I feel safer with Alfred E. Newman than with Nurse Ratchet.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
"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."
Well then the GOP needs to quit being the enabler, i.e. bipartisian legislation that makes her look moderate.
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.
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.
And the best thing to do is let her keep on speaking.......
Open mouth, insert foot, chew vigorously....
Heck, Hillary is Human In Name Only
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!!
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.
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.
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!!!
Pray for W and Our Troops
I feel safer with Alfred E. Newman than with Nurse Ratchet.
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