Posted on 09/14/2007 3:33:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS) NEW YORK -- Ever since Rudy Giuliani aborted his race for Senate against Hillary Clinton in 2000, the political world has been hungering for a re-match between the political titans.
On Friday, with both candidates running for president, we got a taste of what could be.
Suddenly, it's Rudy versus Hillary all over again.
Giuliani plunged head-first into a growing controversy over the activist group Moveon.org.
"Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of herself for that," Giuliani said.
The organization publicly mocked Gen. David Petraeus this week as "General Betray Us." On Friday, Giuliani tried to link Clinton to that comment by purchasing his own ad in the New York Times.
"These times call for statesmanship, not politicians spewing political venom," it reads.
But Clinton had nothing to do with the Moveon ad. Instead, Giuliani cites her comment this week during Petraeus' testimony.
Clinton said, "...this requires the willing suspension of disbelief."
Giuliani then swooped in: "I'm not sure what she was trying to say ... but she was saying that he wasn't telling the truth."
On Friday, Clinton's campaign shot back, saying:
"It's hardly surprising that Mayor Giuliani is running the first negative ad of the '08 campaign, given his inability to justify his unqualified support for President Bush's failed Iraq strategy."
Giuliani's move comes as Fred Thompson is eroding the ex-mayor's lead in the race. This could be Giuliani's way of seizing the momentum again.
"He'd love nothing more than for her or members of her campaign to respond in an agitated way to what is clearly at best a very dubious linkage between what Moveon does and what Hillary Clinton says," said David Birdsell, professor at Baruch College.
With the war debate intensifying, some anti-war protestors descended upon Clinton's Manhattan office Friday. But fewer than two-dozen protestors showed up.
As the poor turnout over this rally shows, it hasn't been easy to tarnish Clinton over the war issue. But a lot of people are still very eager to try.
Rudy and others need to keep the pressure on Hillary for failing to condemn the MoveOn comments. Do it loud and do it proud!
This is but a taste of things to come. The further along this race gets, expect to see GOP candidates coming out against Clinton with claws and fangs bared. That witch will not have a minute’s rest. She will be so busy trying to fend off spears that she will have little time to do anything with her own campaign. I love it.
he’s ever in Green Bay?.....It’ll be a cold day in.....no wait....it’ll be a HOT day......................
This ad is the best thing that’s happened to the GOP.
The majority of Americans can finally see the Democratic Crime Syndicate for what it really is, and realize that is controlled by left-wing loons.
Hillary Slams Giuliani Over Moveon.org CommentsNow that takes a level of audacity only a Clinton is capable of.
Green Bay? Is that where that Lambert Field is?
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BIRDSELL, DAVID S |
BARUCH COLLEGE |
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Kerry, John |
I’m not a big Rudy-for-President guy....but...if he can step onto the field and pound her into the ground, I will cheer for him like the head cheer-leader at the Homecoming game.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
For the love of GOD, could headline writers get a thesaurus? I am so sick of “slams” I think I am going to puke. Enough already! It called a vocabulary, look into it!
Ditto & ditto. If she thinks she can out chop a New Yawkah, she’s got another thing commin.
Have you noticed how Hillary has modified her method of giving speaches? She’s really toned them down. She doesn’t start soft and slow and get louder and louder any more. She sounded more like Hitler if you pay attention to his speaches. It’s kind of funny because you know that this is not how she really is. She’s a yeller and screamer and if she got in the White House, they would have to insulate all the walls. The military wouldn’t be allowed to wear their uniforms around her either. She wouldn’t want the Secret Service around her either....which would mean she would make a good target.
Yeah she had nothing to do with the ad (just setting up MoveOn.Org itself...)
Political Titans? Hillary? IIRC, during her 2000 campaign, she admitted to being "frightened" when Rep Rick Lazio approached her lecturn.
What kind of Titan is afraid of a skinny guy with a piece of paper?
That's a really weak response. If that's the best Hillary's goons can do, I'm not impressed. It's like her to dodge the question, however; she's had lots of practice at that.
rudy is on the only one who has the nerve to take on the hildebeast.
the republican leadership seems to be nowhere. the other candidates
just don’t get it. she has to be hit again and again. i hate to say it,
but i think only rudy, despite his myriad of faults, has the guts to do it.
WIFE O’BUCKHEAD
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