It is clear that the DNC is frantically slinging mud wherever it can, and hoping some of it sticks. Rest assured that the Whitehouse knows all about it, and is actively monitoring these efforts a lot more closely than you may think.
In the balance lies the very real possibility of a presidential bid by Hillary Clinton in '04. No one among her supporters nor her detractors buys her "thrice refused the crown" act for a second. If the Democrats get a toehold, she'll make a "surprise" bid in '04. If not, she'll bide her time until '08, when a new Republican candidate must be fielded (hint: it won't be Cheney).
On this topic, and a growing number of other ones, I'm finding myself to be a reluctant tinfoiler. There are some very powerful interests in conflict here, and the arena is global, not just the field of American politics. There is a lot of foreign money and power being thrown into the fray, because the future of the world is being decided as we speak. The currents of history are running strong and swift through our time.
The hidden hand of the Illuminati? I think not. But the very real influence of the undead Marxist revolution now quaintly styling itself as "progressive world socialism" is a far more pernicious and potent threat to free humanity than anything Adam Weishaupt could have possibly dreamed. The spectacle of the propaganda and track record of the Democratic Party being in lockstep with world socialists is all the proof any reasonable mind requires.
For my part, I am one of the often-derided Libertarians of the Free Republic, but I will be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Republicans in '04 and for the foreseeable future. Why? Because as the great Benjamin Franklin so aptly put it: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately".
The great beast of Marxism is once again raising its diseased and addled head, and it is poised to strike viciously at the heart of America, with even more devastation than the tragic and seductive poison of the New Deal could wreak. I believe it will claim even more victims in this century than the last, with wars and genocide on scales beyond the darkest imagination.
When this war is joined in earnest -- and that day is not far off -- the middle ground will be a killing field. This is not a time to be demure or sophistic, but to keep the powder of freedom dry.