[sarasotarepublican]

Hillary's political stock as fallen. Now, if we could only get her defeated we could get the hell rid of her.

[pctech]

I say let her run. No matter who she runs against she's assured of loosing. She's too polarizing of a person, even more so then Kerry, to ever get elected to the White House. In addition, with her running for President the GOP would be assured of gaining even more senate and congressional seats. It's called reverse pyschology.

[Manfred Dog]

It looks like Rudy G is going to kick Ms. Clinton out of the Senate in a couple of years. That will put and end to her - If she can't win at home, she can't win on the road.

If the Dems have learned something, look for Evan Byah at the top of the ticket with Barack Obama as VP for the Dems in 08. Byah is centrist enough to pick up a lot of votes in the Midwest and the folks in New England, California, and the mid-Atlantic have no place else to go. With Obama on the ticket, Blacks will turn out in large numbers.

It is not clear to me that the Republicans can field a team to beat that lineup. The biggest question is whether the Dems have the discipline to nominate someone as centrist as Byah. My guess is that they after 8 years of Republican control, they will learn some discipline.

[Hugin]

I doubt Hillary will run for reelection in '06, especially if Rudy runs against her. Losing in NY would be a disaster for her chances for '08. In early '06 she will issue a statement something like "When I ran for Senate in 2000 I promised the people of NY that I would finish out my term. I took that promise seriously. It as been an honor and a privilege to serve the people of NY over the last six years, however I cannot in good conscience make that pledge again. Therefore I will not be running for reelection to the Senate."

That would serve notice to all the other prospective candidates in '08 that she was running, without actually having to annouce it. She would immediately be the presumptive nominee, and begin sucking all the oxygen (and money) from the Democrat party.