If she runs, she may lose. But if she does not run, she will never be President. Nothing else matters.
It's becoming clear even to the Clintonistas that '08 is too late. If Howard Dean is the nominee, his first order of business will be to purge Clintonistas from the Democratic Party and fire Terry McAuliffe. Once Dean has consolidated control of the Party, Hillary! will no longer be able to keep herself in the center of attention, and will have to campaign in '08 on her merits, which are just too thin to win.
So if Hillary! is ever to be President, it must be now. She will probably lose to GWB, but you never can tell. Iraq could still go in the toilet, and the economy could still falter. And if she goes down to glorious defeat in '04, she will still have prevented anybody else seizing control of her Party.
For this reason and many others, not the least of which is unconfined megalomania, Hillary! will run for President in 2004. She will announce this week. I stand by my tag-line.
No way. They will have to treat her with kid gloves. She's practically royalty. The media will flay anyone that treats her poorly.