Republicans launch twin attacks to stop Hillary's return to the WH

[jefferson_dem]

So typical...:puke:

Republicans launch twin attacks to stop Hillary's return to the White House
By Philip Sherwell in Washington

Senior Republican activists have launched two high-profile campaigns aimed at sabotaging Senator Hillary Clinton's hopes of an elected return to the White House - even though the next presidential contest is three and a half years away.

It was also revealed last week that Mrs Clinton is to be the unwilling subject of a book in the autumn which will reportedly contain explosive revelations from her time as First Lady. The book, The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President, is being written by Ed Klein, a best-selling biographer and the scourge in print of the Kennedy clan.

The ratcheting-up of "Stop Hillary" operations reflects a grudging acknowledgement among Republicans that Mrs Clinton, long regarded as an unreformed liberal out of touch with the country's political mood, has been carefully staking out middle-of-the-road positions on issues such as abortion and immigration.

Both the Republican fund-raising initiatives are initially targeted at defeating Mrs Clinton when she runs next year for a second term in the Senate. Their organisers, however, make little secret of the fact that they are hoping to deal a crippling blow to a leading frontrunner for the Democrat nomination for the 2008 White House race.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/17/wclin17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/17/ixworld.html

[KittyWampus]

1. Hope This Backfires... Sounds Mean Spirited & Overkill.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Oh wow.

I first misread this as "Republicans twins launch attacks ..." I was imagining Barbara and Jenna engaged in a nasty PR offensive against Hillary.

[MADem]

7. I thought first of the TWIN TOWERS, frankly

when I saw that headline. Not a good association for them, when you think viscerally....

[TheFarseer]

3. attack her all you want

she won't be the nominee and you will have wasted all that money and energy.

[lumpy]

16. I believe you are right.

She unelectable at this time because she is a WOMAN.
I think the GOP is pulling a snow job emphasising the possibility of her running to deflect attention from other possible candidates.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

19. not just because she is a woman

(though that is the main reason), but she is associated with Bill. Too much baggage with the Clintons.

[Mend]

4. She is going to win and they know it....

these people are evil, but not stupid.

[LiberallyInclined]

26. extremely doubtful.

repugs will come out in bigger droves to vote against hillary than they did to vote against gay marriage...and i'd say at least 25% of Dems aren't all enamoured with the idea of voting for her either.
I know that i'll NEVER waste my vote on her. I'd either abstain, or vote green.

[JerseygirlCT]

5. Boy, are they ever scared of her

Sure makes you wonder, doesn't it? Pulling out all the stops so soon?

What IS it about her that gets to them so badly?

[Daphne08]

6. She's a strong-willed, intelligent woman.

[n2mark]

8. Wonder what these idiots will do if everything changed to a

Boxer for President. Guess that will set them back a little.

[Spirochete]

29. I think they're just

getting an early start on scaring up donations. Every time the words "Hillary" and "president" are used together in a sentence, all the freepers write a check.

[JerseygirlCT]

43. Yeah but why is that?

There's something about her that hits those rw buttons. And I'm just not sure what it is. She's certainly no wild-eyed liberal. Yes, she's female -- perhaps that's enough for them. Female and capable? That could do it.

But the level of hatred directed at her has always struck me as strange and very out of proportion.

[natrat]

33. they are not scared

they are salivating and could trounce her ----wreaks of bs

[catzies]

49. I agree-this is just "trying to talk it into existence" they WISH she runs

The party of Hatriots needs her as a target for their raison d'etre.

[creeksneakers2]

9. The wingers must have published 1,000 books full of

"revelations" about Hillary. I don't think there was a true sentence in any of them. The last one was all about Hillary's plot to run for president in 2004.

[JerseygirlCT]

10. And people scoffed at her mention of a

"vast right wing conspiracy".

Wonder if they see the irony?

[lancdem]

14. Exactly

And, hey, if it does stop her, then she shouldn't be the nominee anyway. We have a number of strong candidates for 2008.

[Skip Intro]

11. She's aleady been NY Senator for six years, she has a record to run on

And that will be the hard part of the repukes sale - how can you convince a population that the world will end if she's re-elected after she's been there for so long and the world hasn't ended?

Unless they got NY stacked with corrupt election officials and a myraid of electronic voting machines, they're fucking nuts about stopping her in 2006. Brings the term, "miserable failure" to mind.

I look forward to her 2006 campaign. I thnk she's a risk as a presidential candidate, at this point, but that could change. I really want to see how she'll handle these "stop hillary" morons - she could really strengthen her image

Once again, I want to say to the unAmerican crooks and liars on the right, and the lurking bushbots here, bring it on.

[Mizmoon]

20. Our voting machines in NY look like 1960 vintage

no fancy computer based cheating here.

[raysr]

12. It's really

great how afraid they are of her! If I was her I'd be laughing myself silly. Really, what the fuck more can they do or say about her?

[UpInArms]

13. so when do we start a "Stop Jeb" campaign? ...... eom

[OneTwentyoNine]

15. Fine... we'll raise Repukes one Rudy MARRYING his cousin

Want to make it dirty,with Rudy it won't be ANY problem.

[karynnj]

53. Or Rudy telling the press he wanted a divorce before telling his wife

[AlCzervik]

17. I don't care, the more they attack her the worse they look

[Gman]

18. Personal space?

They haven't learned yet.

[napi21]

21. I reaqlly like and respect Hillary, but I think the Pubs hate her as much

as we hate Shrub. I'm still not positive what their main reason is, or if they even have a reason.

I have to admit though, I would go INSANE if Jeb got the nomination in 2008, and I guess the Pubs feel the same about a Clinton.

[Pirate Smile]

22. Vile book full of lies and a smear ad campaign? I've seen this show before

[karynnj]

54. But their timing is worse

Kerry was hit with a book containing hundreds of lies - that he and some of his team debunked - had the book come out even say a year earlier, Kerry could have blown it completely out of the water instead of wasting valuable time. The only difference would be if they had anything real on the Hillary (or any other candidate they try this on.)

[halobeam]

23. They are VERY much afraid...

I like that! hehehe... I truthfully thinks she's a risk at this early stage to be our candidate, but I'd love to see her take them on, if she clobbered them, people would DEFINETELY think twice!

[truthisfreedom]

24. Jesus in heaven, what a bunch of schmucks. these idiots know not what they

do... they're virtually assuring her election if she choses to run.

[6000eliot]

25. I wouldn't worry.

She feeds on this stuff. When have the RW thugs ever won one of these things against the Clintons? It will backfire the way it always did.

[MeinaShaw]

27. The Attack of the Killer Republican Twins!

[karynnj]

55. Did their dad cut their allowances or something?

They really look annoyed in this picture - from facial expressions to body language.

[Piperay]

28. Why would they want to stop her

if Hillary got the nomination it would guarantee them another 4 years in the Whitehouse. This is a switch cause they usually promote her, nothing unites the repukes like hate for Hillary, she brings in lots of money and votes for them.

[Dulcinea]

30. Stop her from doing what?

Has she ever said she'd run for President?

Personally, I'd vote for her just to see the wingnuts explode.

But, I doubt she'll run, at least in the near future. She's too smart for that. I'd rather see her on the Supreme Court.

[xchrom]

31. attacking the clintons = contributions.

whether she runs or not is immaterial -- they're trying to kill two birds with one stone.

[natrat]

32. soiunds like a fake issue to stir up the morons

how much dlc complicity is unknown

[pokercat999]

34. Who cares she's just repug lite anyway. nt

[NashVegas]

35. Gosh, I Hope They Spend a LOT of Money

Like, everything they have.

[Catchawave]

36. Attack of the Wingnut Hate Machine....

From what I hear, no republican wants to run against her in the Senate race? What morans! Don't they know, that which doth not kill her will only make her stronger?

[tanyev]

37. Hypocrisy alert!

One of these campaigns is headed up by newlywed Arthur Finkelstein.

Creepy political operative Arthur Finkelstein is all warm for Hillary Clinton's form: in fact, his new Anti-Hillary PAC is reportedly up and running, and it's even hilariously being called "Stop Her Now."
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/democrats/hillary-stop-her-now-please-032352.php

G.O.P. Consultant Weds His Male Partner
By ADAM NAGOURNEY

WASHINGTON, April 8 - Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0409-06.htm

Here's the most egregious hypocrisy:
Mr. Finkelstein, 59, who has made a practice of defeating Democrats by trying to demonize them as liberal, said in a brief interview that he had married his partner of 40 years to ensure that the couple had the same benefits available to married heterosexual couples.

"I believe that visitation rights, health care benefits and other human relationship contracts that are taken for granted by all married people should be available to partners," he said.

If Mr. Finkelstein truly believes that, then why in the world is he a Republican attack dog going after Hillary Clinton? Shameful.

[scavok]

38. Hillary is a fund raising gold mine to the Republicans

Her chances to actually become the nominee have been hurt by her association with the DLC and Dean becoming party chair. Her positions also brand her as Republican Lite. This translates into problems motivating the ground troops.

But say her name around the Republican faithful and they start foaming at the mouth. She and Bill get the blood boiling like nothing else. The cynical fund-raising types know this and exploit it to rake in tons of cash, much of which will be used for other races when the election rolls around.

[CANDO]

39. Message to Hillary ---------------- please don't run!

If you do run for the Presidency, you only confirm what they say about your thirst for power. Do the right thing and be an outstanding Senator from New York. It's a perfect fit for helping shape national policy. You are one of only one hundred Senators. That is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world and a offers a powerful platform for your ideas. I personally am looking closely at Sen. Feingold of Wisconsin. I am not interested in regurgitating Al or John, but wouldn't mind seeing a Feingold/Clark or Edwards/Boxer type ticket.

[Stinky The Clown]

40. This is NOT about Hillary Clinton ..... it IS about the RW trying to pick

the candidate they want.

Purported polls notwithstanding, I get a sense there's little serious widespread support for Sen. Clinton. However, by keeping her name out there, the RW props her up. If they do it enough, they get to run against her and they think that favors them (I'm not sure I agree with them on that.) If she doesn't run, the echo chamber still protects them by giving any other possible candidate no air time. Once again, they're playing us like a fucking fiddle.

Think devious, disgusting and manipulative and you'll start to see what they're doing.

[SKKY]

52. Dead on the money. I don't know why more people haven't picked...

...up on this.

[Zerex71]

41. I love how entertaining it is when Repukes get scared.

[davsand]

42. Two questions: Who CARES, and THIS is news?

This is not an attack on the original poster at all, but I am sick unto DEATH of letting the GOP pick our nominees for us.

PLEASE--LET this shit die the un-public death it deserves. EVERY time a DUers posts this kind of shit on here declaring our nominee as decided by the GOP strategists it gives the GOP spin machine that much more credibility.

How about we pick our OWN damn nominee in a fair primary and tell the GOP to get stuffed?



Laura

[DFWJock]

44. Wait...

I thought they were just dying to have Hillary as the nominee.
Guess not.

[Deja Q]

57. because the media will denounce OUR candidate, while

making THEIR candidate look so much the better.

While not quite a Deaniac (I was a Kucinich supporter), I liked him a lot more than others... some of which the media propped up at just the right, special moment at the same time Dean made his yell (which was hardly worthy of attack!)...

The media is GOP-own3d, that is incontrovertible.

[davidwhite0570]

45. I think it is just a trick Hillary is pulling to make it look like she is

going to run and make the repugs use up money fighting her, at least that is a strategy i would use

[confludemocrat]

47. yeah right, real smart, savvy call:

she'd hire on a vicious scoundrel attack dog of the right who'd sell his own mother down the river to get Demos and trust him not to turn on her, even knowing these people turn on each other like Hitler did with Ernst Rohm, shown analogously lately with Gingrich turning on DeLay.

Wow, I am in awe of the reasoning here.

[davidwhite0570]

48. I never claimed to be savvy but it worked against Hitler

when the Brits and Us were planning DDay with the cardboard tanks and trucks so the germans would commit troops to the false landing site....it didn't work 100% but it was a good plan

[LibDemAlways]

46. Ed Klein, who is writing the anti-Hillary book,

is the same ass who wrote the anti-JFK Jr. book with all kinds of salacious crap about drug use, infidelity, etc. At least Hillary is still alive to defend herself.

[Zhade]

50. Her return has to START before it can be STOPPED.

She's not going to make it past the primaries - this is a non-issue distraction.

[bemildred]

56. Duh. Actually, I think it's about trying to get her run started.

I have a feeling she is one of the anointed Dem successors to Shrub.
I don't know why we have to listen to all this shit 3.5 years early
unless it's to try to get the ball rolling.

[agincourt]

51. No matter who wins the Dem primarly in 2008,

People need to be warned about the mainstream media backing up the ditto-pigboy media in the crucial several months before the election.
Dickface O'Neill would have gotten nowhere if the mainstream media hadn't pumped up his lies about Kerry before the 2004 election. We need to get proof that the mainstream media pumps up repigs before the elections to make them stealable. If they criticize republicans in the non-election years, so what? It's how the mainstream media is a campaign ad for the republicans months before the elections that count. Really why should Rush Limbaugh's and Ann Coulter's annus faces be on CNN anytime? Without mainstream backup of the wingnuts, they would swing little.

[struggle4progress]

58. Isn't The Telegraph just another rightwing mouthpiece? eom

[shadowknows69]

59. here's the key folks

we keep making them think we're going to nominate Hil and that way their attention and effort is diverted from the "real" candidate. Shhh. keep this under your hat