slate-republicans for Hillary part 3

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Republicans for Hillary, Part 3
Retreat.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, at 4:27 PM PT

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>Hillary Clinton's under-the-radar presidential candidacy—which, as Chatterbox observed previously, was invented by conservative commentators to fulfill various practical and psychological imperatives and has no reality outside their imaginations—has ended. That's a relief! With the passage of time, the real Hillary Clinton's repeated denials that she was running for president in 2004 grew more and more plausible, putting the right in a real quandary. For awhile, the winger line (as laid down by Fox News) was that Hillary was waiting too long to file for the primaries, which only demonstrated that she didn't know the first thing about running a presidential campaign. How much nastier was this going to get? Chatterbox began to worry that Republicans would boycott her imaginary inauguration, and then (inevitably) would call for her make-believe impeachment. But New York Times columnist William Safire found a more graceful way to usher conservatives out of their collective psychosis.<

http://slate.msn.com/id/2091277/