Look, I never trusted Kathleen Kane after I found out that she was was palling around with Carly Fiorina and plotting to undermine Barack Obama’s nomination and campaign for the presidency.
You have to go back to August 2008, after Hillary had conceded but before the convention in Denver. One of Hillary’s brothers was in no mood to give up.
Tony Rodham, who held a fundraising event for Mrs Clinton in Pennsylvania when she was battling against Mr Obama in the Democratic primaries, met Carly Fiorina, Mr McCain’s senior economic adviser, in the state.
Miss Fiorina was taking part in a two-day Pennsylvania bus tour designed to woo disenchanted Clinton supporters into the McCain camp. His wife Megan and their two children also attended the meeting at the home of Jamie Brazil, a long-time Clinton family friend.
So, Hillary’s brother met with Fiorina at the home of a Clinton family friend. What happened next?
Some at the Pennsylvania meeting seemed to hold out hope that Mrs Clinton could emerge as the party’s nominee in what would amount to a coup at the Denver convention. Mrs Clinton, however, has insisted this cannot happen.
Kathleen Granahan Kane, who coordinated Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign in north-east Pennsylvania and was at the meeting Mr Rodham attended told the Scranton Times-Tribune she might support Mr McCain. “I don’t know,” she said.
“I’m not sure. I’m trying to get as much information as I can on both of them. I would have loved to see her as president. We still have a week to go. You never know what’s going to happen at the convention.” She added that Mrs. Clinton “would be a fantastic choice” for vice-president – a move Mr Obama appears to have ruled out.
I’ve got no problem with people having supported Clinton in 2008. I even understand if it took a little time to get over the butt-hurt of seeing her lose the nomination.
But this was a different kind of thing. This was a bunch of people very close to the Clintons having a private meeting with Carly Fiorina to discuss ways to get disaffected Clinton supporters to support John McCain.
There’s no indication that the meeting was sanctioned or approved by Hillary or Bill, but it made me doubt Kathleen Kane’s judgment and her loyalty. I remembered this when she became a candidate for Attorney General and I was highly skeptical that she was the right person for the job.
But even I could never imagine her capacity for poor judgment, criminal acts, avoidance of responsibility, and limitless spite.
She’s exposed some things that needed to be exposed, but only to deflect blame and attention from herself, and to intimidate anyone who might consider messing with her.
She’s a disgrace.
