A serious consideration. Hillary and her handlers are acutely aware of the fact that the "world's smartest woman" could never survive a full year of presidential campaigning without suffering "foot in the mouth" disease. She has enough negatives going for her now without taking the additional risk of lengthy public scrutiny and disclosure. Better she sit in the cat bird's seat watching her competition destroy their credibility (with a little help from her friends of course) and descend at the last possible moment as the "savior" by Democratic Party mandate. This is the major reason McCauliff remains at the helm of the DNC.
fuzzthatwuz,
" Better she sit in the cat bird's seat watching her competition destroy their credibility (with a little help from her friends of course) and descend at the last possible moment as the "savior" by Democratic Party mandate"
I've read that prediction here when she first became senator. Too much laundry to tote, that gal. She'll just wear the same old dirty clothes when she casually walks into the convention center at the last possible instant -- expecting palm leaves to be thrown in her path and a 'halleluja' choir to lift her onto a donkey to clip-clop down the isle. I'd bet on it.
The smart move for Hillary is simply to watch the Democrat Party descend into electoral destruction in 2004, and then swoop in and be the savior in the wide-open 2008 race. There is no point for her to enter now just to get beaten.
Of course that requires Hillary to bide her time, and she may not be psychologically able to do it.