Our old friend David Frum announces he voted for Hillary Clinton and tries to argue “the conservative case for Hillary Clinton.” The conservative case against Trump is obvious, but the case for Clinton is much more difficult, and at certain points, Frum seems to take leave of his senses:

But she is a patriot. She will uphold the sovereignty and independence of the United States. She will defend allies. She will execute the laws with reasonable impartiality. She may bend some rules for her own and her supporters’ advantage. She will not outright defy legality altogether. Above all, she can govern herself; the first indispensable qualification for governing others.

As they say on ESPN’s NFL Live, “come on, man!”

The private server, her e-mails with classified information, and the cash-and-favor-trading at the Clinton Foundation demonstrate she’ll do a lot more than bend the rules; she’ll just ignore them when they’re inconvenient. She and her team are out taking a rhetorical flamethrower to FBI Director James Comey for daring to suggest she may not be legally cleared, and they’re on their way to turning him into the next Ken Starr. There’s a very clear pattern to the Clintons when it comes to “defying legality.” Every lawman who has ever crossed the Clintons gets publicly demonized; every staffer who tries to warn her it’s a bad idea gets ignored. The fanatical loyalists who never doubt her or cross her and praise her every move stick around: Sid Blumenthal, David Brock, Phillippe Reines.

She can govern herself? How’s she doing in controlling that greed? She really needed the full $225,000 for all of those speaking engagements, right? Had to make those public universities pay the full fee!

How’s she doing in governing that hunger for power? Clinton pledged, “If Congress keeps failing to act on comprehensive immigration reform, Hillary will enact a simple system for those with sympathetic cases.” In other words, rewriting the law unilaterally through executive orders. She’s talked about executive orders on college debt repayment, guns, carbon emissions and doesn’t think she needs Congressional approval for military action like Libya.

How’s she doing governing those impulses for vindictiveness and revenge? Recall she doesn’t merely have an enemies list; according to the reporting of Politico, she and her staff have an enemies Excel Spreadsheet, with seven levels of loyalty and disloyalty, an organized system of retribution and punishment that Dante would salute.

Making the conservative case for Trump is difficult. Making the conservative case for Hillary is impossible.