Adam's blogbox: why Hillary will get to be president

There are still people who'd like Wesley Clark to run for president. I don't get it. Clark may be a military general, but he always comes off a little lightweight -- maybe because he's so handsome in a pretty-boy Trevor Howard way. He's just not butch enough. Like John Edwards ain't butch enough. Clint Eastwood could run for president, but not Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio.

You've got to be major butch to become a US president. Which is why I think Hillary stands a much stronger chance than Republicans think. Hillary vs. McCain -- who's more butch? It's a wash. In fact, I'd give her the edge. She's got that inner butch steeliness in her, down to the bone. That Margaret Thatcher/Indira Gandhi thing. She ain't no powderpuff.

That's why so many Republicans hate her -- she just isn't Laura Bush-femmy enough for their macho tastes. They can't stand it that she never took a back seat to her husband, or did the supportive stand-by-your-man smile-obediently bake-cookies thing.

With her steeliness, she makes any swaggering male blusterer look lame. Like Giuliani. He has a womanly hysteria in him, which you guys who didn't know him as NYC mayor don't know about yet. And McCain is too grandfatherly.

In the butch stakes, Hillary wins. That's why she's going to do it, because she out-butches not only everyone in the Dem field, but all the Republicans as well.

Vote for the real man in the race. Vote for Hillary.