NEW DEMOCRATIC MESSAGE: VOTE FOR KERRY OR YOU'LL GET HILLARY IN 2008

Heard on the office elevator: two women discussing their rabidly Republican husbands who are going to vote for Kerry. Why? Because they're scared to death that if Bush wins, Hillary will take the presidency in 2008.

Great! Let's turn the Repugs' ridiculous, irrational loathing of Hillary Clinton to our advantage. New Democratic campaign slogan: Kerry in '04 or Hillary in '08 -- we report, you decide.