Jeanine vs. Hillary -- This looks like fun.

So Jeanine Pirro is challenging Hillary. The received wisdom is that Hillary will clean her clock and that Pirro will be only a mild bump in the road to the presidency. Dick Morris isn't so sure. His reasoning:

Jeanine Pirro is pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-affirmative action, pro-gay-civil unions and pro-immigration. And, of course, she's a woman.

In a sense, Hillary will have to end up running against someone who is quite like herself in her public positions: Except, of course, Pirro is a good old-fashioned anti-tax, anti-crime, tough-on-terror Republican from the suburbs.

Hillary would love to cloak her Senate re-election as a necessity in the face of a determined GOP effort to overturn Roe vs. Wade and to roll back the clock on gun controls. But against Pirro, she will be disarmed of all her best issues. She will have to run on her own record, which is limited at best.

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Jeanine looks weak in the polls right now because she only has about a 30 percent level of real name recognition statewide. But the fact that about one Hillary voter in three says that Mrs. Clinton should promise not to run for president if she seeks re-election to the Senate is an indication that all will not be well for her as she seeks a second term.

Read the whole thing here.

There's another similarity between the two women. Both have husbands who are, to say the least, embarrassments.

Jeanine Pirro is running — but her husband is hiding.

Albert Pirro — convicted tax cheat, admitted philanderer, father of an out-of-wedlock child, and accused leaker of info from his wife's office to the mob — was nowhere to be seen yesterday as his tough-talking, crime-fighting spouse was announcing she will take on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Will the man who was once the DA's biggest booster and fund-raiser be by her side tomorrow, when she officially kicks off the biggest political campaign of her life during a series of appearances across the state?

Not likely, said a campaign aide.

Al Pirro has been married to Jeanine since 1975 and they have two children, Christie, 19, and Alexander, 15.

But he can't be found anywhere on his wife's newly launched Web site, jeaninepirro.com.

There is not a word about him in the Westchester DA's detailed biography on the site — in fact, there's no mention of Jeanine Pirro even having a husband.

Read it here.

Verrry Interrresting!

Note, already the hints of mob involvement have started. Any Italian running for office has to put up with that stuff.