http://www.nypost.com/commentary/58814.htm CENTER WILL NOT HOLD FOR HILLARY By DEBORAH ORIN IF Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton really wants to run for president, it looks as if she needs a new strategy, because her tortured triangulation is now backfiring so badly that even draft-Hillary fans are mad at her. In fact, draft-Hillary chief Bob Kunst - who broadcast the first pro-Hillary TV ads of the 2008 cycle - is so upset that he's mulling new ads to accuse triangulation champ Bill Clinton of betraying his wife politically. Bill Clinton invented triangulation - trying to grab the center and paint foes on both sides as extremists. It was great for him in the 1990s, when there was a political center, but today is an era of polarization. The trouble began when Sen. Clinton tried to straddle the center on Iraq with a letter that stood by her pro-war vote but blamed President Bush for the war. Big problem: There is no center on Iraq, and she pleased just about no one. Things really heated up when The Post's Ian Bishop revealed that Sen. Clinton was trying a similar grab-the-center strategy on flag-burning as the sole co-sponsor of a bill to ban it - but not by constitutional amendment. Yikes! In one fell swoop, she managed the all-but-impossible task of infuriating both the New York Times editorial board on the left and the American Legion on the right. And she inspired anti-Hillary editorials across the country. "Bill's position on trying to get her to be centrist is not relevant since 9/11. People are looking for a leader, not the same old politics," fumes Kunst, who heads HillaryNow.com. "Bill is betraying her, and we're looking at doing ads about that in January because this kind of politics is backfiring on her and it's nonsensical," added Kunst. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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