<p>The 2004 elections are scarcely off the lips and minds of the more informed of the populace, and the New Year is not here, yet the minds of many have already turned to 2008, where the figure of Hillary Clinton looms large on the horizon, to the Republicans a socialist specter and the Democrats a saving seraph come to redeem their party from oblivion. Already, the wretched partisans of the GOP have begun the drumbeat for the coronation of John McCain or Rudy Guiliani, the only men, they assure us, who have a prayer of beating Hillary. Coming in a close third, Jeb Bush can easily visualize himself as the third Bush to take his seat in the Oval Office. These are the men, the party hacks claim, alone can beat Clinton. Yet, let us consider these two men closer, in the light of sound, learned, reason. BetWWTS.com is offering odds of 1/5 on Rudy Guiliani and 7/1 on John McCain. John McCain, four years from now, will be seventy-two, Rudy Guiliani, in 2008 will be sixty-four. Neither of these men is particularly healthy, and both have a history of cancer. The reader may well say, so did John Kerry. Yes, Kerry had a decided history of prostate cancer, a fact that received scant attention from the mainstream media. In 2008, both men's personal health will be under the intense scrutiny of the leftwing media. Moreover, both these men have Achilles heels, of a diverse, but equally dangerous nature.</p>
