Do you really believe that the Activist wing of the Democratic Party gives a rat's ass about Hillary's past?
With all due respect, have you been watching Bob Torricelli wake up with a horse's head at the foot of his bed?
This outfit is virtually a criminal organization. The DNC looks at the law the way a mugger looks at an old lady with a handbag: as a challenge.
Hillary is, as we speak, doing the only thing that counts for Democrats: she's raising money and banking her IOU's. Behind the scenes, she will be doing ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING to make sure that Bush is reelected in 2008. She will even vote for him in the privacy of her voting booth in New York. So will Bubba, btw. She cannot afford to have some young Turk like Evan Bayh, John Edwards, or even an older Turk like John Kerry, enter the White House in 2004. That would put paid to her ambitions.
When you see smarmy stories come out about the Democratic frontrunner in the late spring of 2004, don't even for a moment believe that Bush's people were behind it.
She's doing all the right things within the context of the Democratic nominating process. The Republican process is more "up through the ranks", and tends to produce better people. Condi will get a promotion in 2004 to VP. Hillary will still help the Bushies in private, figuring that she can take Rice in 2008. She will be proven desperately wrong.
Be Seeing You,
Chris