The Revenge of Nixon

The defeat of Senator John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election all but solidified expectations that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would run for the presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 2008. And while GOP leaders continue to search for the perfect candidate to challenge her in the next presidential election campaign (personally, my money is on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice right now), it appears as though a candidate for the senate seat in the state of New York, the one currently held by Hillary Clinton, has been found which they hope will, at the very least, bloody her up a bit going into 2008. Republican Edward Cox, the son-in-law of the late-President Richard Nixon, will soon form an exploratory committee for an expected run against Senator Clinton in 2006 and has already begun preparations to begin fundraising efforts for his expected campaign. And while Clinton’s adviser admits that the election is still eighteen months away, she has to be sweating bullets right about now. A defeat going into 2007, the year in which the Democratic Party begins searching for a candidate for the 2008 presidential election, would be a huge road block in her plans to retake the White House. What makes this race all the more proverbial is that Clinton was one of the young lawyers who worked in Washington on the impeachment proceedings against Nixon in 1973.