Posted on 02/08/2005 10:07:21 AM PST by BushisTheMan
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005 10:55 a.m. EST GOP to Launch 'Stop Hillary' Web site
A top political adviser to New York Governor George Pataki is reportedly planning to launch a web site targeting Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2006 reelection bid, in an apparent effort to duplicate the success of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in last year's presidential race.
The "Stop Her Now" Web site is the brainchild of Arthur Finkelstein, according to the New York Post. "The site could draw millions of dollars in anti-Clinton campaign cash from across the nation," a state GOP source told the paper.
The web domains StopHerNow.com and StopHerNow.org are owned by longtime Pataki aide Patrick Donohue. The development irked Howard Wolfson, Sen. Clinton's spokesman during her 2000 campaign. He complained that Finkelstein would run a "negative campaign of lies and distortions."
The decision to turn to the Internet is a defacto acknowledgment that the so-called "tough New York press corps" failed to do its job during Clinton's campaign five years ago, when a whole host of questions about the former first lady involvement in a number of controversies during the 1990s went unexplored.
Much the same thing happened during the 2004 presidential race, when the establishment press ignored over 200 veterans who served alongside Sen. John Kerry in Vietnam and said he was unfit to serve as commander-in-chief.
The Swiftvets succeeded in getting their message across using, first, the Internet and talk radio - and then cable TV later in the campaign.
Clinton accuser Kathleen Willey has already vowed not to let Sen. Clinton get away with sanitizing her history.
"I have some words of advice for the former first lady," Willey told NewsMax in November. "Remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth."
Me either...probably because they are just announced.
However, in searching I ran across several fun sites:
http://www.stophillarynow.net/
and this...
Hillary Wants $20.04 to Combat 'StopHillary' PAC
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton says she has no intention of running for president in 2004.
So it must be a coincidence that her fund-raising operation is soliciting contributions in the amount of $20.04 in response to former Congressman John Leboutillier's new "Stop Hillary" political action committee.
In late December, LeBoutillier, who also writes a column for NewsMax.com, announced his StopHillaryPAC on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," asking those concerned that Sen. Clinton might jump into the presidential race this year to donate $25 to his information campaign.
"I don’t think the Republicans have ever taken her seriously and are not taking her seriously in 2004," he told the New York Sun. "They’re ignoring her as a candidate."
On his Web site StopHillaryPAC.com, the conservative ex-congressman vows, "We are not going to let it happen again!" – a reference to the prospect of another eight years of Bill and Hillary in the White House.
That's what we thought in New York. But she managed to get all the way through her campaign without taking any positions. She just went on a "listening tour" of the state and heard from handpicked lefties. The press gave her a 100% free pass. And now she's the Senator who seems, in the cutaway shots, the most interested of all Senators in what the President has to say during his State of the Union addresses.
It seems that those comments would have been more widely reported in some circles. Of course, maybe I just missed them, that happens. But when it comes to Hillary, I am usually up to speed. The woman is dangerous, no doubt.
I still stick with my prediction though: She will not run for the Senate in 2006 (qualifier: if the Republicans have any viable candidate). Instead she will focus on the presidency and give a wide range of excuses for doing so, such as: 'I have accomplished as Senator all that I wanted to.... "I feel the people need a full commitment from their Senator".... "the people are asking me to Run for the presidency" ... blah blah and blah).
Heard of available bumper stickers: "Run, Hillary, Run"
Democrats put them on the rear bumper; Republicans put them on the front bumper.
This Rino ain't got a chance.
I'm leaning towards George Allen myself.
Count on me as a Registered Democrat New York voter to vote against her in the primary.
Be very afraid....(PINGS)
It won't be the same a the swift boat group. Too many are dead to lead the fight.
But if you count all the women Bubba has molested, raped, or sexually harrassed, it might be about the same number.
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