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."
I miss the SLAP HILLARY website.
"I have some words of advice for the former first lady," Willey told NewsMax in November. "Remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth."
Wow. That's incredible.
Arthur Finkelstein is a hired political gun. Who's interests is he serving in doing this. Pataki has already announced he won't run for Senate, and I take him at his word. So who's behind this? Rudy? Someone else?
Oops.
Here's the link -- I love those "gnap" smurfs
http://members.tripod.com/~cchilds/gnap.html
Tried both sites, got nothing.
Rumors are that Pataki is considering a Presidential run in 2008.
Can someone get me the contact info for Finkelstein or Donohue?
Agreed, although I estimate his chances of securing the nomination, or the VP slot, at (to the sixth decimal) 0.000000.
But someone is going to be the Dem prez candidate in 2008. If Pataki has deluded himself into imagining he might be the Republican prez candidate, wouldn't he prefer to run against Hillary than against another, possibly stronger, opponent? So why would he want to knock her off in 2006?
I realize that this amounts to extreme, useless political speculation, buy hey!, we're political junkies here!
Hard to believe a Berkeley Prof. would say such a thing.
We need some balance here. How about posting a negative bio of Hillary? ;-)
Who in the Dem camp come to mind when you speak of a "stronger opponent" for Pataki?
Godd question. Is Che Guevara still dead?
But seriously, perhaps someone like pro-life Tim Roemer of Indiana, relatively moderate Hispanic Sen. Salazar of Colorado, Lieberman, maybe even John Edwards, much as he makes my skin crawl.
Go to the FR search engine. Put in THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON. (archives, match all words, order by post time)
Apparently it was not circulate enough, as I missed it. That is one that should be circulated a lot more!
Why? Let her run. She will be easy to beat.
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