The Clintons are the best thing to happen for the party...The Republican party:

Former President Clinton will automatically be a New York delegate to the Democratic National Convention next year, the state's party chairman said Tuesday.

State Assemblyman Herman Farrell said national party rules call for all members of Congress, all members of the Democratic National Committee from New York and all former presidents and vice presidents to be automatic delegates.

That means Clinton and his wife, New York's junior senator, can both go to the convention in Boston next summer as so-called super delegates from their adopted state. Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the Senate in 2000.

Their is a raging fight going on for the soul of the Democratic party, the Clinton branch and the Dean branch. I don't think the American voter likes either one. They are not the Truman or Kennedy type of Dems. The Clintons represent sleaze, I give Terry McAulliffe as evidence. Dean is the Goldwater type that is disconcerting post 9/11.