Posted on 03/13/2006 9:24:39 AM PST by presidio9
Kathleen Troia McFarland (R), who is seeking the Republican nomination to run against incumbent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y), in a recent interview said she supports abortion rights but also supports laws that require parental notification and a ban on so-called "partial-birth" abortion, the White Plains Journal-News reports. McFarland, who was a Department of Defense spokesperson during the Reagan administration, said she favors exceptions allowing abortion in cases that protect the health of the pregnant woman. "I think I am where the majority of the electorate is and the majority of the Republican Party as well," McFarland said (Blain, White Plains Journal-News, 3/8). McFarland is running for the Republican nomination against former Yonkers, N.Y., Mayor John Spencer, who opposes abortion rights (Humbert, AP/Long Island Newsday, 3/7). Rodham Clinton on her Web site says she supports abortion rights as defined by Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 Supreme Court case that effectively barred state abortion bans -- and believes that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare" (Rodham Clinton Web site, 3/8).
That tells me everything I need to know about her.
Ok lets take off the gloves and talk some hard truths about K.T. McFarland and her "entry" into the race for senate in New York State. This is phony attempt by George Pataki the rino governor of New York to derail John Spencer and see that Hillary Clinton gets no real opponent.
The reason why John Spencer is having a hard time nailing down the New York State GOP nomination is because George E. Pataki doesn't want him to get it.
Pataki has this stupid notion that HE, GEORGE E. PATAKI the failed rino governor of a state that is about to become East mexifornia, can be ( drum roll and please sit down ) President of the United States! Yes the head of New York's rino heard actually, really, no B.S. thinks he can win a series of GOP primaries and get the top spot, or at least enough to get some dope to name him VP.
To do this Pataki needs money. There is only so much GOP money in New York, and no more. Consequently, if Pataki can engineer a senate race in which the Republicans run a dead body like this fraud McFarland, no one will contribute to her and they will give their money to Pataki.
If he had his way and thought he could get away with it, Pataki would see to it that Hillary Clinton ran unopposed. Since he can't do that he is doing the only thing he can: hold back John Spencer. Pataki and the rest of the New York rino heard, are afraid of the name Clinton. Spencer is not afraid of Clinton.
Spencer will give her the fight of her life. The "experts" are completely overlooking this race. They have no understanding of John Spencer.
Yes, I am a strong supporter of John's, but the fact is that when you have a Clinton running now and maybe later on one side and a warrior that is not afraid of Clinton or her name on the other, how can this not be the most exciting race in the country?
John will have the money to fight this fight. He has the same fund raiser that generated 40 million dollars for Rick Lazio in just 5 1/2 months. That was six years ago when people only THOUGHT they knew how dangerous a Hillary Clinton presidency would be. She only got 55%. If you think that was big, you are not watching carefully enough.
The left thinks they now have the right candidate to run against in John Spencer. They think they can run two campaigns with opposite aims at the same time. I don't. I don't think it took more that a sharp college kid to get Hillary Clinton elected with a big 55% in a state like New York in 2000, with NO real press conferences. Howie Wolfson is no political genius. Neither is she.
John Spencer had two children with an aide he is now married to, before he was divorced from his first wife.
There is, however, more to the story. John was privately, but not legally, separared from his first wife for years before his eventual second wife came into his life.
Some people have been questioning this part of Spencer's resume.What I have just said is the answer. Neither he nor anyone else has ever made any claims to be a better or worse person because of how his two middle children came into this world. It has nothing to do with his ability to lead or vote as a true conservative in public matters.
Will John win? We'll see.
He will get at least the same 46% that John Fasso did. Fasso was the last unflinching Republican to run statewide. He got the old Reagan Democrats out. He got conservative Republicans out and he got members of the Conservative Party to come out and vote for him. He also got the Right to Life people out. Spencer appeals to all of those groups and now Hillary is ten times scarier.
How can this not be the top race this year?
Excellent post.
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