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For this reason and many others, not the least of which is unconfined megalomania, Hillary! will run for President in 2004.

No argument from me there.

She will announce this week. I stand by my tag-line.

You lose me there. There's no way she can go a full year without having to answer at least some questions, and no way she can go a full year without being caught in some moment that isn't totally choreographed, controlled and rehearsed by her handlers. Anytime Hillary is caught in an unscripted moment, it has disastrous results for her.

The only way she can hope to have a chance is to set up her nomination from the floor at a "brokered" DNC convention (I put brokered in quotes because this, while appearing to be a grassroots "Save us Hillary!" move, will be as carefully calculated and rehearsed as anything else she does). The last minute insertion of Frank Lautenberg in the 2002 NJ Senate race showed the Rats that, for them at least, the election "laws" are merely suggestions.

By going the brokered convention route, she's only a "candidate" for a little over a month. Again, this is a sham. She's really a candidate right now, but since the media's pretending she isn't they can avoid giving her the candidate treatment.

Even with all that, I still don't think she can beat Bush. But she can certainly delude herself into thinking she can.

The reason I picked tomorrow for her announcement is that it is pretty much the last day she can get in to go the conventional primary election route. With Dean running so strong, I think the chances of a brokered convention without Hillary! in the primaries is pretty slim. Dean will have the vast majority of elected delegates. Unless the 'Rats want to throw all of the superdelegates to someone else, Dean will win the convention vote on the first ballot.

And if the 'Rats cut the legs out from Dean by voting the superdelegates in a block against him, especially if they do so in favor of a Clinton, it will signal the beginning of the final destruction of the Democratic Party. Not a bad outcome, that...

I don't think Hillary would have to wait till the convention to step into the election. All the other candidates entered much to soon. Even if Hillary waited until March it wouldn't be too late. I think she might enter the election sometime in spring. She's letting all the others hang themselves. This is all being orchastrated. It's no surprise to me. The top brass of the party are in control, and they belong to the Clintons.