Clinton would’ve fired Comey, too

Democrats seem to have a love-hate-love-hate-love relationship with former FBI director James Comey.

When Comey opened the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s basement email server, he become persona non grata in the Clinton camp.

Then fast-forward to July 2016, when Director Comey announced that he would not prosecute Clinton. Suddenly, Comey was like the prodigal son who had come home. Democrats heaped praise on him for his courage to do the right thing.

But like most summer romances, this one was headed toward a hard breakup come fall. On Oct. 28, Comey announced that he had reopened the investigation into the Clinton email scandal and, again, Clinton supporters were crying foul. As recently as May 2, USA TODAY reported that Mrs. Clinton was publicly blaming Comey for her loss to nowPresident Trump.

Now just a week later, Democrats and the press can find nothing but glowing superlatives to heap on the former director. Does anyone think that if Hillary Clinton had been elected last fall that she would not have dismissed Comey from his post? And she likely would have fired him much sooner.

Meanwhile, the premise that the Russian government cast votes for millions of Americans is preposterous.

Did the Russians advise the Clinton campaign to ignore Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin? Did the Russians advise the Clinton campaign to spend resources in red states they had no real chance of winning, such as Texas and Arizona? Did the Russians advise the Clinton campaign to ignore the advice of former president Bill Clinton, who urged his wife’s team to focus more on the everyday challenges of blue-collar Americans?

I believe if a psychologist were examining most Democrats and many in the news media, he or she might come to the conclusion they are going through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

It’s clear, we are still a long way from the last step on that list.