Another Opponent for Hillary

Jeanine Pirro, the District Attorney for Westchester County, announced Monday that she will run for the Republican nomination to take on Hillary Clinton in her bid for reelection to the U.S. Senate next year. Pirro becomes the second prominent Republican in the race, joining Nixon son-in-law Ed Cox.

Pirro has taken positions largely of a centrist bent, and will certainly be an interesting candidate to watch in the race. I will be paying close attention to see if she plans on bringing more to the campaign than Ed Cox has so far. I criticized Cox back in late June for his pitiful announcement speech, which seemed to indicate that he was planning a campaign based on little other than "Hillary Clinton is a carpetbagger and she's not a Republican." As I said then, Republicans must rely on a strategy other than "I'm not Hillary" to make a case that she should be unseated next fall, and it remains to be seen whether Cox - or now Pirro - can get away from that easy but useless strategy and offer something new and different.

The official announcement speech from Pirro will come on Wednesday, so I'll probably have more on this story then.