Has CNN or others ever contemplated that Fox News, the NY Post, and other Republican entities are treading lightly with Hillary b/c they know she's not electable? The party (as a whole) doesn't know how to foster a middle class or wage an effective war, but they do know electability--and know it darn well. But we can continue to delude ourselves into thinking she can win red states (against the real candidate, George Allen).
I think they are trying to paint her as a front-runner so that by 2008, everybody cringes when they here Hillary Clinton and they don't vote for her. Not that's she's going to run anyways (thank god!).