It Takes A Village To Staff A Gestapo Unit Update.

From the New York Daily News:

A new poll out yesterday says more than half the country's voters definitely wouldn't vote for the New York Democrat to become President.

The CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll says 51% of registered voters "would definitely not vote" for Clinton, while just 16% said they definitely would, and 32% said they would consider it.

Ouch!

That contrasted with 46% who said they would oppose Secretary of State Rice if she ran for President - a step Rice has repeatedly said she won't take.

"What it says is that in many ways Hillary Clinton is still a polarizing figure," said Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf.

Doy! Double doy, even.

The new poll was taken after the furor over Clinton's Martin Luther King Day jab in Harlem, where she compared GOP House leaders to "plantation" owners.

The bleak numbers don't mean Clinton should scratch a White House bid from her 2008 to-do list, Sheinkopf added, noting Richard Nixon beat down similar poor perceptions.

Of course, Nixon was the smartest woman in the world. That 's the difference.

He said Clinton will have to mount a major television ad campaign and take steps to upgrade her image in key swing states.

"Plan to see Sen. Clinton - post-2006 - spending a lot of time in the Midwest," Sheinkopf said.

Time to evacuate Iowa, kiddies.

And there's this from Ann Coulter:

So Hillary Clinton thinks the House of Representatives is being "run like a plantation." And, she added, "you know what I'm talkin' about."

First of all: Think about what a weird coincidence it is that Hillary would have made these remarks in a black church in Harlem on Martin Luther King Day. What are the odds? Did she even know it was a holiday? Bravely spoken, Senator. I haven't been this surprised since finding out Hollywood likes a movie about gay cowboys.

As Hillary explained, the House "has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

Yes, that's what was really missing on plantations during the slavery era: the opportunity to present a contrary view. Gosh, if only the slaves had been allowed to call for cloture votes. What a difference that would have made!

Heehee!

Madam Hillary also said the Bush administration "will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." While Hillary is certainly qualified to comment on what the all-time worst presidential administrations were, having had firsthand experience in one of them, I think she might want to avoid the phrase "go down in history."

Ouch!