[Rick Lee]

What does Hillary have? The two most important assets she has are 100% name recognition and a husband who could have talked Oedipus into leaving home. He is a cash cow and there's no better fundraiser in the world. Another asset of Hillary's is that there is NOTHING she will not do to get what she wants. While admirable in most people, it's scary in politicians. She has a safe Senate seat and a spot on Sen. Armed Services, which allows her to point to this or that small acto of pandering to insulate her from chanrges of being anti-military. A tiger doesn't change its stripes, but a lot of young folks will be voting age in 2008 who don't remember the early Clinton days. They will believe her bs. Look at her recent attempt to ban flag burning!!!! That's the ultimate chutzpah/pandering. She'd make Al Gore blush. She has all of Hollywood firmly behind her, she will have unlimited money, she'll have the news media on her side, she'll have the woman-scorned sympathy card to play and she is RUTHLESS.

What irks me is that Hillary has never ever once faced a tough question. When she started running for Senate, everyone said how the NY press would eat her alive. She never got a tough question. She doesn't hold press conferences now either and no one ever calls her on it. I've seen Rumsfeld make her look foolish when she was questioning him once, but that's about it. All the Republicans in the Senate fall all over each other saying how nice, smart, effective, blah blah she is. I can't wait to see her use some of that footage in a commercial. She has a LOT going for her. Don't (in Bush's inimitable words) "misunderestimate" her.