Posted on 12/13/2005 1:18:45 PM PST by neverdem
Republican prosecutor Jeanine Pirro's once-promising campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is lingering somewhere between the critical list and terminal.
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She supports abortion rights and favors an assault-gun ban and preserving Social Security. None of that pleased upstate...
Reached in his liquor store in Brooklyn, Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long said he likes Pirro, but not as a Senate candidate. "The press was looking at a catfight between two powerful women, okay?" Long said. "But I'm not looking for cats, I'm looking to elect conservative people to statewide office. I told her she's not a natural fit."
GOP Group Spars With Reform Jews on Iraq
The Republican Jewish Coalition announced plans yesterday to buy full-page ads in major newspapers to counter what it called a "misleading and wrong" statement from the Union of Reform Judaism critical of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. The ad carries the signatures of 180 leaders and prominent figures in the Jewish community.
"The reform movement does not speak for all Jews, or for all Reform Jews," declared the coalition's executive director, Matt Brooks. "Many American Jews support this president and recognize that Iraq is the central battle in the war on terror."
Among those signing the newspaper ad are two former chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, James Tisch and Kenneth Bialkin.
The coalition is unhappy with a statement, approved nearly unanimously last month by about 2,000 members at a convention in Houston, that said in part that "American Jews, and all Americans, are profoundly critical of this war and they want this Administration to tell us how and when it will bring our troops home."
The union's president, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, said: "The sentiment was clear and overwhelming."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hillary lite vs Hillary queen of darkness.
Maybe now we can get a true conservative in the race who can take on Hillary for her sleazy corruption and run-to-the-left, run-to-the-right crap she's been pulling. Best case scenario we get a hand-wringing liberal dem in there to trash her from the left on the war.
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