NYSun:

Senator Clinton has elicited, from time to time in the past year or so,
a good bit admiration in this space for her stand on the war in Iraq. It
has been admirable not only on the merits but also, in our view,
politically, giving her a chance, with Senator Lieberman, to secure the
right flank of her party, whence her husband rode to the White House.
It’s a trajectory Vice President Gore might have ridden to victory had
he not veered off to the left at the Los Angeles Convention. And it’s a
trajectory we, for one, would very much like to see the Democratic Party
veer back into in the run up to 2008.
All the more disappointing, then, even tragic to see Mrs. Clinton leap
to join Senator Kerry’s call, issued while he was cavorting with the
World Economic Forum in Switzerland, for a filibuster of the nomination
of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court. It was no big disappointment to see
Senator Kennedy hop onto the “bandwagon,” rickety though it may be. And
no one expected any better of Senators Reid and Durbin. But Senator
Clinton has passed on a golden opportunity to take the lead of the
centrist wing of her party, and any later effort she may make to do this
will now be more suspect than before.