Reply #38: The Senate seat is priority #1, but if she HAPPENED to get tapped for VP.. [View All]

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I honestly don't believe the woman is thinking about the Presidency right now--she knows that if she breaks her promise to New Yorkers re: her Senate seat, she'll be tarred and feathered as a "flip flopper" "slick" "opportunistic" etc.

However, if she recaptures the Senate seat easily, and then someone ELSE (like Clark, Bayh, Biden, Edwards, etc.) taps her for Veep, she has the option of running and looking like a class act for accepting the invite, rather than initiating a run of her own.

Call it sexist, but if she stakes her own run, there's too much baggage. If a presidential front-runner selects her, then it's a symbol that she's smart and capable enough to join the Boys Club. (And then watch, the Repubs will go crazy trying to get Condoleeza Rice as a Veep for John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Frist or Jeb Bush.)