"While I'd love to see someone confront, and defeat, the free-range haters on the right," says the Time scribe, "the last thing we need is a campaign that would polarize the nation even more."

What's more, says the one-time Clinton fan, Hillary's political skills are vastly overrated.

Say the Time writer, "She has a clenched, wary public presence, which won't work well in an electorate that prizes aw-shucks informality; she isn't a particularly warm or eloquent speaker, especially in front of large audiences."

America's first female president will have to be "a brilliant politician," Klein says, "who'll be able to create her own unique feminine presidential style."

"So far, Senator Clinton hasn't shown the ease or creativity necessary to break the ultimate glass ceiling."

And if that weren't enough to give Democrats second thoughts, there's the other half of the Hillary equation: Bill.

"Her husband [is] a one-man supermarket tabloid," proclaims Klein, noting a spate of recent gossip reports linking Mr. Clinton to a prominent Canadian divorcee.

There's been too much extramarital water under the bridge to give Hillary's husband the benefit of the doubt, Klein says, advising, "Absent any evidence, the former President should be considered guilty until proved really guilty."

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