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.
MoveOn.org was CREATED for the specific purpose of diverting media attention and the voters’ skepticism from the very blatant and real bad behavior of the “Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001”. This organization is a dinosaur that has lived on far beyond its original reason to exist, because its function has been adapted to the effort to stage a return to the White House by Herself, the Cold and Joyless.
Therefore, if MoveOn.org has slandered a good, decent and honorable member of the US Army, then it stands to reason, that Herself is also part of that slander. Herself has not, and in fact, cannot, disavow of the support received from MoveOn.org both clandestinely and overtly.
Rudy is entirely in the right to whack Herself soundly for this past and current asssociation with MoveOn.org.
It's not the money, it's the symbolism, and I wish FRED had run this ad!! But God bless Rudy for doing so. He's obviously hit a big nerve.
OK the lib was referring to he not she.
Ha Ha Ha...Krauthammer just said Rudy’s ad poked the NYT, Hillary, and MoveOn all in the same ad. All three Republican erogenous zones.
LOL...
The Psycho Hag is just furious that the ad made clear her true malice and despising for our military, when she not only refused to refute the MoveOn slander tactics, but let her “competent and experienced” mask fall away during her attack on him in the Senate hearing, for all to see her hatred and contempt for our military.
The psycho b*tch could not be a greater danger to our military, and by extension, us and our, than if we elected Qusay Hussien as our next President.
Can someone please tell me what “expirience” Hillary Lecter gained as First “Lady”, that would be a qualifier for a
Presidential run?
I don’t think that frequently bursting into his staff meetings an screaming at her cuckholding mate, about God knows what, gives her ANY kind of experience for being the CinC.
He's still a gun grabber, so he'll not ever be getting my vote.
I'm with Rudy, her statement really doesn't make sense. '...the willing suspension of disbelief ' implies that Petraeus is telling the truth but her tone says the opposite.
The lack of linkage (i.e. a condemnation from Hillary) is exactly what he is referring to Mr. College Professor.
It’s a damn shame how many people living in this country are planning to “make history” by voting for Hillary and by doing so, electing the first foreign born President of the United States, George Soros.
I challenge the Rudy haters to dis Giuliani over this ad.
A brilliant ad slamming Clinton and move on.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L63Ff_mGzs
The best defense is a good offense.
It's not the money, it's the symbolism, and I wish FRED had run this ad!! But God bless Rudy for doing so. He's obviously hit a big nerve.
I didn’t understand one work in that Rush parody.
So true. There are too many that can’t see beyond themselves.
What about Freedom Watch? That’s a class act. Ari Fleischer is a spokesman. Looks like a classy, well oiled machine to me, and they are way ahead of Hitlery and her minions at Moveon.
FReeper comments BUMP!,...especially the most derogatory towards the beast.
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