I still like the other story that she decided to run for Senate as a way to get over his screwing around on her. Do you buy that one?
Indeed, Hillary Clinton has been dealing with questions about her husband's fidelity since before their marriage, when she drove to Fayetteville in 1974 to help him campaign for a congressional seat and, one campaign aide recalled, he often found himself shooing an Arkansas woman out the back door when Hillary was coming in the front.
In his book about the 1992 presidential campaign campaign, Carville recounts being delegated the unhappy task of having to inform Hillary Clinton about the tabloid allegations involving her husband and Gennifer Flowers. Hillary Clinton's first response when she returned his emergency phone call, Carville writes, was simply to inquire, "How is Bill?"
Reports at the time had Hillary Clinton asking another, equally critical question: "Is the mainstream press asking about this?"