As I read your headline, I got a flash of brilliance. (well, maybe it was just a hot flash). Anyway, I finally figured out why I've always thought Hillary will never be president. You and Safire had to beat it into my brain. She won't be president because of the main difference between her and Bill.
"Hillary Is A Congenital Liar"
She screeches out her lies, with shrill venom, with meanness. She over-sells her lies, so desperate is she to destroy her political enemies. Her lies are big ones, accusatory lies peppered with political poison. Hillary wants blood.
Bill Clinton on the other hand, is almost a congenial liar. His lies are those of a little boy, or a rascal, self-preservation lies, and he almost never delivers them in anger. They just seem to roll off his tongue like candy. Bill wants love.
In a national campaign, Hillary's bombastic, acrimonious, wrathful delivery will turn off voters.
You and all of us better HOPE that it turns off voters ........... but, we shall see how often the old/liberal/socialist/Dem. media shows that ugly, acrimonious, and dominant side of her.
I for one, have my doubts that she will be exposed to enough voters!