Bill Clinton: Attack ads show Pataki is nervous

Newsday ^ | 9/20/02 | DEEPTI HAJELA

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Former President Bill Clinton said Gov. George Pataki's attack ads against Democrat gubernatorial candidate H. Carl McCall show that Pataki is nervous about McCall's chances of success.

The ads released this week accuse McCall of voting to raise taxes as a state senator 25 years ago, favoring restoring the commuter tax, and, as state comptroller, not doing enough to help the upstate economy.

"When a person who's supposed to have a big lead runs an ad like that which attacks Carl McCall ... for votes he cast between 23 and 30 years ago ... that's a dead giveaway that Governor Pataki thinks Carl McCall can win," Clinton told reporters Friday after a meeting with McCall's finance committee... CLICK

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Why would Pataki be nervous?

[MotleyGirl70]

Dollar Bill should just shut up and go away. Nobody cares what this jackass says.

[eureka!]

Who is Bill Clinton? Ahhhh yes, a grifting, predating ex President arguably responsible for 9-11. *spit*

[tcostell]

Wasn't he the guy who got caught jumping on the bed in the Lincoln bedroom with a half naked teenage intern?

[eureka!]

Nah. Not his style. You're thinking of some of his Hollywood friends he sold the room to....

[ex-Texan]

Pataki denied any nervousness about the campaign...... "I've never been frightened in any race," the Republican governor said after a speech to a Business Council of New York State conference at the Sagamore resort on Lake George.....Clinton said he would be supporting the McCall campaign, but he did not name a specific fundraising goal or say what other forms his support might take.

"I'm doing whatever I'm asked to do," he said. "We're friends, I'm going to help, whatever I can do."

In other words, Bubba is afraid if he doesn't horn-in Big Time, his wife, Senator Billary Bezel-bubba, will screw everything up and cost the Democratc Party the Governorship of the vital state of New York. That will eventally cost her the Presidential nomination as well.

Get ready for voters from three neighboring states to show up to vote in November .... given free rides to New York by friendly union schills ....

My prediction: This will be the New York dirtiest election in recent memory. Pataki better be ready to arrest hundreds of dead voters and make charges of election fraud stick to the likes of Bubba and Billary !

[princess leah]

Will Rudy stump for Pataki in this election?

[mewzilla]

Really, Bubba? If that's indicative of nervousness on Pataki's part, then one wonders what to make out of the fact that Carl has crawled into bed with you and the missuz...Care to put an interpretation on that?

[galt-jw]

hey bill, go roger some fat slut.

[ex-Texan]

I don't live in New York but my instincts tell me, "Yes, Rudy will campaign for Pataki."

[Steely Tom]

If running attack ads shows that a candidate is nervous, then pretty much every single Democrat in public office is nervous.

(steely)

[Darlin']

"Clinton told reporters Friday after a meeting with McCall's finance committee... "

OMG. Who in his right mind would let either Bubba or Blubber near their campaign's finances ? If that isn't reason enough to vote for Pataki I don't know what it would take. If there is one thing Bubba knows about it is dirty campaigning. He just lobbed one of his patented, nasty little sound bites and the press goobers are running with it. They make me sick, they're sooooo predictable. Make no mistake, if by some weird fluke McCall wins this thing Bubba and Blubber will be calling the shots and running the state.