MATTHEWS: I think the Hillary appeal has always been somewhat about a mix of toughness and sympathy for her. Let’s not forget, and I’ll be brutal, the reason she’s a US senator, the reason she’s a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That’s how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it; she didn’t win on her merits, she won because everybody felt, “My God, this woman stood up under humiliation,” right? That’s what happened.

He hit the nail on the head, folks. Hillary Clinton is where she is because she is the most cheated on woman in the world, not the most cheated on woman in America, but the most cheated on woman in the world.

MATTHEWS: Concerned people like you who watch this show so faithfully every night, people like me who care about this country think I’ve been disrespectful to Hillary Clinton, not as a candidate, but as a woman. Was it fair to imply that Hillary’s whole career depended on being a victim of an unfaithful husband? No. And that’s what it sounded like I was saying, and it hurt people I’d like to think normally like what I say, in fact, normally like me. If my heart does not always control my words, on those occasions that I have not taken the time to say things right or have simply said the inappropriate thing, I’ll try to be clearer, smarter, more obviously in support of the right of women, of all people, the full equality and respect for their ambitions. So I get it. Saying that Senator Clinton got where she’s got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous, and I can see now, it comes across just as nasty, worse yet, just as dismissive.

Well, this is what happens to you when you want to be liked by the libs and when you don’t want the libs getting mad at you. So Hardball became Suckball last night. He got it right the first time when he was on Scarborough because what else recommends her?

In fact, Krauthammer had an even better line today, I read his column at National Review Online, and he said this whole bid for the presidency is just one giant alimony payment without the divorce.

That is exactly right. A giant alimony payment and we’re the ones paying. She is the most cheated on woman in the world. Where does this sense of entitlement come from, or the sense of inevitability?

Hillary is back to playing the victim again. Monday she was on the Tyra Banks Show. Tyra Banks said, “How did you persevere during the darkest moment in your life?”

HILLARY: Well, because I had tremendous faith, number one, I really had to dig down deep and think hard about what was right for me, what was right for my family, and I never doubted Bill’s love for me, ever, and I never doubted my faith and my commitment to our daughter and our extended family. But I had to decide what I had to do, and I think it’s so important to be able to hear yourself at a moment when it’s hard.

This is smack!

Talking about Lewinsky here. It wasn’t a surprise — to act like this was a surprise when everybody knows . She had been in charge of the bimbo eruptions. The only thing she was probably upset about was she was probably angry that he was stupid and he got caught. Now, a bunch of crap about you gotta be able to hear yourself at a moment when it’s hard.

Somebody tell me what that means.

You have to be able to hear yourself. And we know she wasn’t even trying to hear herself. She was channeling Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. She already admitted that.

Tyra Banks, question: “Were you embarrassed?”

HILLARY: Well, sure. I mean all of that, but I also, I was just praying so hard and thinking so hard about what’s right to do.

BANKS: Do women come up to you and ask for advice, my husband — you know, my husband stepped out on me, and I’m going through hell right now, what do I do? Have they done that?

HILLARY: Yes.

BANKS: What do you say?

HILLARY: All the time.

BANKS: What do you say?

HILLARY: I say you have to be true to yourself. You know, no one story is the same as any other story. I don’t know your reality. I can’t possibly substitute my judgment for yours, but what I can tell you is, you must be true to yourself. You have to do what is right for you.

Now, what does that mean?

In Hillary‘s case, okay, I am the most cheated on woman in the world and I’m going to get something for this. There’s a price, and it’s right for me, and that is being president, because I, the most cheated on woman in the world, not the country, but the world. So she’s telling you that you can’t do that. If you’re a doormat and you’re being cheated on, not as much as Hillary because she’s the most cheated on woman in the world, but if you’re a woman and you’re being cheated on, she’s saying,”Look, I can’t judge for you.”

What that means is, you don’t stand a prayer becoming president like I do, but you might be able to join the culinary workers and endorse Obama, if you really set your sights high.