Squandering the Advantage

New York Times' snark-mistress Maureen Dowd spends a whole column drawing invidious-to-both comparisons between Donald Trump and Boris Johnson and then, characteristically, finishes with something on-target.

Bill Clinton still has a talent for getting himself — and the wife he supposedly wants to help — in trouble.

Bill’s having a Phoenix airport 30-minute meet-cute with the attorney general in charge of the F.B.I. investigation on Hillary’s emails was a debacle for all three of them.

How could the guy with the gold-plated political instincts not see the problem with trooping across the tarmac to surprise Loretta Lynch with a visit? It’s part of a bizarrely predictable cycle of the Clintons: Just when things seem to be going well, they squander the advantage.

"I am just flabbergasted by it,” Trump said. “I think it’s amazing. I’ve never seen anything like that before.”

For once, he may not be exaggerating.

The issue is lack of character. Wanna bet Bill offered Lynch a Supreme Court appointment? I wouldn't take the other side of that bet. Not that we'll ever be certain ....