Word: lazio
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...Republic is so threatened that he stops his show each night for 30 seconds of "silent prayer") hints darkly that Bill Clinton wanted to ride the anxiety over Y2K to a state of martial law. Hannity, when not paying tongue-tied tribute to Mrs. Clinton's defeated rival, Rick Lazio, and his wife ("They should hang their head high"), opines that Hillary was elected by "a very biased media who anointed her queen." When they are not engaging in serious or comic bombast, they and their callers verge on the delusional. It's hard to think of another part...
...have to wrangle appointments to the right committees, settle down into her relatively lowly position ("Just take one of those chairs in the last row, Senator Clinton") and gain her colleagues' trust. The last task could be the toughest: After all, Clinton wasn't just running against Lazio - and he wasn't just running against her. Both candidates had to contend with the phantom of Bill Clinton, albeit in different ways...
...Lazio was running against an anti-anti-Clinton sentiment; in other words, though plenty of people in New York State were disgusted by the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, at least as many had come away from the last six years equating Lazio's former boss (Newt Gingrich) with Satan incarnate. For pretty much every Clinton-fatigue vote that went to Lazio, at least one GOP-fatigue ballot went to Clinton. And Bill Clinton's wife picked up quite a few sympathy votes, as well - because while Hillary never showed a weepy face to the public, her anguish...
...This year, the Democrat says she'll cast a vote for Rick Lazio because "his name sounds Italian...
...York, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic candidate, preserved the seat for her party by defeating Republican Rick A. Lazio after a bruising campaign...