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Hillary Has Met Her Match (Pirro Watch)
cbsnews.com ^ | 8/10/05 | Harry Smith

Posted on 08/11/2005 3:06:42 AM PDT by beyond the sea

Well, this could be something to watch. Jeanine Pirro, the district attorney for Westchester County in New York, announced today that she is running for the Republican nomination for the Senate. Assuming she wins, that sets up a potential whale-of-a-race between Pirro and Senator Hillary Clinton.

For those of you who haven't seen her, Pirro is a knockout on television. I have interviewed her numerous times, and, in news parlance, she spits sound bites. Always prepared and always insightful, she knows how to play the media like a drum.

A moderate, Pirro has been honing her views in the last 24 hours or so to be a little more user friendly to conservatives. That's to be expected.

Republicans are beside themselves; candidates with this much potential just do not come around that often. But, there is just this one thing: I checked candidate Pirro's new Web site today, and what it doesn't mention is her husband, a guy who has actually done hard time for tax evasion.

Jeanine Pirro has done a remarkable job of distancing herself from her husband's legal problems, but the elephant in the room, sorry for the pun, is Albert Pirro. Funny how these things turn out.

Hillary Clinton's husband has a degree of notoriety himself. And while Clinton haters can't believe she's been elected in New York, those of us who have watched her campaign know she is a force to be reckoned with. Her popularity in the state is soaring, and she is a devilishly hard worker.

If you like politics, this could be fun to watch.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: campaign; clinton; election; hillary; jeanine; pirro; senator
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"For those of you who haven't seen her, Pirro is a knockout on television." ---- she was great yesterday.

"Jeanine Pirro has done a remarkable job of distancing herself from her husband's legal problems, but the elephant in the room" ---- I guess Hillary has a whole herd in the room.

1 posted on 08/11/2005 3:06:44 AM PDT by beyond the sea
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To: Mia T; doug from upland; Lazamataz
Her popularity in the state is soaring, and she is a devilishly hard worker.

He could have stopped at "devilish".

2 posted on 08/11/2005 3:09:22 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: beyond the sea

In any debate, Jeanine Pirro would blow Hill away. Of course, the MSM would call it a Hill win. Hill's definitely got problems.


3 posted on 08/11/2005 3:11:40 AM PDT by hershey
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To: beyond the sea

Pirro, yet again, underestimated by even the likes of that stooge Harry Smith. Of course, you'll never see any media figure like Harry Smith dredge up any skeletons from Hillary's closet.


4 posted on 08/11/2005 3:17:32 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: beyond the sea
I checked candidate Pirro's new Web site today, and what it doesn't mention is her husband, a guy who has actually done hard time for tax evasion.

If you were an honest writer, Harry, you would have told us if Hillary mentions her husband being impeached and losing his law license on HER web site.

But then, women are supposed to be respected for and rated on their OWN accomplishments, not for riding on their hubby's coat tails, right, Harry, you sexist simpleton?

5 posted on 08/11/2005 3:17:38 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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To: beyond the sea

I hope Pirro tears the Hildabeast a new one.


6 posted on 08/11/2005 3:18:06 AM PDT by garyhope (Islamofascism wants the death of Western civilization. Simple as that.)
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To: hershey

Pirro is smooth and firm at the same time!!!


7 posted on 08/11/2005 3:22:09 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: beyond the sea

Saying "Hey! I checked out her website today, and guess what?....blah-blah-blah" has to be the dumbest thing in Harry Smith's article. It makes him sound like an uninformed journalism flunkie.


8 posted on 08/11/2005 3:24:53 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
you'll never see any media figure like Harry Smith dredge up any skeletons from Hillary's closet

Yeh, especially that old skeleton of the origins of Hill's unabated, seething anger.

****

Her fuming anger goes way back to her early childhood when her father gave her a toaster and a radio as bath toys.

;-)

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"I think for me, the sickest and scariest kind of rage is the Hillary Clinton kind of rage. You know, the perpetual permafrost smile she wears that's hiding a well of fury deeper than Barry White's voice during a bout of pneumonia." -- Dennis Miller

9 posted on 08/11/2005 3:26:21 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

An uninformed DNC flunkie, you mean.


10 posted on 08/11/2005 3:27:19 AM PDT by Pete98 (After his defeat by the Son of God, Satan changed his name to Allah and started over.)
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To: Darkwolf377
If you were an honest writer, Harry, you would have told us if Hillary mentions her husband being impeached and losing his law license on HER web site.

LOL. And what about the rapes and numerous assaults of women?

11 posted on 08/11/2005 3:27:22 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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. . . women are supposed to be respected for and rated on their OWN accomplishments, not for riding on their hubby's coat tails, right, Harry, you sexist simpleton?

Depends upon how much has changed since 1984.

Remember Geraldine Ferraro?  Allegations of her husband's tax fraud, mafia ties, including renting space to a mafia-run child porn ring, didn't do much to boost her Vice-Presidential aspirations, nor did it help her attempt at reelection.  And, it probably undermined her failed attempts to win the Democratic nomination for Senator.

Might be interesting to watch how the New York media plays it up, and how the New York electorate reacts to it.

12 posted on 08/11/2005 3:28:13 AM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: hershey
Hill's definitely got problems.

"What can you say about Hillary Clinton that hasn't already been muttered under somebody else's breath?" -- Dennis Miller

13 posted on 08/11/2005 3:30:30 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: Racehorse
Might be interesting to watch how the New York media plays it up, and how the New York electorate reacts to it.

It will be interesting............ if the vote count is honest.

14 posted on 08/11/2005 3:31:45 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: beyond the sea

I've heard of a cat fight.

Is this going to turn out to be a BWitch fight?

Could get interesting.

Just so Shrillery Anotinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Stalin . . . de Sade

LOSES.


15 posted on 08/11/2005 3:32:34 AM PDT by Quix (GOD'S LOVE IS INCREDIBLE . . . BUT MUST BE RECEIVED TO . . .)
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To: Racehorse
The MSM are the ones who are always calling Hillary the smartest whatever in wherever, so it will be interesting to watch them try to tar Pirro while they say "Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, was practically co-President--AND a victim, too!"

I just think people are bored with Hillary's song. She's always been given votes and credit not for what she's done or who she is, but for being a victim and a symbol (i.e. first First Lady to win for the Senate). Not nearly as many people really like her or think she's all that great as some would have you think.

16 posted on 08/11/2005 3:35:38 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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To: beyond the sea

Hey Jeanine...bet Hillary loves Able Danger and is dying to discuss.


17 posted on 08/11/2005 3:37:30 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Darkwolf377
I think you're right. More than right.

I keep waiting for the Teflon to wear through to the metal. Nothing seems to touch her, never mind stick.

How long can that last?

I don't know the truth about Pirro's conservative bent, or the lack of it, but she is (or was) a prosecutor, so she'll certainly know how to pile "it" on.
18 posted on 08/11/2005 3:43:52 AM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Racehorse
I think she's conservative only on fiscal issues. But she ain't Hillary.

I just have this sense that the Dems are thinking "What have we gotten for all this Clinton loyalty lately?"

19 posted on 08/11/2005 3:47:45 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
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To: beyond the sea

Anyone who can blow this witch out of the political waters and gum up her Presidential plans has my support.


20 posted on 08/11/2005 4:01:19 AM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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