February 2, 2007 8:49AM # Get Ahead of the News with Cato@Liberty By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) --- SHARE In Thursday’s *Wall Street Journal*, [Fred Barnes makes a point](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117030096019594631-search.html?KEYWORDS=fred+barnes&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month) (paid reg. req.) that [I made here last week](https://www.cato.org/2007/01/21/worse-than-hillary/): Hard as it to believe, Sen. Hillary Clinton may campaign as the least statist of the Democratic presidential candidates. Barnes writes: > As surprising as this may sound, Mrs. Clinton starts her campaign as the Democratic candidate furthest to the right. The only two Democrats who might have gotten to her right — Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and former Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia — dropped out of the race. I had made that point. And I also noted that Sen. Russell Feingold would have criticized Hillary on civil liberties issues. With Feingold, Bayh, and Warner all out of the running, Hillary’s determination to constrain her big-government instincts during the campaign will be sorely tested as she fends off challengers like Sen. Barack Obama, former senator John Edwards, and maybe former vice president Al Gore. A footnote: Barnes and I have both ignored New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who [has persuaded Larry Kudlow](http://kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/2006/12/richardson-in-2008.html) that he’s a “a pro-growth, tax cutting Democrat.” Maybe moderate Democrats will have a choice after all. ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).