[50sDad]

Smokescreen!

[302damnfast]

Paul Bedard's "Washington Whispers" column in the latest edition of U.S. news reports that ". . . some friends and allies advise against placing bets that the former first lady will be the nation's 44th president."

I'd advise against making those bets whether she runs or not.

[nina0113]

". . . some friends and allies advise against placing bets that the former first lady will be the nation's 44th president." [emphasis added]

No, please...bet the house!

[zygoat]

She just wants to be begged. Sort of like the atheletes and musicians who retire and unretire.

[Blueflag]

oh geesh. 4 years of this "it's all about me" crap. I really don't care about Hillary as a candidate right now.

Watch what they do, not what they say. <-- Ronald Reagan

[MisterRepublican]

[martin_fierro]

Trial Balloon.

[anniegetyourgun]

She's running.

[cynicom]

A "not running" statement gets MSM air time. Just another way to keep the EVIL ones name in public eye.

[Barney59]

f a candidate doesn't make clear their intentions early, they risk losing the party's movers and shakers to early runners.

That's what she's up to... Lie low and try again in a few years...

[Just mythoughts]

There is no way this former co-president is not running.

Just as she was co-president, never accountable for HER decisions, is the same manner in which she will run for president.

The 'stealth' candidate, who is too important to trudge through the frozen fields of Iowa and New Hampshire for a third time, awaits that prime opportunity to strike. She is like a snake, hissing her poison upon the masses, constricting her fellow liberals, shedding her skin transforming herself into a shining new slithering serpent.

No she is not the devil but she sure has perfected his method of operation.

[jws3sticks]

[FearlessRightwinger]

She better run!!!
Dick Morris is counting on her to boost his career!!!

[thecanuck]

I agree she will run but I could see a scenario where if she did not think she could win she would hold back. A humiliating loss would end the Clintons' stranglehold on the Democratic party. Not running could leave them in ultimate power as puppet masters but they would have to keep their need for public attention in check (which is not very likely at all)

[TommyDale]

Something tells me that they have seen something in the internal polling statistics that we haven't heard yet. In all liklihood, she is just not polling well anywhere except for a few blue states. Her advisors (read: Bill) may see that she would likely lose in a Presidential race, and would be more effective as the "chief obstructionist" in the Senate. Of course, if Rudy Giuliani or some other liberal Republican runs against her for Senate in 2006, she is just as likely to lose that seat.

[processing please hold]

She can run but she won't win.

America is not yet ready for a female president. Nor for a black president.

The day will come when it won't matter wether they're male or female, black or white.

But not yet.

[Pharmboy]

This may very well be true. After all, she is no risk-taker: she had her positive internal polls before she committed to run for the Senate in NY. She saw what happened to Ketchup Boy and I'm sure she has early national polling data on her chances. Evil though she is, she's not stupid. There's not one red state she can win, and she even might give a blue state or two over to the pubbies if they ran a strong candidate.

Lookit: 1) she's found a nice, soft spot in the Senate where she has a chance to grow into a stateswoman-kind of position for the dems; 2) she does not have to face a grueling campaign (first against other demonrats which could be brutal and then against a pubbie); and 3) just mebbe--deep down inside--she really wants to deny that old horn dawg she's hitched to another chance to walk around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in his boxers.

[TomGuy]

Naturally, she's going to say she isn't running....not until AFTER her 2006 Senate election. She has to re-win that or she loses her political platform.

Then, about a year into that term, she will be changing her mind...to save her Party....to save America from the mean ole Republicans....to save the World.....to save the Universe and beyond.....

[Rummyfan]

She's running, she's not running, who cares? When and if she does run she must be defeated and defeated soundly! Only then will we be rid of this political scourge known as the Clintons.

[finnigan2]

If I had a dollar for every, " she will run/ she won't run" article that will be published over the next four years, I could die a rich man.
If you want to keep your sanity, learn now to not read these PR pieces designed only to keep people talking about her.