....Dole campaign strategist Lisa Svoboda has been quietly meeting with Gennifer Flowers' attorney and media rep Shawn Cirle. What might the two be discussing? Can any more disturbing skeletons be found in this ransacked grave?

You'd think if Flowers wasn't enough to defeat Clinton in the last election, she couldn't help Dole much now. But whispers have it that maybe the Dole campaign isn't excavating for skeletons but digging for clams.

"The clam," known to researchers as mollusca, is the latest in a line of mostly benign sexually-transmitted diseases that have been discovered in the last few decades. Because it was thought to be rare, and is considered 'mostly harmless,' it hasn't gotten the attention devoted to AIDS or Herpes.

What makes mollusca a stand-out is this: It makes its victims, well, randy. Really randy. Statistically significantly randy.

Some time after the convention, expect Flowers to hold a press conference in which she claims that she's infected and that she gave it to -- or got it from -- the president.

Strategists see this as a way to focus attention on Clinton's perceived moral shortcomings -- polls show that the public does not believe that Clinton is faithful to his wife -- and may also be used to subtly indicate that Hilary has undue influence over his decisions. There's a hyphenated word ending in "whipped" that I'm not allowed to use in this column that applies here....