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Like she said in the interview, alot can change from now to November 2008. She's not exactly my image of the perfect candidate either, but after listening to many of her speeches and watching her in the head-to-head "debates", I already like her chances better than Gore and Kerry. Hillary at least understands from personal history that when the Republican machine starts cranking out myths and lies like "Swift Boat" or "Gore Lies About Creating Internet", that her campaign will hit back and hit back hard. Nothing against those who like Gore here on Salon, but face the fact that his 2000 campaign wimped out against the biggest wimp of all time and Kerry's was even more pathetic at damage control.
It has been said that Republicans know how to win elections but are incompetent at running government, and the opposite often applies to the Dems. So why on earth would anybody not want her to be calculating and prepared? She's not applying for the night janitor job at the local high school. She's going against the most wilfully dishonest coalition of self-serving zealots our country has ever had the dishonor of calling "Fellow Americans". She knows that once the mud starts being thrown(and anybody that thinks the Rebublicans aren't going to resort to lies and dishonest scare tactics and mache faux-tough guy posturing in 2008 is kidding themself) that a Presidential candidate better have a plan to attack them. I'd love to see her standing up in a debate in October of 2008 asking those who have lost thier health-care since 1993 if they think it helped them that Republicans banded together to kill her attempts at universal coverage. It wouldn't surprise me if she did just that.
Anybody out there dreaming of some perfect candidate is doing just that. Nobody is perfect. If she can get 51% of the votes, that's close enough for me because there is absolutely no acceptable Republican candidate for any office.
