The Fallback (Mark Warner Trying to be the UnHillary)

If you harbor serious thoughts of running for the presidency, the first thing you do — long before you commission any polls or make any ads, years before you charter planes to take you back and forth between Iowa and New Hampshire — is to sit down with guys like Chris Korge. A real-estate developer in Coral Gables, outside Miami, Korge is one of the Democratic Party's most proficient "bundlers." That is, in the last two presidential elections, he bundled together more than $7 million in campaign checks for Al Gore and John Kerry from his friends and contacts.

Okay, we had FUn with the bizarre PHOTO of Mark Warner's big dentured face on the cover of the New York Times Magazine so now here's the actual story article.

A real-estate developer in Coral Gables, outside Miami, Korge is one of the Democratic Party's most proficient "bundlers."

Chris Korge aka Korge the Borg, a big devious manipulator/fixer in South Florida.

the first several questions were not about taxes or schools or health care, but about gay marriage (which he's against), the death penalty (which he's for) and abortion (he's in favor of parental notification but vetoed a bill banning all late-term abortions).

These positions are pretty much DEAL KILLERS for Warner getting the Democrat nomination.

I watched him string together a disconnected, banal series of observations — the Sunnis need to be involved, the military should be seen as problem-solvers rather than as occupiers and so on — while continually looking down and pausing, as if he were trying to recall a briefing paper.

"Must...remember...my...talking...points."

To be a successful insurgent in 2008, a candidate probably needs a serious following online. The activists in the so-called Netroots, people who connect to politics primarily through MoveOn.org and the liberal blogs, will be even more populous and more motivated than in 2004, and while it's impossible to generalize, it seems that most of the Netroots are eager to find a candidate who isn't Hillary Clinton.

Netroots? I prefer the term, "Nutroots."

The Nutroots want a whacked out candidate who's for dismantling the American military, higher taxes, and government cradle to grave care of every person in this country - AKA socialism. Warner doesn't stand a chance with that crowd.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

Hillary wants all of the things the Nutroots want, so she should be the perfect candidate, except that she can't openly advocate those things until she's elected. The Nutroots don't seem to realize that openly advocating their agenda loses votes.

Hillary will have $100 million headstart on her possible rivals in the primaries. If the Moonbats rally around one candidate pretty soon and get Soros or someone else to contribute generously, they might be able to give Hillary a run for her money, but my guess is that the powers that be within the Democratic Party will regard Hillary as their best bet to regain the White House. Warner and the others will be auditioning for the Vice Presidential place on the ticket.

What is Soros' attitude towards Hillary? Is he likely to finance a serious rival to her?

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