I really don't get the GOP's gameplan here. What's the point of blasting HRC now, when we're still a year away from the general election? Don't they realize that the anti-HRC rhetoric will get old and tired just like Rudi's 9-11 repetitious harping became stale after a few months on the campaign trail? You would think that they would hold back on the HRC hate until say July or August. I'm curious as to what type of atrocity they will come up with during the RNC convention in Minneapolis next year. Instead of purple band-aids, something misogynist that deals with HRC's anatomy in some way?

You can tell that these candidates haven't thought through their GE strategy very well. It's in sharp contrast to the Bush/Rove crew who had a strategy to appeal to soccer moms, Latinos and even a few AA w/the faith based programs. Have any of them even thought of trying to appeal to voters other than white males in the general? I just don't see it based upon what they're saying in these debates.....

Excellent diary. Did you read today's WSJ. It's quite interesting.
Latest Biography of Clintons
Tests Public's 'Fatigue' Levels

Critics of Bill and Hillary Clinton talk of the public's "Clinton fatigue" to argue against electing the New York senator to the White House. Now another biography about the couple will test whether Americans actually suffer from "Clinton book fatigue."

Next week, Random House will release "For Love of Politics" by best-selling author Sally Bedell Smith, covering the Clintons' White House years -- rather, their marriage during the White House years. The major policies in which both Clintons played roles -- budget-balancing and welfare reform, the North American Free Trade Agreement, post-Cold War foreign policies and even the health-care debacle that Mrs. Clinton led -- are mainly background noise in a re-telling of the financial and sexual scandals that followed the couple from Arkansas to Washington.

But sex and scandal sells. Or does it? "For Love of Politics," which The Wall Street Journal obtained in a bookstore not far from the White House ahead of its release date, follows two other much-anticipated biographies of Mrs. Clinton released last summer. "A Woman in Charge," by Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, has sold about 57,000 of the reported 275,000 copies that Alfred A. Knopf printed, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 75% of the book market. "Her Way," by New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Atta, has sold about 19,000, Nielsen estimates; Little, Brown and Co. reportedly printed 175,000.

The two earlier biographies revealed little that was new. The same can be said of "For Love of Politics" by Ms. Smith, who has written books on John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Diana, Pamela Harriman and William S. Paley. More than Messrs. Bernstein, Gerth and Van Atta, she relies on previous books about the Clintons, including their autobiographies, to tell her version in breezy style.

It's so true that many voters are kind of intrigued and captivated by the idea of the first woman president and seeing this kind of history in their lifetime. I hear this especially from voters who aren't following things that closely and don't even have policy reasons for their choices. Heck, I even occasionally find myself thinking like this, althoguh I think John Edwards would be a far better president. Unlike some progressives though, I don't see Hillary as a disaster -- as long as we elect more progressives to congress and congress steps up and reassumes its role as an equal partner with the executive branch. I think HIllary would find it hard to resist the progressive initiatives favoured by -- sorry, Mitty and Rudy -- a majority of the American voters.

What I predicted three years ago is happening. It's impossible to smear Hillary any more than they already have for the past 15 years without looking like a lunatic. After you've accused her of murdering someone, where do you go without sounding deranged?

The writing in these just keep getting worse and worse.  

No wonder these books are cratering. What else is there to say? The irony of their bashing Hill and Bill and Al so much is that there just isn't anything that surprises or shocks anyone anymore about them. I mean, cookbooks stir much more of a reaction than the 10,000th "Clinton Scandal". And there's nothing new, or they wouldn't spend so much time on the Clinton's time in the White House or Arkansas. And since nothing they have said about them has ever led to even so much as an arrest, there is little practical chance these charges would lead to as much as a speedbump in the Clinton  campaign.

Hillary spokesman Phil Singer reacts: "We can understand why they're all so angry: as Chris Wallace made clear, Hillary is beating each of them"

BTW, check out Multiple Choice Massachusetts Mitt in the photo of the eight dwarfs. One thing I've noticed about him is that he is always posing. In any group photo, the other dwarfs are talking to each other or at least appearing to be semi-human. Not multiple choice Mitt. He is invariably striking a pose.

I think I'll start calling him Zoolander.

Question-- Hillary's pollster Penn says women, including Repubs and Indies, will vote for Clinton in droves next fall, thus electing her. But what if the GOP actually nominates a woman for veep? Doesn't that negate his big plan? I assume he has planned for that liklihood?

Romney - Hutchinson?

Stephen Colbert is going to ruin Obama's chances in South Carolina.

then Republicans are toast in 2008. Hillary, the presumed nominee, could win with over 400 electoral votes. These guys are insane. The whole bash Hillary crowd looks demented, and they'll turn a lot independents to her. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually a good number of Republican women end up voting for her.