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[Tomi]

I love her!!

[joe to hell]

WHY must she come off as a hideous lesbian

[Matthew Rettenmund]

Why must you suggest lesbians are hideous? I disagree, though—she comes off as no-nonsense and yet capable of delivering a Top 10 list with timing and good humor. It's hard out there for a pimp, but she is doing well. Who'd have thought she'd be a viable candidate—let alone the front-runner—15 years ago when she was considered an unseemly first lady? I think she can go all the way, and the argument about a hated nominee was proven wrong by Bush himself—controversial candidates are often successful, and I think she will be. People hold it against her that she is calculated and wants it badly (as they did during her first Senate campaign), but when they assess her alongside the smarmy, cigar-chomping, bullfrog-meets-Foghorn Leghorn that is Fred Thompson, or cross-dressing/cross-voting Rudy Giuliani (it's one or the other), I believe they will—as they did with her Senate race—realize it's better to have a winner who really wants it and is going to be a wonk about it rather than a more "charming" opportunist.