Howard Fineman

speculates on the Clinton factor in next year's elections:

"The race to challenge an incumbent president always begins in the shadows, but the Democrats face special problems this time. They are sandwiched between two powerful forces. One, of course, is George W. Bush, a 'wartime' president willing to use all the ships at sea--or at least one aircraft carrier--to underscore his popularity as the commander in chief in the global fight against terrorism. The other is the Clintons. They remain reviled figures in some quarters [in the brainwashed, far right sector, my dear Howard]. But they are admired, especially by Democrats, as architects of what, increasingly, look like the 'good old days' of the American economy. Indeed, if the Democrats are going to beat Bush [and if it is a fair election], they'll have to brag about Clinton's economic record. That, in turn, means bringing the man himself--in all his controversial dimensions [such as--oh, you mean all of the fabrications created by the Republicans to destabilize his presidency?]--back onto the stage in 2004."

Fineman is back to his whoring himself again. I say, bring it on. Let Clinton "be" the issue and open the Republican Party wide open to the fact they undermined his presidency and attempted Coup I, which was the prelude to the successful Coup II of 2000. The Democrats should fling the shit in their worthless faces, bring up the Bush family's at least silent approval to the eight-year harassment, go the whole nine yards. There should be NO apologies by Democrats about Clinton, ever. No qualifiers, like John Edwards tried to do a while back.

I go further than that. Gore should be at center stage as a constant reminder as to the grievous wrong that was done to the country when the presidency was stolen from the American people by a criminal USSC. Man, it would make for great theater, wouldn't it?

The Democrats have absolutely nothing to lose by retaliating. The Republicans have played dirty long enough; the Democrats should match them mudball by mudball.