Posted on 07/30/2005 8:16:03 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
The mastermind of Hillary Clinton's successful 2000 Senate race is urging the Democratic Party's liberal wing not to be upset over her alliance with the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, assuring critics that Hillary is still a left-winger at heart.
"It's much more important to look at what she does and how she votes, and not that she has associated herself with the DLC," Harold Ickes told the Washington Times on Friday.
Ickes reminded that Bill Clinton also came under fire from party liberals for his more centrist rhetoric. But they stuck with him because "his record in totality was extraordinarily progressive."
Ickes was responding to complaints from liberals this week, who went wild after Mrs. Clinton's Monday speech to the DLC.
"By aligning herself with the DLC, it is pretty well guaranteed that there will be somebody running for the [2008 presidential] nomination to her left," said Roger Hickey, co-director of the liberal group Campaign for America's Future. "She is going to have to choose between the DLC and the progressive activist base of the party," he warned.
In fact, Mrs. Clinton has a 95 percent rating with the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action. The American Conservative Union, meanwhile, gave Clinton a zero rating for her 2004 Senate votes. Her career ACU rating is just 9.
Still, while trying to assure critics that Hillary hadn't wandered completely off the liberal reservation, Ickes took pains not to paint her into a radical corner.
"It's hard to characterize her as an extreme liberal," he insisted to the Times. "She has a lot of progressive and liberal support, but Hillary is moderate in many of her positions."
Oh yes, please listen to her record.
Go back at least 20 years...........Please!
I think we can expect to hear over the next couple of years a lot more of this sort of shaving and smoothing of Hillary Clinton's views. It must be kept in mind that Dick Morris - who is in a position to know - said that Hillary Clinton is a doctrinaire left winger.
What a pathological human being.
The VERY FACT that a swarmy, unethical, snake like harold ickes is still running around behind her, cleaning up her poop and speaking out on her behalf tells everyone EXACTLY the kind of leeches she would again bring into OUR White House.
Never again.
All you have to know about harold ickes is his threat, on tape, to defacate on the floor of then the offices of Judicial Watch, as he spoke to Larry Klayman in a deposition to understand the maggots that hillary chooses to be her guard dogs.
It is ashame that the so called grown men in our Senate are afraid of hillary, a genuine thug.
She will lose it...she cannot sustain the seething anger that leaks out of her infested pores.
Oh Yeah...Hillary as President, Oh PUKE, as if America cannot wait to sell our White House once again as a spot of prostitution to the highest foreign bidder...cannot afford to have a heathen there who once before STOLE America's heritage that rests in the WH for her own private use when she left, America cannot afford to once again elect aged hippies, who never grew up, hire staff that are yes men and women instead of intellectual advisors, ol anti-war hippies who want to control the lives of the undereducated, especially the Blacks, keeping them down dumb and poor (only way to guarantee their votes is to keep them toeing the line, uninformed, and poor). And perhaps sickest of all, pathetically shallow hippies who care MORE what the network press will print about them, care MORE about popularity polls, than they do the national security interests of this nation. These HIPPIES are ALL EMBARRASSED that America is strong and dedicated to spreading freedom as it smashes terrorism along with its allies. These hippies want other nations to "Like us, REALLY REALLY LIKE US" and will do ANYTHING to win favor with foreign nations...we will NEVER sacrifice our nation into the hands of this horror of a woman and a party that would have someone like harold dean, as its party leader. This is one sick bunch of immature socialists.
This horror would bring the likes of ICKES, PODESTA, TERRY LENZNER, Ira magaziner, all of hollywood, etc etc into our WH.
NEVER AGAIN!
NOT accurate.. "to get her AND BILL back into the White House.."
Look at what she did while 1st lady.. What could Bill do as 1st gentleman..
"When she speaks to leftist groups she assures them of her real intentions. The Clinton name is worshiped by millions of fools here. She has a VERY good chance of being president ..God help us all."
Totally agree. Let us also not forget that the Hollyweird folks have lots of $$$s and totally idolize the Clintoons - they'll be out in full force if she runs. OTOH, maybe that will back fire on them - a lot of 'regular' Americans are getting sick of the Hollyweird movies, T.V. shows and blather and think they should keep their noses out of politics. While their help seemed to do a lot for Bubba's campaigns, it didn't seem to do too much for AlGore or sKerry.
Actually, I bet she would tell Bill to get lost if she were ever elected president. She wouldn't need him any longer.
Wrong.. she would USE Bill like a rented MULE... just like the first time..
Television loves Hillary, and that's all that counts. People out here in the real world are tired of W. Unfortunately, that will translate into Democratic votes, instead of a commonsense reassessment of political values.
I've said it before: if the Witch Queen runs, she wins. I've got a standing $50 bet open to anyone on this. I haven't been wrong about a Presidential race since Carter (who could have predicted that?).
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"We are going to take things away from you for the common good"
I'm not looking at ANYTHING of Hillary's.
You nailed it. Harold Ickes is a very large bore.
bill, you have the emblam right. She's red all the way through.
If he's trying to tip off her base and potential lefty voters that everything's cool and she's still a commie, why would he say that in a conservative paper? That's more likely to tip off the less bright on the right who might have been fooled by her new "centrism".
Maybe Newsmax got it wrong and he told it to the NYTimes. OTOH he made a public statement several months ago that she couldn't win the general election...
Yeah I can pick 'em too, the intense stare, the shrill voices constantly interupting - just watch Colmbs on Hannity, they are on a mission, they really believe, they are insane! Their leaders, like the 'Bitch', work the imature, naive youth, ala the Communist Young Pioneers and the Hitler youth, these 'Frigging' people are dangerous all right and if they rise to power they will destroy this nation.
FLiP-FLoP...don't they ever learn?! No? Good! Let's keep it that way!! :)
Disregard the make-up and make-over, she's still an ugly woman beneath.
Are you perhaps thinking of Irksome Bowels (aka Erskine Bowles), as opposed to Ickes. Ickes, btw, is the son of one of FDR's notorious Marxist cabinet members, a red diaper baby right down to his shoes.
"she is well-loved by millions"
She is a democrat - and some democrats will vote for her because of that - because they don't give a rip that she's a liar and deceiver. They just want to be in power .. even if it destroys America.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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