More on Hillary

When Hillary Clinton ran for the US Senate (what's a nice girl from Park Ridge doing in New York anyway?) it was always her intention to run for the presidency in 2008. Problem is, eight years is a long time in politics now. Too long. It's not like back in the day (not my day, but someone's- you know who you are) when Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential race to John Kennedy and his California gubernatorial bid (how often do I get to use a word like "gubernatorial"?) in 1962, only to return triumphantly to the national stage in 1968. In an age when Internet sources can answer all your questions quicker than you can ask them, eight years is an eternity. She should have run in 2004. She could have, I'll bet, beaten John Kerry in the primaries. It did not dawn on Clinton that there are so many unforseeable things that can occur, like a slick talking young man striking the young voters fancy, that it's better to act sooner rather than later. Mike Huckabee continues to run an unwinnable race not because he thinks he can win in 2008, but because he thinks he can launch his winning campaign now for the race in four years. Four years, not eight. The time for Hillary was 2004. The time for Hillary has come and gone.