Hillary: Not Just A Clinton of a Different Name

Today, CNN was making a bit of a deal about how, when her name appears as a possible presidential candidate with either Republican nutty fruitcake Senator John McCain or former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani (worse than a nutty fruitcake, a true sell-out of incomparable measure), she does really well.

I'd sure as hell hate to see the 2008 presidential race come down to a choice of Hillary, McCain, or Giuliani. As much as I would like to see a woman in the Oval Office, there are better women than Hillary. She is NOT like Bill and people should not confuse her with "another Clinton". She's as much of a sellout as Giuliani and McCain, although she sells out to different people. With Hillary, somehow a woman's right to choose becomes not so clear.

McCain presents the same problem in 2008 as John Kerry did in 2004. We may honor what each of these Johns stood up to in Vietnam, but does that mean we have to vote for them so many decades later.

Thankfully, the left doesn't need to expend energy denouncing Rudy because the far right will do enough of a hatchet job on him. And not for the right reasons, like Rudy sold out all of NY after 9-11 and tried to force the highly suspect Bernie Kerik on us as head of Department of Homeland (In)Security just to give Rudy more no bid contracts with Washington.

So who would any of you like to see as a serious candidate in '08?

Do any of these three actually interest you and, if so, why?