That will determine things; the idiot factor. There is no short supply of people who can be swayed by someone, who has never done a day's hard manual labor in his/her life, voting for some slick weasel claiming to be for "the common man." As long as she gets out there and spews her old "for the children" garbage, she will have no shortage of useful idiots hanging on her every word.
And therein lies the rub.
Hillary is formidable because she allows an entire electorate full of useful idiots to suspend disbelief.
Anyhoo, this is a repost of a Dowd article that was printed earlier this week.
It rests on one faulty, but critical assumption.
It presumes that Bush will practice extremist politics. I don't think that Bush is stupid enough to make that mistake, nor is Rove. Of course, for Dowd, even Arlen Specter is a "reactionary". One can see how Dowd might think that, however, as she tends to move in circles that talk with each other and agree with each other.
Of course, my friend Granite State Conservative and I have figured out that Rove and Bush have something extra special planned for Hillary come 2004, so I try not to worry about Hillary as much as some on this board do.
Be Seeing You,
Chris