Posted on 03/17/2005 7:39:46 AM PST by areafiftyone
STATE GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik is exhorting the party faithful to open their wallets so that Republicans can "soundly defeat" Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, with the result that "her hopes of running for president will wither on the vine."
Meanwhile, an adviser to Gov. Pataki, angered by a top Clinton strategist's dismissal of the governor as "an object of ridicule," responds: "It's obvious that Hillary's people have decided who they don't want to run against."
That's two "What color is the sky in your world?" moments.
Hillary Clinton is in great political shape — and has been ever since she took office.
After all, running as a rookie, she won by a solid 12 points; her 55 percent of the vote equaled the total won by the famously popular Daniel Patrick Moynihan in his last election.
Plus, no New York Democrat has ever been defeated for re-election to the U.S. Senate since direct elections for the office began in 1913.
And Minarik's attack — trying to stigmatize Clinton as a hard-core liberal — hardly seems like a winning idea in ultra-blue New York.
Pataki? He wasn't in such great shape even before the recent drop in his poll numbers. In 2002, running against a hapless Democrat who barely garnered a third of the vote, the governor couldn't even muster a majority of the ballots. And since then, Pataki's been emmeshed in one tawdry ethics incident after another.
The governor may dream of sitting in the White House, but he'd be hard-pressed even to win another term in Albany.
So Sen. Clinton isn't exactly cowering in fear in her Chappaqua basement at the thought of a challenge from George Pataki.
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Republicans AROUND THE COUNTRY should be contributing to this effort, because if the witch is unseated in 2006 she will be politically finished.
True but it seems Republicans don't feel that she is a danger. I don't know why but they don't think she can be a formidable enemy. I personally think she can win the nomination in 2008 if we are not careful! As far as beating her in NY State, there are no Republicans that can beat Hillary her in this state. Pataki can't beat Hillary and won't even try and Guiliani is not stupid enough to run for Senate and I don't blame him.
...trying to stigmatize Clinton as a hard-core liberal...
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Stigmatize??? That is like saying "it is ALLEGED that Joseph Stalin was a brutal Communist".... isn't the MSM great ??
IMHO the real question is does staying in the Senate hurt Hillary more than it helps her. A Senate voting record is a hard thing to hide as John Kerry just found out.
Here here!!
Condi Rice has now set a new standard. From now on any fat female politicians should be declared unconstitutional and stripped of their franchise.
Is she keeps moving to the middle - she's going to make everyone think she's a moderate. She's not stupid - she knows how to win and WIN SHE WILL!!! We have to make sure her run for president is a tough one or we might be looking at a Clinton White House again!
This may be so, but I am not sure that Pataki would be much better. Are there any full GOP platform supporting "Republicans" in the state of New York that can run for office?
Staying in the Senate has helped Hillary politically. She will no longer be a Junior Senator with little experience. That will help her! Don't underestimate Hillary - that woman has trained for years to be in politics and has a good coach (her husband)!
The ones who might run are Jeanine Piro and someone else (the name escapes me). Neither one will win against Hillary. Hillary is a shoe-in for the Senate.
Those are not her legs. Her legs look like beer kegs and believe me, I know what a beer keg looks like.
They are her legs when she was much younger and thinner. NOW she has middle age spread!
On the flipside...don't underestimate Middle America.
Yeah, right. This is the same Republican party that rammed through the nomination of sure-loser Howard Mills to run against Schumer last year. Mills held Schumer to 'merely' 70% of the vote.
Rudy could beat her, but he doesn't want to be a Senator - it's the second biggest nothing job in government, right behind vice-president. He's waiting for 2008. Who does that leave? Maybe Alan Keyes will move to NY - at least the debates would be interesting.
We can bring in another carpet-bagger (like HilLIARy) to run for Senator as a Republican.
Who has national recognition and would move here to run?
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