Hillary was paid big bucks under the table to push for this one? Just following in the footsteps of the man she replaced, Pat Moynihan, and his colleague from New York, Senator Pothole D'Amato, who in 1986 brought the Senate to a halt over production of the T-46 trainer.
Nevertheless, you can see the path taking shape:
- First two years ignore the constituency because it doesn't matter what they think until re-election while building up IOUs and power within the party (plus moving a negative poll rating to positive is always spun as a huge move for the Klintoons);
- Go on a pork offensive in concert with the release of a "I'm a victim of men" book bringing on a new line of sympathy and increased poll numbers in NY and nationwide;
- Direct the VLWC media minion to begin churning out maturing into the national statesman role just in time to play power broker in the nominating process;
- Capitalize on the election disaster by zooming up as the savior who should have been chosen
or
Capitalize on the election near-miss as the behind the scenes driving force who made a close race out of a sure wipeout, zooming up as the savior who should have been chosen; - Launch another heavy pork offensive just in time for re-election, but showing a lesson learned from a fruitless previous search for a legacy in lameduckland, link the offensive to second term aides of a lame duck President who are looking to build their own legacies;
- Get re-elected by a solid majority with no taint of terrorist pardons, Hasidic pardons, or vote manipulation in NYC;
- Direct the VLWC to conduct the official coronation as savior of the RATs and leading candidate on either side;
- Election to President.
Scary path. Very scary.