Posted on 08/14/2006 6:59:22 PM PDT by Libloather
Can Tasini Pull a Lamont?
Underdog Hillary challenger thinks so, even if nobody else does; in basement HQ, he wonders why voters don’t see the parallels with Lieberman.
By Geoffrey Gray
Jonathan Tasini is walking the wrong way down Fifth Avenue. It’s just past noon the day after antiwar insurgent Ned Lamont beat stubbornly pro-war Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, and it ought to be the biggest day of Tasini’s campaign yet, since he’s been sounding the same themes against Hillary Clinton. He’d put this trip to the New York Public Library on his schedule, but the media didn’t seem to care much. Blazing heat all around, sweat seeping through his suit, and he’s pacing through midtown traffic in cowboy boots, trying to make it to the next stop—where is the protest against defense contractor Bechtel, again?—and at the same time shouting to different reporters through the dangling earpiece on his Treo. The cars are buzzing beside him. Fire trucks, too. But Tasini keeps moving, talking over sharp horns and engines into the earpiece, oblivious that in his rush he’s left two field volunteers—a couple of gray-haired hippie-ish women, one in a tie-dyed dress, both clutching campaign signs fashioned from mailing tubes—stranded on a corner.
“Jonathan! Jonathan!” one yells, desperate.
On he goes. Since announcing his senatorial candidacy in December, Tasini, a former union organizer with woolly political leanings, has been on a mission some politicos call feckless and virtually everyone calls quixotic. His paid staff consists of a press coordinator he hired through Craigslist, a campaign manager he met at a dinner party, and one paid field coordinator. They work out of a shabby West Village basement office that belongs to a political club. Cigarette butts rest in the hallway; strips of flypaper hang in the windows. “Unadorned,” Tasini says.
He believes Clinton has lost her progressive ways in gearing up for a possible presidential bid in ’08, and her fund-raisers with plutocrats like Rupert Murdoch drive him bananas. “She’s inauthentic. Everything is triangulated, every position is poll-tested, every word is carefully chosen,” Tasini enumerates. “She votes for an immoral war, supports the death penalty, promises jobs, and supports free trade—that destroys jobs in our state.” He’s still hoping for that Lamont bounce—then maybe people will listen. But Lamont, who spent $4 million of his own money on his campaign, refuses to endorse Tasini. The most recent filings show Tasini had $12,000 left in the bank after raising some $130,000 in mostly small donations; Clinton has $22 million on hand, and last week enthusiastically backed Lamont. “No hat, no cattle, no cash, no Tasini,” says Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Dem consultant. “He’s got an argument that doesn’t work, against a candidate where it won’t stick, in a state where no one cares. Other than that, he’s fine.”
Then again, Tasini points out that he was polling at about 13 percent in July, slightly higher than Tom Suozzi (then at about 10 percent against Eliot Spitzer) and about the same as where Lamont was—in February. The Clinton camp is on low alert. She’ll likely debate him on September 6, insiders say, but her people want to forbid Tasini from asking Clinton questions. Her spokesman, Howard Wolfson, says no plans are set. “We’ll see how the campaign develops.”
AAaaaahhhh, good to see the code words again.
The only way Tasini can beat the beast is if he pulls out the video of Hillary touting her Jewish roots.
And by the time that the NY primary comes around, Lamont will be 20 points behind Lieberman anyway.
Fact is new York likes celebrities.They dont care for spit if that celebrity is any friggin good, they just like to vote for a name. Nobody ever heard of this clown he hasnt a chance again st Hillary.
The beast is afraid of any unscripted venue.
What the the freaks @ DU or Kos say?
My questions to the slimy hag would be these:
(1) As Co-President, why didn't you and billy go after the people that were involved in the 1993 WTC bombings that killed 6 and injured over a 1, 000???
(2) As Co-President, why didn't you and billy go after the people that killed 5 US military personnel in the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia?
(3) As Co-President, why didn't you and billy go after the people that killed 19 and injured over 200 US military personnel in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia?
(4) As Co-President, why didn't you and billy go after the people that killed 224 and injured over 5,000 in the 1998 bombing of the US embassies in Africa?
(5) As Co-President, why didn't you and billy go after the people that killed 17 and injured 39 US sailors in the USS Cole attack?
(6) What makes you think you are President material after being involved once, looks like you couldn't do any better the second time...
(7) When are you coming out of the closet and quite parading around as a 'married' woman who, by your words" I was so upset I couldn't breath" when you found out about Monica, what about all the others? Junita Broderick, Jennifer Flowers, etc. etc???
(8) When are you and billy leaving the country and join a terrorists group so you can hug another 'woman' of a terrorist?
Her R opponent is polling 34%, according to his campaign.
Hillary hasn't lost her progressive ways.
This woman wants to nationalize 14% of the American economy, she helped pardon Marxist FALN terrorists, she supports the World Federalist Association (one world UN government), and openly says the family should be replaced by shrinks, teachers, and social workers. The talk about Iraq is all for show, but the moonbat base places higher value on authenticity than strategery -- a YEEEEAGGH! is often more valuable to them than winning.
Anywaym, if Hillary doesn't get Liebermaned, she must be defeated, whatever the cost.
If I were her, and everything she has done in her life, and all the people she 'hugs' etc....I would be sick and tired also...
Its a good idea to get all those quotes and print them back everytime there is a thread on the slimy hag....
"Not only NO, but HELL NO on the hag going back to the WH"
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