If Clinton originated the van idea, however, she did it 15 years ago. During her successful 2000 run for U.S. Senate in New York, Clinton and her team even called their campaign van “Scooby Doo.” (In the original Hanna-Barbera cartoon, a group of teenage sleuths travel America’s backroads in a van dubbed the “Mystery Machine,” debunking supernatural hoaxes, often with the help of celebrity guest voices.)

“They were driving around New York in an armored brown van, ‘which we had called the mystery machine, the Scooby Doo van, which was an interesting thing to drive and learn to manipulate,’ the agent tells me in an interview,” the Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper reported in “Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine.”

“That’s because Hillary and her staff objected to the customary limo the First Lady would normally use. They complained the ‘optics’ weren’t right for an aspiring senator who wanted to look like she was a woman of the people — and not a product of the White House,” he wrote.