Dick Morris has a column about how Pirro is going to give Clinton “a real fight.” The fact that he refers to Pirro as “Jeanine” does not improve his credibility in my view. I think John Podhoretz’s succinct take is closer to the mark: “Can Hillary Clinton be defeated in her race for Senate next year by the newly announced Jeanine Pirro, the gentlemanly Ed Cox or anybody else? The answer is no.” (Registrations required for both columns.)

Podhoretz goes on to argue that Clinton shouldn’t run again since senators tend not to win the presidency. He notes that the last time a sitting senator became president was in 1960. And 1960, I would add, does not quite disprove the rule that senators do poorly, because Kennedy was running against another category of lousy presidential candidates: sitting vice presidents. If Hillary Clinton runs from the Senate, her best hope may be lucking out and running against someone else who suffers a similar handicap–for example, another senator.