A Conservative Who Can Win by Doug Patton

Three decades ago, two young lawyers worked behind the scenes, on opposite sides of the political aisle, to investigate the corruption and deceit that became known simply as “Watergate.” One, an ideologically liberal Democrat who had recently graduated from Yale Law School, served as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff advising the House Judiciary Committee during the scandal. The other, a wise-beyond-his-years conservative Republican Southerner with a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University, served as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. Little would anyone suspect in 1974 that these two could face each other for the presidency in 2008.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, these two politicos are, respectively, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Fred Dalton Thompson.

The fact that Hillary Clinton has been plotting her return to the White House since the day she and her impeached husband absconded with a goodly portion of the furniture has been the nation’s worst kept secret for the last six years. So intense is her hunger for presidential power that Republicans and Democrats alike are desperately seeking a credible alternative. An increasing number of Dems think they have found their party’s salvation in the very junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.

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