Depending on how you feel about the candidate (and everybody seems to feel strongly one way or the other), there is either far-sighted prudence or incredible arrogance in what Hillary Clinton’s most ardent backers have been doing this weekend.
Buoyed by favorable fund-raising and poll numbers, they are debating in detail her running mate for ’08. After ticking off the pluses and minuses of the most obvious contenders, they have decided that Hillary’s Al Gore should be a choice from out of left (or more precisely) center field. A lifetime supply of Clinton campaign buttons to anyone who guesses right.