Posted on 08/26/2007 11:38:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Vast army of 'Hillary haters' has claws out
By Jill Zuckman
Tribune national correspondent
August 26, 2007
DALLAS
Richard Collins, a wealthy Texas philanthropist, businessman and political aficionado, heaps praise on the woman he has set out to destroy, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).
"She looks like a winner," said Collins, sitting in his high-rise office with sweeping views of the city. "She's run a good campaign, very consistent, no mistakes."
But make no mistake about it: Collins is just one in a vast army of professional "Hillary haters" who are banking on Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee. Like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the 2004 election who denigrated John Kerry's military service in Vietnam, Collins and others are searching for just the thing that will crystallize the way voters think and feel about her.
And not in a good way.
Armed with new technologies and fueled by animus, they are bent on preventing "four more years" of Clintonism. Every old charge, it seems, is being repackaged and sold as new. Every rumor is given a new, blog-stoked currency.
The rise of the Internet has meant that more people are getting their message out without the expense of paper, postage or manpower. Anyone with a computer can weigh in on the political debate and alter a candidate's course, and Clinton opponents have started early.
With his affable demeanor and sixth-generation Texas twang, Collins, 60, is the force behind StopHerNow.com, a humorous and snarky Web site, as well as an independent expenditure group dedicated to stopping Clinton's march to the White House.
His efforts have included flying a StopHerNow.com banner over the site of the South Carolina Democratic debate, as well as a cartoon called "The Hillary Show,"
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If these people think that Hillary will be easy to defeat, they are fools.
If Hitlery is the Rodent nominee, conservatives will be motivated big time.
Where’s the Mega Barf Alert?
Hate them? No.
Hate the way they and their minions behaved when they were in the first time, and really, really don’t want them to get a shot at a rerun? Hell. Mother. Lovin’. YEAH. Mea maxima bleeping culpa.
They will be pimping her 24/7 next year and bash the Republican nominee constantly.
Your ex-wife?
That didn’t take long.
Golly, I wonder whose side Jill is on? She’s still trashing the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. Something about the word “truth” really sets the left off.
This glittering jewell of intelligence would probably deny the existance of "Bush Haters."
If the MSM would have reported the truth 10 years ago, this would not be necessary! Besides, some voters have a short memory.
You go boy!!!
She won’t be easily beaten but she can be beaten. The worst mistake we can make is to underestimate the Clintonistas.
Funny thing is most conservatives realize that while “hating” a candidate, such as Bush haters, was taught to us by the Dems, as they have carried the hate to levels beyond what is capable of the Christian right....BUT, now it is in play, so I feel no problem with “hating” Hillary to the same degree. The game is on!
Bump
Oh poor hillary...barf-o-la.
I must have missed the article on the "Bush haters" who have coordinated with the MSM to relentlessly bash this administration for the last 7 years.
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