The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

p> OH, CAROL br> It would have conservatives and Republicans pulling their hair and gnashing their teeth. But imagine a U.S. Senate with both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Carol Moseley-Braun . Yes, the former U.S. Senator from Illinois seems to be pondering a return to politics. /p>

In 1998 Moseley-Braun lost her re-election bid to Republican Peter Fitzgerald, but President Clinton repaid the loyal shilling she did for his administration by appointing her ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. Once that job ended, she returned home. Which, apparently, is not Chicago or even Illinois. The former senator now lives on a family-owned farm in Alabama. Moseley-Braun hasn't kept in close contact with many of her former staffers, but those who have spoken her say she's eager to get back into politics. "She wants to run again," says a former staffer currently working in the House. "I don't know who is encouraging her."

According to the staffer, Moseley-Braun has kept her official residence in Chicago, although she hasn't lived there in nearly three years. "Presumably she'd run against Fitzgerald in 2004."

The former senator earned quite a reputation during her one term in Washington. She was known for being demanding of her staff and leading a soap-opera-esque private life. A fundraiser at the DNC says Moseley-Braun isn't getting any encouragement to run out of that building. "God no. What a disaster that could be. But I'm sure Republicans would love it."

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