'Kantor Country' Gets Its Say

IBD ^ | May 4, 2008

[Kaslin]

Elitism: Days before Indiana's primary, Internet footage seemed to show a Hillary adviser and ex-Bill Clinton Cabinet secretary expressing contempt for the state. No surprise. Top Democrats don't have much use for "flyover country."

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When, in a PBS interview during the 1996 presidential campaign, Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor was asked to explain President Clinton's popularity, he remarked, "We all like to be loved."

But few inside the former first lady's campaign have much love for the longtime friend of the Clintons after seeing the YouTube posting of an excerpt from the much-heralded documentary of the 1992 Clinton campaign, "The War Room."

Kantor, who before serving as U.S. trade representative and commerce chief was chairman of the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992, is shown going over Indiana voter data with Clinton operative James Carville.

"Look at Indiana," Kantor says. "It doesn't matter if we win. Those people are sh**," apparently referring to Hoosiers.

Kantor last week said he was actually taking a shot at the George H.W. Bush White House, but the context strongly suggests otherwise.

Indiana is usually dependably Republican, but the heartland is much bigger than one state, and Midwestern values are viewed by many Americans as the essence of what this country stands for.

Has the Democratic Party abandoned voters in the open space between New York and San Francisco?

[gusopol3]

Here’s what Roger Stone says about it at the StoneZone.com:

TRIXSTER RATES OBAMA DIRTY TRICK

As dirty tricks go, the Mickey Kantor scam perpetrated on the Clinton camp by someone who is obviously for Barak Obama, has it all; racial hatred, audio, arguable unintelligible voices and no traceability. It’s a masterpiece, a classic. By sending everyone running to review the audio of the war-room it made fools of hundreds of journalists. It also served to remind how dated the act of my friend, James Carville has gotten. (Disclaimer - Carville is a friend and I like him)

[rod1]

Yes Micky has about as much tolerance and respect for Midwesterners as does Hillary for the secret service. She cursed them for eight years straight asd they protected her sorry but ample hide.

“Elitists” is the nicest term one could possibly call the Clintons and their assemblage.