Super Dem

SO, she’s in: Hillary Clinton is running for the Senate. Chances are, she will win. And when she does, she will be a bigger deal in American life than ever. Mrs. Clinton is the very embodiment of left-liberalism in America today— not to mention, one unusual character.

Throughout November, her supporters in New York (meaning, the state’s Democrats) were getting antsy. She hadn’t committed herself to the race. Polls were showing her running behind the (all-but-certain) Republican nominee, Rudolph Giuliani. She had landed in hot water over a couple of dangerous issues: her husband’s clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists, and her non-response to Suha Arafat, as the Palestinian First Lady accused Israel of gassing Palestinian “women and children” (strange how the Israelis had managed to overlook the men). One Democratic state legislator from Brooklyn had actually crossed over to endorse Giuliani. Party leaders were fretting that they wouldn’t have enough time to cough up another prize candidate if Mrs. Clinton took a walk on them. Their patience nearing an end, they were asking, “Well? Are you or aren’t you?”

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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SO, she’s in: Hillary Clinton is running for the Senate. Chances are, she will win. And when she does, she will be a bigger deal in American life than ever. Mrs. Clinton is the very embodiment of left-liberalism in America today— not to mention, one unusual character.

Throughout November, her supporters in New York (meaning, the state’s Democrats) were getting antsy. She hadn’t committed herself to the race. Polls were showing her running behind the (all-but-certain) Republican nominee, Rudolph Giuliani. She had landed in hot water over a couple of dangerous issues: her husband’s clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists, and her non-response to Suha Arafat, as the Palestinian First Lady accused Israel of gassing Palestinian “women and children” (strange how the Israelis had managed to overlook the men). One Democratic state legislator from Brooklyn had actually crossed over to endorse Giuliani. Party leaders were fretting that they wouldn’t have enough time to cough up another prize candidate if Mrs. Clinton took a walk on them. Their patience nearing an end, they were asking, “Well? Are you or aren’t you?”