Despite Trump’s Warts, Fear Hillary

As Donald Trump continues his string of controversial utterances, polite types in the GOP Establishment are clenching their stress balls. Some voters, even Republicans, are reportedly considering the “safer” alternative of Hillary Clinton.

One thing is crystal clear, and it should cause voters to question whether they are fleeing to much more dangerous ground with Hillary: the actual records of Clinton and Trump.

But talk is talk. Trump says a lot of things for effect and to snag free media. Sometimes he’s having some fun or being sarcastic, and the ponderous politically correct, whose language policing doesn’t allow for subtlety, takes him literally.

But one thing is crystal clear, and it should cause voters to question whether they are fleeing to much more dangerous ground with Hillary: the actual records of Clinton and Trump. That is, what they did — not what they said. And a look at Hillary Clinton’s performance as secretary of state should prompt grave concern and even fear about her judgment and temperament.

The New York Times reported last week that women in particular — and even Republican women — were fleeing from Trump over concern that he is a “menace to national security” and emotionally unbalanced.

“Alarm over Mr. Trump’s temperament crosses demographic lines,” the article states.

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But what those cowering at the thought of Trump at the helm of the U.S. government fail to account for is that he, unlike Clinton, is a supremely accomplished person who has succeeded in numerous high-pressure arenas, often several at the same time.

Voters need to listen to Trump with their eyes, not their ears.

Trump may not worth the $10 billion he claims. But Bloomberg pegs him at $3 billion and Fortune puts it at $3.9 billion and rising.

One doesn’t go careening into $3 or $4 billion. It takes discipline, intelligence, imagination, perseverance — and yes, a sense of responsibility and good judgment.

Trump has presided over a multi-billion dollar empire, no doubt learning how to make informed decisions, hire the right people, and delegate authority — all paramount qualities required of a president. He has succeeded not just in real estate, but written several best-selling books and hosted a hit TV show. And he has raised some formidable children.

True, he’s been near bankruptcy, but his successes far outweigh his failures, and successful entrepreneurs are expected to face risk and stumbles along the way.

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Clinton is accused of having no serious accomplishments to speak of as secretary of state. This is correct — but in fact, her performance was actually something less than zero. She made bad mistakes that, yes, question whether she is temperamentally suited to be president of the United States.

The Obama administration, with Hillary Clinton at the helm of its foreign policy apparatus, failed at its most basic task: to defend and protect the United States.

Instead of leaving thousands of troops in Iraq to safeguard the peace, as his military advisers advocated, President Barack Obama decided to bring all the combat troops home. Clinton sought to justify the decision, noting that the United States would continue to provide a “support and training mission.”

This turned out to be a fatal miscalculation that created a power vacuum in Iraq that lead directly to the rise of ISIS, which threatens to kill thousands of Americans before it is finally finished off — if it is finished off.

Mrs. Clinton’s private email server must rank as one of the greatest examples of poor judgment in the history of the office of secretary of state, potentially exposing classified and sensitive information to America’s enemies.

Her irresponsibility may have seriously compromised U.S. national security. Many experts believe the server was probably hacked. And given that we don’t know all of what was in the emails — she destroyed 30,000 of them — or who may have them, the possibility exists that were she elected, the president of the United States could be subject to blackmail.

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The latest emails released blow the lid off a pay-to-play operation that saw contributors to the Clinton Foundation getting preferred treatment at Foggy Bottom. That is, the needs of wealthy foreigners with unknown agendas were placed ahead of the American people at Hillary Clinton’s Department of State.

Clinton was one of the leading advocates for killing off Muammar Qadaffi, whose opponents promptly failed to install a Jeffersonian democracy. The administration never succeeded in rebuilding the shattered country, resulting in a chaotic state that has provided yet another home for ISIS.

In Benghazi, repeated requests for enhanced security at the U.S. special mission there were ignored by the State Department Clinton was in charge of. If she didn’t see the requests, as she has claimed, she should have had a system in place where security issues in the most insecure places would come to her attention.

During the evening of the attack, nothing we know of was done to aid those who came under siege at a CIA annex even many hours after the initial assault on the special mission compound. Where was Hillary?

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In all, the administration’s handling of the most critical challenge it faced, the Arab Spring, was a disaster, with a brutal regime installed in Egypt, hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Syria, and mayhem reigning in other parts of the region. Meantime, the Afghanistan war the administration was supposed to end drags on, the “reset” with Russia became an antagonistic relationship, and China has grown increasingly aggressive and belligerent.

Compared to Trump, Hillary sounds measured and responsible when she speaks. But her actions have helped land the United States in the dangerous place were it now resides.

Hillary, as president, would be responsible for saving us — from war, from terrorism, from rising enemies, and from chaos.

Given that she put us where we are in the first place, that should be a very, very scary thought.