[DannyTN]

I've been projecting that the Rats would engage in a very dirty campaign even if it tarnished their own candidate in the process. And then at the last minute if they aren't winning in the poles, they will substitute somebody who has managed to stay above the fray.

Hillary will be the substitute if polls say she can win. if not they will substitute someone else.

[piasa]

Perhaps Hillary is getting lots of cash from overseas book sales. sort of a global Jim Wright scam.

And Clinton is panhandling in Europe too, and knowing the European far left, they are putting as much cash as possible into the Clinton coffers in the hopes of getting their plant into the white house in order insure that the US is brought down a notch.

[mabelkitty]

When BJ was up for impeachment, I don't remember seeing gloating and screaming Republicans calling for his head. I remember seeing pensive, deliberate, and reasoned communication.

They knew any other reaction would be a bloody election debacle.

Democrats seem to have forgotten what happens to people who take on a popular President - with glee, no less.

[kcar]

What if this scorched earth strategery is just the until the summer of '04, with everyone on attack unitl then, when it's discovered that none of the Rats can win the nod, so, Hillary is drafted. In she strides, taking the nomination reluctantly without engaging in any mudslinging, at other Rats or at Bush, and takes her party on a more stately civil course. The Media extols her for returning civility to politics, something they thought Bush had wanted to do but evidently failed, and she is swept into history.