HillaryLand

Who knew covering the ’08 presidential race would be so much fun? We get to watch videos! OK, so watching some of them is quite painful — but we clearly need to get used to it. That old-fashioned politicking, getting the message out to voters in town halls and debates just isn’t much fun, so candidates now need to star in movies that are unrelated to what they would do as our next president. But hey, it’s a chance to be cool, or really bizarre, as in the case of former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel (D), who stares intensely and silently into the camera for several minutes before throwing a rock in a lake.

Consider Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who was the subject/target of a 1984-ish video made just months ago by an Obama Democrat, and whose rival was recently the subject of a popular video where a female fan known as “Obama Girl” is swooning for the Illinois senator. What choice does the poor woman have? Staff figured she better become a movie star, quick.

So the diner flick she released yesterday, spoofing the finale of “The Sopranos” series, was perfectly timed to be the talk today even as Clinton was booed for the second year in a row by the anti-war lefties at the Take Back America conference. Good work, HillaryLand.

I would like to take credit for comparing Hillary to Tony Soprano on television sometime in the last year, but I don’t know which show it was or when. I may have compared her to a Mob boss instead. But it is a fitting comparison. No, she is not Carmela, she is Tony. From 2004 through 2006, as the dust settled on a bitter Democratic Party that had just lost another presidential election to George W. Bush, party operatives seeking a path to the promised land had two choices: Go with Clinton or suffer the consequences. Those who have averted HillaryLand hid in the shadows as she scooped up all the party talent, and now, as they work for her opponents, they wonder what will become of them in the next Clinton adminstration. It’s a scary thought.