Robert F. Kennedy was something of a carpetbagger when he ran for U.S. Senate from New York in 1964. But he was attorney general of the United States for three years, one of the more demanding Cabinet positions. The former is a fairly meaningless label. Besides, as important as children are, there's more to government then just setting up federal daycare programs. As for healthcare, the fact that Mrs. Clinton's proposals failed is not so much a problem.
Failure can be a good thing.
What's troubling is that she tried to place one-seventh of the U.S. economy under government command without making a serious effort to explain her plan to the public. He dropped out of the race, partly because of the media frenzy over a woman he's been seeing that isn't his estranged wife. Hillary's current opponent is Rick Lazio, a Long Island congressman. Now, Lazio may very well be the most underwhelming candidate for statewide office in the history of the Empire State. But he is, by any fair account, a decent and relatively moderate guy whose political views mirror that of his suburbanite constituency.