I think alot of us underestimate Hillary. Maybe on the blog's and forum's she is seen as one of the most polarizing figures in American politics. But to the average voter Hillary is just a former first lady now serving in the U.S. Senate. The average voter doesnt sit around all day thinking about candidates like most of us.
While I agree with your last statement, I don't agree overall. I think that Hillary Clinton is a very polarizing figure, and she starts out with a fairly high percentage of people who won't vote for her under any circumstances.
I do think she has a shot at winning, under the right circumstances. But this b_tch has a lot of baggage. She is already well-known, so it will be harder for her to "reinvent" herself than it would be for the average candidate who is not as well known. Her strongest support is on the lunatic fringe of her party (which to be honest is a good portion of the primary voters, at the very least), but she risks some of that support with her well-publicized move to the center. That shrewish Senator from the opposite coast, Barbara Boxer, is a threat to her if she moves too much to the center, and could claim Hillary's place as the darling of every crazed feminazi and left-wing nutcase.
Then there's her husband. Nobody seems to know where he really stands. He could be a great asset to her, or a tremendous liability. This cold, calculating woman probably wishes for her husband to die not too long before the election, because a president's death tends to produce a period of nostalgia for his administration, in which the good rather than the bad is emphasized. But if he dies too long before the election, this effect fades. I have argued that I think his place in history is going to decline as time goes by, and this could affect his wife's bid for the presidency adversely.
On the other hand, Slick Willie has great political skills, one that his more brittle and doctrinaire wife may very well need if she decides to make the run. Still, Bill Clinton has not been a great asset to those for whom he has campaigned since leaving the presidency, and he really can't help her where she needs it the most. He'd be best for exciting the Democratic base, something that Hillary herself does quite well.
I think a victory by Hillary Clinton would be a national tragedy of the first order. She is a shrill, arrogant feminazi with a victim mentality. She has never really changed her crazy radical ideas, just hid them better. She is an egomaniac, who believes she is owed the presidency as payback for tolerating her husband's philandering for 30 years.
She will most likely be re-elected to the Senate by New York voters, who are not the swiftest, or the sharpest tools in the shed. Whether the American people on the whole are stupid enough to put her in the White House remains to be seen.
