HILLARY’S OCTOBER SURPRISE

There’s the coolest buzz making the rounds in Washington’s power watering holes, and let’s cross every finger we have that it’s true.

To review the bidding, Hillary desperately wants to be POTUS. But if Hanoi John gets elected this November, he will obviously as the incumbent be the candidate in 2008. The earliest she could run would then be 2012, deep in her sixties and possibly ancient history. There is only one conclusion she can reach: Her only shot is to run in 2008 – which requires that George Bush be re-elected and John Kerry defeated in 2004.

You’re familiar with the term “October Surprise.” Right at the last moment, in late October, the parties try to pull a rabbit out of the media hat. The Dems sprung a decades-old DUI bust of GW a week before the election in 2000, the Pogo Press went into a feeding frenzy right on cue, and it almost submarined him on election day.

I wish Barbara Comstock running Oppo Research for the Republicans as much luck as it takes to figure out what dirty trick the Dems will try to spring this time. Yet while I’m sure they have an October Surprise planned – the buzz is that Hillary has one planned herself.

No one knows what it is – but we know four things about it.

First is that it will be aimed not at Bush but directly at Kerry, and perhaps Edwards as well.

Second, she will put all her access as First Lady to the FBI files of Washington politicians to full use, so that whatever revelation she comes up with it will be devastating. Hillary will take no chances and no prisoners. It will wipe Hanoi John out.

Third, it will be untraceable to her – no fingerprints.

Fourth, her friends in the mainline Pogo Press will frenzy it to the moon. For once, thanks to Hillary, the liberal media will be on our side.

So don’t be surprised if come mid to late October, Hillary Clinton turns out to be George Bush’s ace in the hole.