Veteran GOP Operative Launches Anti-Clinton Web Site

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBI6JJCA8E.html

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A veteran GOP operative launched an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton Web site Tuesday, complete with an unflattering photo and a warning that she and her husband are trying to "pull the wool over America's eyes once again."

Meanwhile, Clinton was out with a fundraising letter claiming Arthur Finkelstein's "Stop Her Now" effort is part of a growing mound of evidence that Republicans "are prepared to do anything to defeat me."

"We know one thing for sure, the Republicans and their right-wing allies are going to be hitting us hard with false charges," the former first lady wrote to potential donors, calling herself "the Republicans' number one target in 2006."

Clinton is seeking re-election next year to the New York Senate seat she won in 2000 and Republicans claim she wants to use that race as a stepping stone to a 2008 presidential run. She insists her sole focus is on getting re-elected.

[liberaltexas]

1. Nice

I think it's great that they're so scared of her.

While she's not my choice for an alternative to the conservatives (she's too much like 'em for my tastes); it's nice to see them so afriad that they're starting the character assiniations this early.

Cheers

[The Donkey]

27. This is the Same Guy

Who runs campaigns for homophobes like Jesse Helms. Oh, by the way - he recently got married to his male lover of 40 years at their Massachusetts home, where they have adopted two boys.

Here's a wedding photo . . .

[mhr]

2. Why Am I Not Surprised!

eom

[pnutchuck]

3. The pukes know she is going to push for universal health care in 2008

and they're scared shitless! That would mean they're defense spending and corporate welfare would have to be drastically cut and they'd lose all their lobbying handouts.

[warrens]

4. Hahahaha

What a LAME site. This guy probably has brain damage from gaybashing himself.

[FSogol]

5. This is good news because...

the quicker people begin focusing on upcoming elections, the quicker Bush and Company become irrelevant lame ducks.

[madinmaryland]

6. Finkelstein is a real piece of work.

He has campaigned for years on the repub side against gay marriage and rights, yet within the last month or so got married to his gay partner in Massachusetts.

[tanyev]

8. Oh, yeah. And he gave this quote to a newspaper:

"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'd better not hold his breath until the GOP puts that in their platform.

[Bleacher Creature]

7. Boston Globe: Adviser to GOP had gay wedding

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/10/adviser_to_gop_had_gay_wedding/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News

By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff | April 10, 2005

A Republican consultant known for his sharp attacks on liberal causes -- and for boosting conservative careers like that of former US senator Jesse Helms -- married his longtime male partner late last year at their home in Ipswich.

Arthur J. Finkelstein, 59, has advised Governor Mitt Romney, who opposes gay marriage, and Governor George S. Pataki of New York, who said gay marriages performed in Massachusetts would not be recognized in his state. Finkelstein played a key role in Helms's come-from-behind victory in 1990, a campaign denounced for using homophobia to win votes.

Helms, who represented North Carolina in the Senate for 30 years, has rejected gay rights and has called homosexual behavior ''disgusting."

<SNIP>

Apparently, you now spell hypocrite F-i-n-k-e-l-s-t-e-i-n.

He should go on the attack against his own party before going after one of ours.

[UCLA Dem]

14. what an idiot.

[Dover]

9. A mere distraction. We should ALL be focused...with our full force...

on the Voting Machine issue. All the rest is noise and misdirected energy, if that piece is not fixed.

By getting us to respond to other issues, they have managed to get us to ignore and normalize (entrench) E-voting....drowned out by an overheated, contentious election.

[halobeam]

30. Right you are

Right you are. Right you are. Right you are. Ditto that and ditto that just one more time for FULL EFFECT.

PAPER BALLOTS FOLKS. ACT ON THAT.

[dxdem]

10. When all else fails,

go back to bashing Clinton.

[colonel odis]

12. and all else -- everything they've touched, in fact -- has failed.

n/t

[dbonds]

11. Some may be scared of her, but this is nothing more than a

fund raising tactic. How do you make money, tell the con's the Clintons are coming back and thier free ride is over.

[UCLA Dem]

13. They must really be scared...I really don't know why...a dem woman is not

going to be elected president or probably any woman for that matter; not while the south is still voting in national elections!

[Voltaire99]

28. I doubt they're scared of Hillary at all. Who would be?

The real point of their bashing is to raise money. The Clintons are useful as bugaboos for filling GOP coffers.

I find this sideshow amusing--she's nearly as right wing as they are. If Finklestein were more honest, he'd welcome her as family.

[AlCzervik]

15. The more they bash her the more they paint her as a victim

when she ran for the senate they were bashing her all over the place and the public did not like it one bit, same thing will happen here.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

16. And don't forget

IT'S THE CLENIS!!!!! THE CLENIS DID IT!!!!! :crazy:
These people need a life.

[norml]

17. Rudy Giuliani To Run Against Hillary Clinton In 2006 For Her Senate Seat

Rudy Giuliani To Run Against Hillary Clinton In 2006 For Her Senate Seat


This Republican Party would never never nominate Rudy Giuliani to run for President. They are going to build their 2006 election campaign propaganda around the Rudy verses Hillary Senate race.



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[lancdem]

19. Rudy isn't running against her

His eye is on 2008, although I, too, doubt he'd ever get the nomination.

[norml]

21. Oh yes he is. The RNC/GOP are going to build their 06 campaign around it.

In 2006 I'll be linking to these posts, and saying "I told you so".

[Maine-ah]

18. ooooh, I like this paragraph.

"STOP HER NOW is intent on revealing to the American public the TRUTH about just who Hillary Clinton really is. We're out to expose her as a confirmed left-wing radical and life-long liberal who long ago sold her soul to the divisive, radical and ultra-liberal special interest groups who see everyone as "victims" and want to use your tax dollars and the power of the state to make things right"



:scared: :sarcasm:

[David Zephyr]

20. What's funnier than Arthur Finkelstein's statement?

Question: What's funnier than Arthur's Finkelstein's statement below?

"A veteran GOP operative launched an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton Web site Tuesday, complete with an unflattering photo and a warning that she and her husband are trying to 'pull the wool over America's eyes once again.'"

Answer: The fact that Arthur Finkelstein and his "husband are trying to pull the wool over" American homophobes within the Republican Party.

Finkelstein, for those here who do not know, was recently "married" to his new husband in New York.

[w4rma]

22. This is major news, why? The website isn't even visited often.

Looks like a PR article for the GOP by the Associated Press.

Democratic Underground is more worthy of press than that Repug obscure website. We get quite a few celebrety visitors who actually come here and debate and listen.

This won't happen at that obscure GOP site.

[lovuian]

23. Veteran GOP operative launches anti-Clinton Web site

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3166136

Veteran GOP operative launches anti-Clinton Web site
Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — A veteran GOP operative launched an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton Web site today, complete with an unflattering photo and a warning that she and her husband are trying to "pull the wool over America's eyes once again."

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Meanwhile, Clinton was out with a fundraising letter claiming Arthur Finkelstein's "Stop Her Now" effort is part of a growing mound of evidence that Republicans "are prepared to do anything to defeat me."

"We know one thing for sure, the Republicans and their right-wing allies are going to be hitting us hard with false charges," the former first lady wrote to potential donors, calling herself "the Republicans' number one target in 2006."

Clinton is seeking re-election next year to the New York Senate seat she won in 2000 and Republicans claim she wants to use that race as a stepping stone to a 2008 presidential run. She insists her sole focus is on getting re-elected.

more...

Is it me or does a headline with the word OPERATIVE scream CIA!!!

[skylarmae]

24. Please, Hillary, be the best Senator New York has ever seen

and do not, I repeat, do NOT run for President in 08. Too much baggage and they will have her answering to old trumped charges the entire time. She will never escape Bill and his escapades. Just that simple....Let's not waste our change to get the White House back and if she is the nominee for the Democratic Party, IMHO we will lose.

[Avalon Sparks]

25. What would be fantastic is....

it would be great if she would pretend to run for the primary... all CONs would be fueling all their funding and support toward bashing her. Then she drops out at the last minute... and the jokes on them.

If I were Hillary that's what I would do.

[Bo]

26. Very nice ..avalon

Now thats "the art of war"

[The Donkey]

29. She'd be a fun candidate . . .

and maybe even a good president - but she'd have massive difficulty turning any of the red states blue. Through no real fault of her own - she's seen as very divisive.