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GOP blasts Clinton's 'Mad' jab at Bush
Huston Chronicle ^ | July 12, 2005 | MARC HUMBERT

Posted on 07/12/2005 4:28:09 AM PDT by yoe

Republicans took aim at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday for a speech comparing President Bush to Mad magazine's freckle-faced, "What, me worry?" kid, Alfred E. Neuman.

A Republican National Committee official said the former first lady was "part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party," while a spokesman for one of her potential 2006 Senate rivals said she was guilty of "insulting the president."

"At a time when President Bush and most elected officials are focused on the security of our nation, Mrs. Clinton seems focused on taking partisan jabs and promoting her presidential campaign," said New York's GOP chairman, Stephen Minarik. "Her priorities are clearly out of whack."

Clinton's attack on the president came Sunday during a speech in Colorado.

"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington," Clinton said during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival, organized by the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

The former first lady drew a laugh when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catch phrase: "What, me worry?"

It wasn't the first time that Clinton had likened Bush to the Mad kid. In April, she told New York Daily News reporters and editors, "We're in a very dangerous fiscal situation, and this administration is Alfred E. Neuman — what, me worry?"

As Clinton gears up for a Senate re-election race in New York next year and a possible White House presidential bid in 2008, her attacks on Bush have become sharper.

In her speech Sunday, she accused the president of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich, depriving U.S. soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funds for scientific research.

"Hillary Clinton's opportunistic attempt to market herself as a centrist is like a wolf dressing up in sheep's clothing," said RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt.

"Such thinly veiled rhetoric doesn't change the fact she is part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party."

While polls show her to be leading the pack among potential 2008 Democratic presidential contenders, Clinton has said she is too wrapped up in her Senate work and re-election effort to think about that.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alfredeneuman; hillary; madmagazine; sawityesterday; stephenminarik; traceyschmitt
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To: PGalt
Anti-wife, anti-woman. Anti-freedom, anti-life.

Terrorists are often referred to as a "cult of death".

The real cult of death is the militant abortion crowd!

Half of all abortions are girls.

They are willing enthusiasts of a self-exterminating holocaust!

21 posted on 07/12/2005 5:35:07 AM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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To: advance_copy
Years ago I read a joke in MAD magazine that reminds me of Hillary:
"I love all the poor people and I love all the sick people. Nothing makes me happier than to see a bunch of poor sick people."
22 posted on 07/12/2005 5:52:21 AM PDT by The Brush
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To: yoe
Of course later this week we'll hear from the Dimocrats that the President isn't being a "uniter". They (Pelosi, Reid, Clinton) call him loser, liar, thief, power-grabber, Alfred E. Newman, incompentent, etc. But he's dividing the country, you see.
23 posted on 07/12/2005 6:06:40 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: yoe
This little communist #itch has to be supported by the DNC and the democrat party.Her and her better half robbed the American people stole everything they could lay their hands on and then talk about other people how crooked they are.What a lowlife pair but the democrats love this type.
24 posted on 07/12/2005 6:06:40 AM PDT by solo gringo (Liberal democrats And Flori-duh judges are parasites)
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To: geezerwheezer
Everything you wrote is correct....now see if you can get the MSM to print it...chances are?

I would settle for just getting those on our side of the fence to say it.

Everytime these commies say "tax cut for the RICH", our retort should include the explanation as to just who the "rich" are in our country, this particular segment of our population is composed completely of ENTREPRENEURS, EMPLOYERS, AND INVESTORS.

25 posted on 07/12/2005 6:13:31 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
There are many anti-life, anti-freedom individuals operating in the world.

The irrationality that this sociopath exhibits everytime she opens her calculating mouth are the filtered product of much worse thoughts flowing through her demented mind.

26 posted on 07/12/2005 6:22:58 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
There are many anti-life, anti-freedom individuals operating in the world.

The irrationality that this sociopath exhibits everytime she opens her calculating mouth are the filtered product of much worse thoughts flowing through her demented mind.

27 posted on 07/12/2005 6:24:46 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: trebb

"Look directly at the camera and ask the public if they want this kind of boor in the White House."

You sure you want to do that? Many conservatives profess to not even own a television. Most here say they don't watch tv very much. On the other hand, Jerry Springer and Oprah have no shortage of viewers.
I think if you look in the camera and ask that question, the overwhelming response would be... "Dude, that would be soooo cool."


28 posted on 07/12/2005 6:40:39 AM PDT by brownsfan (Post No Bills)
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To: yoe

Well then the GOP needs to quit being the enabler, i.e. bipartisian legislation that makes her look moderate.


29 posted on 07/12/2005 6:42:33 AM PDT by maxter
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To: brownsfan

Sad to say it, but you are most likely right that the Dims' would love to have some crass, amoral serpent in the White House to represent them.


30 posted on 07/12/2005 6:51:39 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: maxter
Well then the GOP needs to quit being the enabler, i.e. bipartisian legislation that makes her look moderate.

That will never happen. With the exception of a small conservative base, the Democrats and Republicans are on the same page. Hillary is reaching down to the low class masses by acting low class herself. Their idea of statesmanship is Billy Carter on his worse day.

31 posted on 07/12/2005 7:18:38 AM PDT by swampfox98 (How America became a nation of traitors: Greed, corrupt politicians and religious leaders.)
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To: PGalt
The anti-freedom, rapist enabler speaks.

And the best thing to do is let her keep on speaking.......

Open mouth, insert foot, chew vigorously....

32 posted on 07/12/2005 7:20:26 AM PDT by Thermalseeker
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To: MinuteGal
WINO= Woman In Name Only

Heck, Hillary is Human In Name Only

33 posted on 07/12/2005 7:37:47 AM PDT by mountn man (Everyone brings joy into a room. Some when they enter. Others when they leave)
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To: wayoverontheright

I'm with you all the way,but it seems as though the Repubs can't get the word out because the MSM will not give them equal time on the front pages or on the National news shows.I think that tells all of us to stay alert and to pay attention to what is really happening, and this also explains the recent upsurge in readership on the internet blogs like Free Republic, et.al.Thank God for them otherwise I would still think I was the only American who thought the way I think!!


34 posted on 07/12/2005 11:34:40 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: yoe
Hillary can get away with anything. And this President will constantly kiss and makeup. Sort of like an abused spouse, eh? The 5-6 year effort by GWB and GHWB to "rehabilitate" and make nicey-nicey with these monsters deserves the results it has generated: Personal decline in respect (i.e., popularity) for GWB by the base...and the objects of this misdirected compassion and all of his "pearls" for them...they have merely turned and rended GWB.

Wonder how far she is going to make GWB "bend over" using those 900+ FBI files she has? The Xlintons accomplice post facto.

They should have been in orange jump suits with leg irons and still occupying a dingy cell somewhere.

35 posted on 07/12/2005 1:54:40 PM PDT by Paul Ross (George Patton: "I hate to have to fight for the same ground twice.")
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To: yoe

But the Clintoons are such Bush buddies. They deserve each other. Awarding Ted Kennedy, heaping undeserved and untruthful praise on the Clintoons at portrait unveiling, having Clintoon over to Kennebunkport... The Bushes aren't all that great after all.


36 posted on 07/12/2005 3:02:12 PM PDT by bushfamfan
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To: yoe

It's about time the GOP speaks out against this overrated person. I just got another request today for funds frm the GOP and they are getting NOTHING (which I told them last time when I sent back their information)until I see who the judges are, and until I see some GOP backbone against a lot of people like the left. Stand up for God's sakes you people in the GOP and thenb take the big bucks you make and go out and buy some courage!!!


37 posted on 07/12/2005 8:56:16 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever know! :))
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To: yoe
What me worry, said the Doormat!

Pray for W and Our Troops

38 posted on 07/12/2005 8:59:03 PM PDT by bray (Did you buy a Soldier Lunch Today??)
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To: yoe
This is it, the speech that should be made by Dick Cheny on the Sunday morning talk shows !

Kohbar Towers. What, me worry?

The Embassy in Tanzania. What, me worry?

The Embassy in Kenya. What me worry?

The U.S.S Cole. What, me worry?

Oklahoma City? Blame talk radio aka Rush Limbaugh.

"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington,

39 posted on 07/12/2005 8:59:22 PM PDT by John Lenin (Everything the RATS have done since 2000 has been a boomerang disaster)
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To: yoe

I feel safer with Alfred E. Newman than with Nurse Ratchet.

40 posted on 07/12/2005 9:03:15 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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