Posted on 01/22/2006 6:47:48 PM PST by andie74
WASHINGTON In the past week, the Bush and Clinton camps have traded nasty words and asides in a series of exchanges with faint echoes of the 1992 presidential campaign.
On the surface, the most recent skirmishing seemed to start with assertions by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, that Republicans were running Congress "like a plantation," and that the Bush administration would "go down in history as one of the worst." But strategists in both parties said the hostilities were more likely the opening shots of the 2008 presidential campaign season.
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The battle has been building for weeks. In late December, people close to the senator were struck when the president himself took a shot at Clinton and her New York colleague, Senator Charles Schumer, for blocking the renewal of the Patriot Act. He said the two owed an explanation to voters in New York, a prime target of terrorists.
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Hillary sure knows how to keep her new friends!!!
Read this little article...sounds like the only nasty, enemy making anger is coming from the Beast!
Oh, I agree...but the spin is on...and the race has begun.
Nothing that I can think of that might be worse that the Clintons back in the White House...unless Michael Moore were elected commander-in-chief...
(shudder)
That's one lil ol problem these rats have... they're going to need to get used to the idea that they're not running against Bush again. That's going to be hard for them to do.
He who believes that Hillary Clinton has any chance of becoming President has the political IQ of a chicken.
I said almost the same thing about her husband in 92...
That IS problematic, ain't it? Well, they've got to start swinging now, though Bush is just a practice target.
Hillary Clinton is not Bill Clinton, he is vastly more charismatic and much less mean than her. Just listen to her giving a speech and you know that she cannot win a Presidential election.
Yes, I know what you mean...I can barely stand to listen to her.....I never thought she'd win NY either.....but this move of her's to the right may fool a lot of people....
The Donks need a Ross Perot, 2008 vintage.
Wonder who's the designated fall guy? Who is going to be credible enough to pull the "balanced budget" train this time? They've got to keep their duplicity secret through the whole campaign, too - in the face of the Internet...
Jeez, after Mapes & Rather, you'd think they might have figured out that the extreme media air-brushing technique won't work for the Cankle. It'll only fool 38 percent - and they're idiots who want to be fooled anyway.
I'm DYING to see their gambit. It'll be amusing, to say the least.
Yeah, I'm not writing her off for sure!!!
Yeah, I'm not writing her off for sure!!!
I don't doubt it about Clinton but I suspect Bush looks ahead toward 2008 with a sense of relief. Nobody in recent history has had to put up with anything remotely like the lies, bigotry, and character assassination he has endured.
NO CANKLES IN '08!
Now that was funny, I don't care WHO you are!
George 'W' Bush isn't running for President in 2008. The democrats must have been deathly afraid of Jeb running in 2008 and decided to trash 'W' so when Jeb ran they could simply say "he's just like his brother". They have spent so much of their capital trashing Bush, if the nominee is someone with no Bush ties, the RATs are toast.
My theory: just batting practice for the Dems. Their base hates Bush, so they need to keep them energized. Meanwhile, they are alienating most of the states where they need to gain ground.
Then they are toast.
With only one exception, no one from either this term or last term is even anywhere near running for president.
The senators by default, can't even be really connected other then the same political party.
The one exception is such an outside long shot, it wouldn't matter anyway, and he was basically forced out (Tommy Thompson).
Ironically, since they spent so much capital bashing Bush, any republican who has ever critized Bush automatically looks independent.
It includes all the moderates, and even Allen has critized Bush on a couple of things...ironically, immigration and spending, but not in anyway notable.
It's dangerous to underestimate the stupidty of the average American voter....
Our leftist controlled Government Skools have succeeded in dropping intelligence to the lowest common denominator...
Look how close Gore and Kerry came --- and they didn't have much claim on the "feminist" sluts....
Being the first ever woman at the top of a major party ticket - would bring woman to the polls that haven't voted in decades....even the dead ones.
Hillary CAN win -- especially if the GOP runs a loser like McCain...
Semper Fi
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