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Ummmnnnhhh..Alex: did you ever hear of George Allen?

Tancredo's going nowhere, period. He's a one-issue candidate and MAY take Western primaries. Noplace else.

HRC's unpopularity is significant--but besides that, the last US Senator to win the Presidency was JFK--bought and paid for, fair and square. You'd have to go back another several elections to find another US Senator who became Pres.

Rudy has exactly one feather: he did a good job with NYC in the clean-up mode after 9/11. (And before 9/11.) Aside from LEO and anti-terrorism credits, Rudy has nothing in his bag.

Three sitting senators have been elected president. JFK was the last of these and, popular myths notwithstanding, he was in over his head. Lots of profile and no courage. If he did not start the Demonratic tradition of "shoot your mouth off and deliver squat," he certainly helped perfect the method.

The last before JFK was Warren Gamaliel Harding, a one term-US Senator who intended to retire when the mandate of heaven fell upon his noble but somewhat challenged head. I like him anyway but the Democrats were distracted by deciding which Klan guy should be nominated by them. He was much too oriented toward disarmament and internationalist schemes of that sort but he was a very decent guy.

The other was clueless Benjamin Harrison of Indiana. The following should suffice as a description: On the morning after the election of Harrison, the senator went to the office of his campaign manager, Matt Quay, and said to Quay: Matt, thank God we won the election (which was razor close). Quay responded: Benjamin: God had nothing to do with it. We bought every vote you got.

In nearly 220 years, less than 50 Americans have been president. Rudy will get over his disappointment somehow. I also believe that no NYC mayor has been elected to higher office as governor, senator, president or whatever. I am not certain of this but, if I am wrong, darn few have moved up.

Tancredo is about as serious a figure as Liberty Bell Lemke or Harold Stassen was.