Posted on 03/25/2006 3:48:16 AM PST by Liz
EXCLUSIVE
ALBANY - A Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons........... Former Reagan-era Pentagon official Kathleen "KT" McFarland stunned a crowd of Suffolk County Republicans on Thursday by saying: "Hillary Clinton is really worried about me, and is so worried, in fact, that she had helicopters flying over my house in Southampton today taking pictures"..... "She wasn't joking, she was very, very serious, and she also claimed that Clinton's people were taking pictures across the street from her house in Manhattan, taking pictures from an apartment across the street from her bedroom" .........
McFarland spokesman responded that the GOP hopeful was just kidding around with her far-fetched claims. "It was a joke, and people laughed," O'Reilly insisted. But three witnesses who were present said nobody in the audience cracked a smile. "The whole room sort of went silent when she said it," one person said. "You could see peoples' jaws drop after she said it. A guy next to me just turned to me and said, 'I guess she didn't take her Xanax today,' " the witness added.
Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson denied any spying was going on. "We at the Hillary campaign wish Ms. McFarland the best and hope she gets the rest she needs"...... But Wolfson couldn't resist a sharper gibe at McFarland's oddball remarks. "Some campaigns hand out campaign buttons; the McFarland campaign hands out tinfoil hats with antennas," he quipped.
McFarland's Republican primary opponent, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, was present at the event, and said he came away bewildered. "I'm standing there, and I kind of put my head down and said, 'I can't believe I'm hearing this,' "
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black helicopters, tin foil hat.
She should join up with Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones on the Sept. 11 kooky conspiracy theories.
It's not the accuracy of the claim that matters but rather the seriousness of the charges....
She's one wigged-out RINO, alright.
Hey Toots! She's got yer FBI file too!!!!
I don't think it's too far-fetched that one political candidate would be scouting another. Taking pictures from an apartment across the street is would surprise me from someone who ordered up the FBI files on her opponents a few years back. The helicopters might be a little over the top, but hey, Hillary has plenty of money in her campaign fund.
Since this involved Hillary then it most likely is true..I just hope Hillary doesn't pull out those files or maybe she doesn't have any files on this woman and is trying to get something..I would not put this past the witch at all as crazy as it sounds it is probably true..
Course it isn't unusual.......but done in those cases when you've got a legit opponent.
What does Hillary have to worry about from this chick?
Even if this stuff was true, a legit candidate would have kept mum, realizing the media brouhahah making such statements would engender..........not to mention public disbelief.
McFarland's declaration that she's not an evangelical Christian prompted a major backlash from the state's leading evangelical organization. "This will definitely come up during her campaign because I, for one, will bring it up," the Rev. Duane Motley, leader of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms who described his group as the state's largest association of evangelical Christians, with 2,000 affiliated churches representing more than 500,000 parishioners
McFarland said in a confidential campaign-strategy memo written last year "Our family worships in the Episcopal Church, but we are not evangelical."
McFarland, a wealthy Park Avenue matron and former Reagan-era Pentagon official, went on to add that many liberal Republicans "feel alienated by the current conservative direction" of the national party.
"She insinuating that evangelicals are the religious right and they're controlling things in the country. Well, evangelicals are not running the country, I wish they were, but they're not, said Motley"
Amen.
I wouldnt put it past Illary's peep-le!~}
Americans who regularly attend worship services and hold traditional Christian religious views increasingly vote Republican, while those who are less connected to religious institutions and more secular in their outlook tend to vote Democratic, according to a major study by the Pew Forum.
Some of the conclusions of this report were already evident in 2004 exit polling data. For example, voters who attend church more than once a week (16 percent of all voters) chose Bush over Kerry by a margin of 64 – 35 percent.
Likewise, those who attend Christian denominational Churches on a weekly basis (26 percent of voters) supported the President by a 58 – 41 percent margin. Also very telling, those who never attend Church (15 percent of voters) overwhelmingly supported Kerry 62 – 36 percent.
The study further found that traditionalist elements within each religion tended to vote Republican, while modernist groups within the religions trended towards the Democrats. A multiple regression analysis of exit poll and public opinion survey data from 2000 and 2004 enabled the Pew Research Center to assign a relative weight to various demographic markers.
Interestingly, church attendance was tied with race as the most significant factor. But even that number is deceiving; in that race is only an important factor due to the high level of support the Democrats receive from black voters.
These trends represent a major shift over the past forty-five years. White Christian Evangelicals in 1960 favored Democrats by a two-to-one margin; now they are Republican by a 56 – 27 percent margin. Seventy-eight percent of them voted for President Bush in 2004.
In 1960, 71 percent of Catholics were Democrats and now Democrats have only a slight edge among Catholics (44 – 41 percent) and Catholics voted for President Bush (52 – 47 percent) in 2004. These trends have also brought an increased acceptance of religion in the public square.
While Americans do tend to favor the separation of church and state, 70 percent of voters want their President to have strong Christian religious beliefs. Likewise, the study reveals that 52 percent of Americans believe that Christian churches should express political views. Surprisingly, support for political involvement of churches is strongest among younger voters age 18 to 29 (59 percent).
Well it sounds to me she is another Hillary Clinton crazy as a loon..I will go and read about her right now..
RINO has not a conserative bone in her body......and she's an unrepentant Christian-hater to boot.
Why does your New York Post graphic keep switching to the sports page??!!??
Oh, man. Getting an honest and humorous (and well deserved) slam from the Hitlery campaign. That's about as bad as it can get.
Nice shot, Mr. Wolfson.
Now maybe Ms. McFarland can get back on her Xanax and allow an honest and sane campaign to continue.
This story made the NYP front page---the F/P graphic includes the B/P sport feature.
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