ASHINGTON, March 31 - With 19 months to go before the elections and no opponent in sight, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is nonetheless warning her political supporters that she is the prime target of "the right-wing attack machine."Posted on 03/31/2005 9:17:23 PM PST by RWR8189
ASHINGTON, March 31 - With 19 months to go before the elections and no opponent in sight, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is nonetheless warning her political supporters that she is the prime target of "the right-wing attack machine."
In a fund-raising e-mail message sent out on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton's campaign also said her critics were preparing an advertising campaign against her similar to the one orchestrated by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that attacked Senator John Kerry's Vietnam service during the presidential election.
"The right wing is already getting ready, naming Hillary as their 'No. 1 target' and boasting about their 'Swift Boat' style ads," said the e-mail message, which was sent by Ann F. Lewis, the director of communications for Mrs. Clinton's campaign committee, Friends of Hillary. "Help us show the right wing that we will be ready and able to fight back."
In many respects, the fund-raising letter is a fairly standard piece of campaign literature, employing the kind of scare tactics that Republican and Democratic politicians routinely use to mobilize their supporters.
That said, the fund-raising solicitation exposes a side of Mrs. Clinton - fiery partisan - that she has rarely displayed in the four years since she arrived in the Senate, where she has won over many Republican colleagues with a nonconfrontational and even cordial style.
In an interview, Ms. Lewis said the e-mail message was largely sent in response to published reports that Republicans are creating a political action committee seeking to raise $10 million to run a campaign against Mrs. Clinton in 2006. The committee is reportedly going to model its campaign after the one that the Swift Boat veterans used in 2004 to attack Mr. Kerry's war record, Ms. Lewis said.
The Clinton e-mail solicitation - one of two sent this week - also suggests that her formidable fund-raising apparatus is gearing up for what her aides say could become a tough re-election season. To date, Mrs. Clinton has amassed $5.5 million in her war chest, according to the latest campaign disclosure statement.
Though Mrs. Clinton's popularity rating is high and New York Republican leaders have yet to find a candidate to run against her, people close to the senator say they expect Republicans around the country to pump money into New York in an effort to defeat her. Indeed, some Republicans say they believe that if they do not stop Mrs. Clinton in 2006, she will be in a strong position to run for the presidency in 2008.
In the 2000 Senate campaign, Mrs. Clinton spent nearly $30 million. She faced two Republican challengers: Rudolph W. Giuliani, who spent about $20.7 million before dropping out, and Rick A. Lazio, a congressman from Long Island who spent $40.6 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Let's win one for Terri!
The know about Alamo Girl's files and FR's archives ?
LOL.....TRANSLATION......"Clinton supporters gear up against the "TRUTH"
Where do I join this VRWC?
Where do I signup? :P
Didn't the WITCH say hundreds of times she isn't running?
I'm sorry, did Hillary sell out her former comrades in arms?
Yellow-journalism is running amock, and it isn't the Swiftboats.
/sarcasm
Indeed, Hillary has her own boat misadventures to account for. Hillary is gearing up her defense against charges she misappropriated coinage while serving as an assistant to Cheron, on the Tartarus ferryboat that travels the river Styx.
You don't really "join" the VRWC. You just announce, nay, proclaim that you are part of it.
In that case, I'M IN!!!!!
This is the liberal description of an organization like the Swift Boat Vets that made well documented claims that were rarely denied and never refuted. This is generally the case when you simply state the truth and have the backup necessary to prove it. Of course Hillary fears this kind of "Right Wing Attack Machine". Lies are much easier to handle than the truth, and we have Jack ("You can't handle the truth) Nicholson to remind of that whenever we get a little forgetful.
You're here!!!
See how easy that was. No forms to fill out. No blood tests to take. No Union dues.
Does anyone else ever have dreams about putting their hands around the throat of Ann Lewis?
Let's get 'em!!!!
The old grey lady needs to name names.
You already have. :-)
Did Hillary spend Christmas in Cambodia too?
Was Hillary ever in Cambodia?
Has she released her form 180? Did she vote to kill some senators?
OK, just makig sure, and you know what... YOU ARE 100% CORRECT! Because if I ever ran for something or god forbid ever did something, the media would point out that he "was a member of a popular right-wing website" You know like they did to Jerome Corsi.
Its funny how the left is constantly gearing up to fight this terrible Right Wing Attack Machine. Its always a big production number that requires a ton of effort. And what is this massive Right Wing Attack Machine? Its a small effort by a small group that does nothing spectacular, they merely stand up and tell the truth.
Let's get 'em!"
Swift Boat tactics? You mean truth-telling? She does have something to worry about.
Playing for keeps this time, aren't they?
I never knew a Clinton was on a Swift Boat. Shouldn't they be looking out for White Water Rafters?
I think we're going to have to set up the "Broom Stick Veterans for Truth" in Hillary's case.
Life's a bitch ain't it Hill, and like the SB adds, they will be true.
Always hard to counter the truth with lies, unless you are a demoncRAT with a willing demonic leftwing MSM rooting in the pig sty for you.
Actually an accolade.
You know like they did to Jerome Corsi.
Therefore the old gray lady's NY Slimes moniker.
I already see pantsuit stock going down.
"...her critics were preparing an advertising campaign against her similar to the one orchestrated by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth..."
Similiar to the one used against Kerry, meaning the truth.
The New York State GOP has yet to find an opponent for her, and doesn't seem to have much prospect of doing so. Rudy doesn't seem to want in the race.
So this is all a phony scheme. She's doesn't need this money for her 2006 campaign. She needs a slush fund that she can use to support activities in advance of 2008, and a source of funds to buy off other Democrats to support/endorse her in 2008 by transferring funds into their campaign accounts.
Just wait and see... there's gonna be a lot of Dems facing tough reelection battles in 2006 and 2008. If Hillary is playing banker, they'll be signing her praises all the way until inauguration day. Robert Byrd, Maria Cantwell, and a host of others will be tripping over themselves to let her "co-sponsor" their legislation and take all the credit when she wants it. And they'll be giving her cover when she needs it. Because they need her $$.
Back here in Washington, we have a good opponent waiting for Maria Cant-do-well
"Maria Cant-do-well"
LOL. I have a feeling there will be hell to pay for her in 2006 after the shenanigans of the 2004 vote counting.
Let's see, the last time Hillary talked about the VRWC was when Slick Willie was in flagrant bimbo eruption mode. I suppose he's feeling his oats again.
Gearing up for Operation Swift Boot......
You know...if the GOP won't front an opponent...the VRWC needs to .....paging Laz!!!!
We can only hope.
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