Posted on 03/30/2008 8:18:44 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary
Rush Limbaugh isn't the only surprise supporter in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. Only thing is, this guy is for real.
Continuing the transition from No. 1 Clinton media enemy to political ally, Richard Mellon Scaife, publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a principal owner of NewsMax.com, met with Hillary Clinton and pronounced he now has a favorable view of the presidential candidate and may even endorse her in the Pennsylvania primary.
Noting that his paper had criticized some of Clinton's policies the very day she visited the editorial board last week, Scaife praised her courage for walking into what could have been a lion's den.
"Reading that, a lesser politician – one less self-assured, less informed on domestic and foreign issues, less confident of her positions – might well have canceled the interview right then and there," he writes in a special column today. "Sen. Clinton came to the Trib anyway and, for 90 minutes, answered questions. Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her."
Actually, though, Scaife's mind has been changing about the Clintons for some time, as WND previously reported.
Scaife said he found more areas of agreement with Clinton then disagreement – especially on the Iraq war and domestic policy matters.
"Does all this mean I'm ready to come out and recommend that our Democrat readers choose Sen. Clinton in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary?" he asked in his column. "No – not yet, anyway. In fairness, we at the Trib want to hear Sen. Barack Obama's answers to some of the same questions and to others before we make that decision. But it does mean that I have a very different impression of Hillary Clinton today than before last Tuesday's meeting – and it's a very favorable one indeed."
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Protection money.
Man is definitely on drugs or she has a file on him.
Well now I’ve heard everything.
Balls, lockbox....
Scaife’s coziness with Hillary is making quite a splash. With “conservatives” like him, Hillary and Barry don’t need more Soros’s.
Would you rather have Obama win the nomination?
The liberal MSM stuck us with McCain.
What's wrong with us having some fun, now that they're stuck between a rock and a hard place?
The HildaBeast has pictures of him with farm animals.
He has just been overwhelmed and swayed in his thinking by meeting someone he considers famous. I’ve seen it many times.
Unknown to Hillary, Scaife is a central participant in Operation Chaos. Rush has appointed him to help Hillary look good in Pennsylvania.
That’s an interesting question. I don’t know which one will be easier for McCain to beat in the general so I don’t think it makes a lot of difference, I could be wrong.
I do know that Scaife supported Murtha’s stance on pulling out of Iraq over two years ago and an editorial was written in the Trib two years ago January stating that. He then went on to support him against Diana Irey and Murtha is a corrupt and probably senile fool.
IMO Scaife went over to the dark side and I find him lacking when he supports or at least is impressed by a socialist like Hillary.
THAT’S what I was thinking.....LOL!
Nothing new with Scaiffe. He and his ‘conservative” paper endorsed Murtha over Irey. They wrote loosey goosey stories about Pigfoot and virtually ignored Diana.
Trouble is Rush really does support Hillary.
“Trouble is Rush really does support Hillary.”
Like a chair, under the feet of someone trying to hang themself.
This is disturbing at many levels. I never had any respect for Hillary, but would now have to put Scaife in POS LOSER list.
You accuse someone of ordering a murder of an aide (Vince Foster) and then because you can’t handle guy named Hussein may end up being the nominee, you endorse the Killer?
Hillary and Scaife, Rush and Carville, Dee Myers and Ann Coulter - Welcome to the Machiavellian Orgy.
“Would you rather have Obama win the nomination”
Absolutely! I want the Clintons back in Chappaqua ASAP.They will kill cheat and lie their way back to the White House. We can beat Obama later. We need to win Ohio and we have a better chance agin him.
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