BUSH’S BIGGEST SUPPORTER

She’s pretending to be John Kerry’s biggest supporter, but no one is rooting for George Bush to win in November more than Hillary. She got behind the best straw candidate Bush could most easily demolish, Dizzy Howard Dean. When he imploded, she looked around and asked, “Who’s the next worst?” A no-brainer: obviously, an egomaniacal gigolo with more negatives than an Algebra student who fantasizes he could be another “JFK.”

As laid out in “Bitterness and Bad Karma” (Behind The Lines, December 14, 2003, currently posted in the Classics section), the only way Hillary can run in 2008 is for GW to win in 2004. She does her homework — rest assured she’s had depth-to-the-bottom “oppo” research on Kerry, and is dribbling it out via untraceable media cut-outs.

First it was Kerry portrayed as an opportunistic flip-flopper on issues and votes. Now the fraud of his Purple Hearts is emerging. What’s next? Tuh-RAY-zuh’s tax returns, the ugly details of his first marriage to wealthy heiress Julia Thorne? There’s a cornucopia to come.

The tightrope Hillary has to walk is to destroy Kerry while getting everyone — most especially key power folks in the Democrat Party — to believe she really is behind him and not slipping a stiletto between his third and fourth ribs.

Her husband was the best there ever was at this. “Bill Clinton,” a prominent Congressman told me who met him many times, “would put his arm around you and convince you that you were his best buddy on earth — convince you so much that you’d never notice he was peeing down your pants leg.”

Hillary has learned from the Master. Her duplicitous eyes are fixed on 2008. John Kerry doesn’t have a chance.