Dirtiest race ever.

With Hillary Clinton emerging as the 2008 presidential front runner, but still having to run for her pretty secure senate seat in 2006, you can just bet that things are going to get really ugly. The republicans are likely, despite the claims that they think they're likely to win, will probably put someone up whose sole job it is to slime Hillary Clinton as much as they can. We can hope that the repubs in NY will actually pick the best candidate in their primary, limiting this effort to outside groups, but you know the national repub folks are gonna get deep into this one.

I'm not a big Hillary Clinton fan, but the slime list is long and the repubs do this over and over. It's just wrong. On the bright side, I doubt there is much left hidden. After all, how many candidates have been vetted for four years at taxpayer's expense by an independent counsel and come out clean.

Anyhow, the NYTimes had a story on one of the republican contenders. I know nothing about NY politics, but check out her connection to the repub nationals.

Jeanine F. Pirro got her United States Senate campaign off to a fiery but rocky start yesterday, broadly assailing the Democratic incumbent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in three speeches across the state, while grappling with questions about abortion, taxes, Iraq and her husband. ....

Mr. Pirro, who was said to be working at his lobbying practice yesterday, ......

Facing reporters, Ms. Pirro ignored a question about whether she would take campaign donations from her husband, who is a prominent Republican donor, or let him raise money toward her goal of at least $30 million for the Senate race. Some political candidates rebuff donors with criminal records.

By day's end, a Pirro aide, Michael McKeon, said Mr. Pirro would not play a role in fund-raising, but Ms. Pirro would accept his money. Mr. McKeon said donations from people with criminal records would be reviewed "on a case by case basis."

Lastly, the only way to stop the slime is to vote against it. Use your head and see though the lies.