What could be more drearily predictable, days before yet another
primary, than the sight of Hillary morphing from Lady Macbeth into
Alice in Wonderland.

   You could see the change coming at the so-called debate, where she
was in familiar, vicious mode while sporting a make-up job in softening
shades of pink and white that made her look like the human equivalent
of an Easter mint.

   "Knock on doors," she instructed a group of college students
yesterday, while grinning her best charm-offensive grin, "and say, 'you
know, she's really nice'. Or you could say it another way and say,
'She's not as bad as you think she is'."

   Actually, she's a lot worse than you think she is, but then, we're accustomed to Clinton lying.

   So accustomed that you've got to figure that Carl Bernstein nailed
it when positing that a Hillary presidency, like her husband's, would
be known for some good policy ideas offset by endless drama and
dissembling.

   But truly scarey, as opposed to merely obscene, are the growing
hints that hers would be an imperial presidency or, to put it in
Hillary's terms, a wallow in "screw 'em" politics.

    For evidence, start with the punitive way her campaign deals with
the press. Then consider her assertion that she'll expand "the American Security Umbrella" to cover Saudi
Arabia and our other Arab allies and that, if the Iranians attack them, she'll  go after Iran with maximum force. This massive policy shift has been mentioned only by MSM commentators making the point that nobody is mentioning it.
   And I can't help wondering if what she's really saying is that she''ll go to the mat for any nation whose leader
contributed to the Clinton Library.
    But for now, Warrior Hillary is vying for time with The Hillary Who Loves Her Mom and a self-deprecating, ostensibly humanized Hillary soon
to be viewed chatting with Larry King. All that kinder, gentler stuff 
is downright creepy in light of what both accompanies it preceded it: the ginned-up outrage,
her stints as Bar Drinker and Annie Oakley.

    None of this will matter of course if she loses on Tuesday. But
she'll probably win. And when she does, we better start talking about
the ways in which a Hillary presidency would further decimate an
already battered Constitution.