Fred Barnes provides backup for my hunch about Hillary’s chances in 2008.

Consider me a bear on ‘08.

Then again, I was a bear in ‘04, too.

But do we really think Hillary Clinton will be a worse candidate than John Kerry?

Others, such as Glen Dean and Will Franklin (see item 6), are more optimistic: she “has no chance.”

Update: Here’s Glenn Reynolds with another slice of the pie: “The GOP is at serious risk of losing a decisive chunk of its voters to a Perot-style movement.”

Let’s review:

1. Democrats will have a nominee they love, with universal name recognition, and with full backing by the liberal media and the public-education-brainwash-brigade.

2. Republicans will not have George W. Bush to unite the various factions of the party, and even he had a difficult time.

3. The #1 winning issue of terrorism will probably not be as potent for the Republicans in 2008.

4. Republicans will again be turned off by the inability of their own elected leaders to stand for conservative principles and show some backbone.

5. Jim Wallis and other religious liberals are doing their best to slander the religious right and drive Christians away from the Republican party and into the hands of socialist Democrats.

6. Etc., etc.