Eleanor Clift gets a scoop...

Can you believe it? Hillary is probably going run for President? That's right, according to the former liberal panelist of "The McLaughlin Group" - who provided a great source of comic relief on that show - the former first lady has her eyes on...get this...the White House. Thanks for the breaking news, Eleanor. I never even considered this possibility. (sarcasm off)

But here's the real thrust of her column. Hillary is crazy like a fox. She's got all the voters fooled. And, damnit, the GOP is getting its panties in a snit over it:

"Keeping company with Hillary is frustrating for the right because she’s proving to be something different from the caricature they made of her. “She’s having a rebirth,” says Marshall Wittmann, a former McCain staffer who’s now with the centrist Democratic Leadership Conference. More than any other Democrat eyeing the presidency, Hillary understands the cultural weakness of the party. Her recent comments on wanting to find common ground on abortion and her appearance at a press conference with such avatars of the right as Santorum and Brownback show she has absorbed the lesson of the ’04 election more systematically than anyone else."

Umm, yeah Eleanor. We're all frustrated that Hillary is masquerading as a "centrist".

The right has been lampooning this "reinvention" tour for weeks. Where have you been? Does she think even the dumbest voter can't see through this charade?

The real problem for Hillary will come in about three years. The Senator from NY believes that if she presents herself as a "moderate" that the whacko MoveOn.org wing of her party will chalk it up to political reality and support her regardless. But they're the only folks who will take this "centrist" talk seriously - and they will try to force her hand. Either she starts spouting the leftist garbage that they want to hear or they back another candidate. The idea that Hillary is "the chosen one" flies in the face of the current movement of the Left to take control of the Democrats.
Poor Hillary. She knows the only chance in winning a general election outflank the moonbats and appear "mainstream". However, the Howard Dean-led pirates are hoisting the Jolly-Roger on the good ship "Democrat" and they have other ideas.

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