Consistent with its practice throughout l'affaire Lewinsky, the White House spin machine has gone into overdrive to change the subject.

Thus, we have witnessed paroxysms of media delight over the prospect that another Clinton - First Feminist Hillary Clinton - might run for the United States Senate seat being vacated by retiring New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Will she, or won't she? That is the question now dominating the media, though the 1978 rape allegation of Jane Doe No. 5, Juanita Broadrick, now has finally broken through the maintstream media's best efforts to spike the story.

Almost completely ignored in media feeding frenzy is the notion that Mz. Rodhmam's campaign would be that of a carpetbagger, one moving into a state with which she has had little contact otherwise purely for political advantage.

Normally, this is a bad thing. Your intrepid correspondent was accused of just such an offense when the Young family moved to Montclair nearly five years ago. Apparently, some local Republicans fabricated the story that we had relocated as a prelude to my candidacy against Dumfries District Supervisor Maureen Caddigan for the Republican nomination. While we told anyone who bothered to ask that we got a great deal on a house, and liked Lake Ridge just fine, thank you, at least one local journal published an item reporting the rumor.

And maybe the Prince William County GOP has something to say about Mz. Rodham's candidacy. After all, the PWC GOP brought the voters Debra Wilson, a candidate who - even had she actually moved into the 51st Legislative District - still would have done so for one reason and one reason only: to run against Democrat David Brickley, a twenty-year incumbent. Perhaps the PWC GOP can enlighten Mz. Rodham about the dangers of re-locating solely for political advantage, even if she actually does so, notwithstanding the Great Prevaricator's continued tenure at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20500.

As Mrs. Wilson found out, carpetbagging remains unpopular, even independent of her legal difficulties (now on appeal).

Perhaps Mz. Rodham can overcome this handicap. After all, some people have floated the idea that this seat is for New York's carpetbaggers, having once been held by Bobby Kennedy, scion of the Kennedys of Massachusetts, who used it to launch his national political career.

Personally, though, I hope she runs. After all, years of being told that Ms. Rodham is a feminist icon have apparently caused many to forget that her position, her prominence, has arisen from a more traditional course.

People forget that her prominence is mainly the result of being married to a powerful political figure. Sure, she has a Yale law degree in her own right, but there is little indication of any legal talent or brilliance beyond where her very powerful connections would have taken her. Her wacky political ideas - like 1993's plan for a federal takeover of the health care industry, 1/7 of the American economy - are far outside the mainstream of American politics, or even New York politics.

There's a fairly old joke about the Great Prevaricator and Mz. Rodham driving through the country, and stopping for gas. Mz. Rodham recognizes the gas pump attendant - remember those? - as an old boyfriend, and the Great Prevaricator comments that, "Just think, Hillary. If you'd stayed together, you'd be married to a gas pump attendant today." Hillary responds, "No. I'd still be First Lady, and you'd be washing windshields!"

A Rodham candidacy would be a wonderful opportunity for an American electorate to consider and reject outright her socialist views directly and, in the words of former Governor George Allen, "kick her soft teeth down her whining throat."

Young lives with his family in Montclair.