Paul Begalia Believes It Will Be Harder For Hillary Clinton To Win The Democratic Primaries Than The General Election

On this morning's Don Imus show, Paul Begalia offered an interesting opinon. He believes the left wing of the Democratic Party dislike Hillary Clinton so much that it is more difficult for her to win the Democratic primaries than the general election. This may be true. Joe Lieberman(I-CT) lost the Democratic primary in his home state to antiwar millionaire Ned Lamont, but won the general election. Hillary Clinton may have a similiar difficulty.

Hillary Clinton has also been positioning herself well with critical appearances such as at the new veteran's rehabilitation center in San Antonio run by the Phoenix Project. John McCain also made this critical appearance, however Bush, Cheney and other administration officials were all no shows because the sight of them with badly burned and disabled veterans would not make a good White House photo-opt.

So far Hillary Clinton seems to be making the best of critical appearance and photo-opt opportunities and has positioned herself as the candidate to beat of both parties this past week. John McCain has well positioned himself last week as well. Barack Obama and John Edwards photo opts lag behind both, as does that of Rudolph Giuliani. Joe Biden's photo opts have all been nearly bad this week, in his current losing bid for president.