[NativeNewYorker]

Belinda Stronach

[COBOL2Java]

Hillary run out of testicular lock boxes?

[cmsgop]

GO BILL GO!

[prion]

"Any move Bill makes on Belinda will spell D-I-V-O-R-C-E," says the story,

No way! That would kill Hillary's chance at the White House. Now, maybe it would spell S-U-S-P-I-C-I-O-U-S D-E-A-T-H for Bill. That I can picture her saying.

[Loyalist]

Get the full story on Belinda Stronach at www.freedominion.ca, www.belinda.ca, and stronach.blogspot.com

[InvisibleChurch]

never a divorce ... can't testify against each other

[demnomo]

The "bimbo riot act?" C'mon, Hillary, you should know by now that your dog ain't gonna behave.

To think that liberal women hold her up as a "feminist role model." Thank goodness, I left the Left behind. Liberal women are bimbos to view these two as heroes. Gag. Puke. Retch.

[xp38]

This doesn't mention that she is running for the newly united right wing party in Canada. What's that line about odd bed partners?

[boothead]

Found out where ole Bill got Hillary. Found her in an ad.

To let or to lease, for the term of her life She's old and she's ugly-Ill tempered and Thin

For further particulars, Inquire within.

John Rodman

[Steve Eisenberg]

Hmm. If true this would be the first hook-up of two erstwhile, or would be erstwhile, world leaders since -- Anthony and Cleopatra? (There must have been a better way to phrase that.)

Of course, it is not true.

[isthisnickcool]

Some photos from her web site.

[luvbach1]

There will be no divorce. Hitlery will "stand by her man."

[LaGrone]

Arkancide redux, but on who?

[WV Mountain Mama]

Why would his sex life hurt Hillary's run when it didn't hurt his?

[RJL]

the story, which quotes a source as saying "she's sexy and brilliant."

Doubtful, Bill seems to like his women rather thick, and if she’s spending time with Bill, she’s not anywhere near brilliant.

[McGruff]

Apparently she's a good guy.

Belinda Stronach Great Right Hope

The question is whether she can emerge as the next heavyweight champion of Canadian conservatism.

BRUCE CHEADLE, CP 2004-01-18 06:04:55

OTTAWA -- She is political pugilism's version of the Great Right Hope, the poster-girl package touted by the backroom boys as the next heavyweight champ of Canadian conservatism. But whether Belinda Stronach, the millionaire chief executive of Magna International, can dance in the squared circle of federal politics -- or take a punch from her many adversaries -- is virtually impossible to handicap on the eve of her formal entry into the fight for the leadership of the new Conservative Party of Canada.

Since word leaked two weeks ago she was seriously considering a bid, followed up last week with word Stronach definitely would run, she has made but a single, spare public statement.

"Citizens are encouraging me to run," Stronach told a CBC reporter in Detroit during the North American International Auto Show. "It's something I'm looking at and considering very seriously."

All subsequent interview requests have been put off until her official campaign launch, expected Tuesday.

Her reluctance to say anything beyond those carefully measured words was made abundantly clear Friday when she was reached directly on her cellphone and asked about MP Chuck Strahl's decision not to run for the leadership.

"I'm going to hand you to someone else," she said quickly, then passed the phone to an aide.

Many of her myriad organizers, among them some of the most experienced conservative political operatives in the country, have been almost as difficult to reach.

Yet there's been no want of media coverage, despite the absence of the "air war" typical of most leadership campaigns.

Stories about her political ambitions have been near the top of the news, including huge front-page photos in several major Ontario dailies.

Politically correct letters to the editor already have groused that few news stories fail to mention Stronach's looks.

But apart from the 37-year-old's lofty corporate title (she's president and chief executive of her father Frank Stronach's auto parts company), multimillion-dollar pay package (worth $12.5 million in 2003) and elegant appearance, not a great deal else is known about the twice-divorced mother of two.

Unlike Brian Mulroney, another political outsider who once vaulted to leadership from the corporate sector, Stronach has not honed her public speaking skills as a favoured speech-maker at business gatherings.

Business analysts in Toronto are loath to talk on the record about Stronach and even in anonymity one would only say "she's an unknown commodity. They keep her hidden."

Another called Stronach "a bit of an enigma."

Magna's decentralized corporate structure, in which individual manufacturing plants are largely independently run, makes it difficult to assess Stronach's managerial contributions, said one market watcher.

"It's not a company where you can easily point to one person and say they've done, this, this, this and this."

Rick Anderson, a longtime political strategist for the PC, Reform and Alliance parties, has known Stronach for 10 years and calls her a "next generation" manager who uses consensus to fuse a wide variety of advice.

"She's got this amazingly interesting ability to keep sussing out of people parts of this (political process) that are actually interesting and different and varied and not all of a kind -- and building confidence with people in her," said Anderson, adding he is not part of her campaign team.

Stronach's politics are virtually unknown. Her father once ran for office as a Liberal and Magna has contributed corporate funding to a variety of political parties and politicians.

Stronach herself played a brokerage role in getting the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives to the negotiating table last summer. Former Ontario premiers Mike Harris and William Davis are endorsing her leadership bid.

[hole_n_one]

From the Calagary Sun.......

Stronach link to Clinton refuted

By MARIA MCCLINTOCK, OTTAWA BUREAU

OTTAWA -- Conservative leadership candidate Belinda Stronach's "close friendship" with former U.S. president Bill Clinton has been splashed on the front page of a popular American supermarket tabloid. The blaring headline in the Feb. 17 edition of Globe reads: "Hillary screams Divorce over Bill's new Blonde!"

The Globe, which sells hundreds of thousands of copies in North America, said Clinton's wife New York Senator Hillary Clinton is threatening her hubby with divorce unless he ends his relationship with the former CEO of Magna International Inc. because it's hurting her own political ambitions to become president.

The pair have been spotted together on a number of occasions, including in 2002 at the Toronto restaurant Truffles, and the story suggests they were also skiing in Aspen last month.

The racy paper reports Hillary Clinton read her husband the "bimbo riot act" at news her husband and Stronach had plans to meet last month during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"Forget about this blonde," the Globe reports Hillary Clinton telling her husband. "I want you to concentrate all your attention on my political career, not hers!"

Stronach didn't go to Davos.

According to an insider quoted in the story, Mrs. Clinton "seethed with jealousy and annoyance as their friendship generated speculation of an affair in the American and Canadian press."

Stronach's campaign spokesman Mark Entwistle called the article "absolutely ridiculous on all counts, on all its substance and content."

Speaking from Halifax where Stronach and her rivals Stephen Harper and Tony Clement were campaigning yesterday, Entwistle denied Clinton is acting as a political adviser to Stronach and that the pair are romantically involved.

"They know each other from various charity events and that's it," he said.

"She entered into this (leadership campaign) with eyes wide open, she talked to a lot of people ... one of the things she was warned about by various associates and friends ... is that this kind of stuff happens. She knows it's part of the landscape."

[LisaMalia]

As outlandish as the tabloids may be, anything they print would pale in comparison to the real saga of the Clintons.

[Moose4]

No wonder Bill might like her. He tends to go for well-endowed women.

So what is it going to do to a woman who wants to be leader of Canada's Conservative Party if it leaks out that she's boinking America's most prominent Rat? Will anybody up there care?

}:-)4

[Lancey Howard]