It was announced this week that two of the key political consultants involved in the election of Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992 (James Carville and Paul Begala) have signed on to Hillary Clinton’s campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2006. Any doubts about another Clinton quest for the White House in 2008 should be put to rest by that announcement.

Notwithstanding the claims that Carville and Begala are being hired to help her in her Senate bid, everyone knows that Hillary is a shoo-in for re-election this year. Clearly, the Carville/Begala team has been hired to orchestrate a return of the Clintons to the White House – this time, however, with Hillary in charge.

Mrs. Clinton is the current frontrunner for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008. At the same time, however, she is the one Democratic prospect on the horizon at the moment who is able to unite almost all Republicans against her. She is even more unpopular among Republicans than her husband was during his Presidency.

I got to know Bill Clinton when we were both students at Georgetown University. He always struck me as a likeable scoundrel. He reminds me of the travelling salesman played by George C. Scott in the film The Flim-Flam Man. By contrast, Hillary strikes me as a cold-blooded ideologue who bought into the hard left radicalism of the late ‘60s. She would have fit in well with the late 18^th century French Revolutionary crowd, but the idea of her having the enormous powers and responsibility of the Presidency of the United States sure makes me nervous. And, I suspect a lot of Democrats and Independents share my concerns.

Carville and Begala have their work cut out for them.

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