Posted on 11/01/2007 4:44:23 AM PDT by vietvet67
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.
Mark Penn, Clinton’s senior strategist and pollster, and Jonathan Mantz, the campaign’s finance director, told the supporters on the call, which The Hill listened to in its entirety, that they expect attacks from Clinton’s rivals to continue, and she will need the financial resources to deflect their attacks.
Clinton came under withering assault in the Philadelphia debate, and some supporters on the call agreed with analysts that she stumbled.
“I wouldn’t say she lost her cool,” one caller said. “But I would say she lost her footing.”
The caller addded that Clinton’s response to questions about records from her time in the White House that have been sealed by the National Archives “made me roll my eyes.”
The criticisms followed Penn’s assertion that Clinton was “unflappable.” He also said criticisms from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) would backfire and that he was already “detecting some backlash,” particularly among female voters.
Those female voters are saying, “Sen. Clinton needs our support now more than ever if we’re going to see this six-on-one to try to bring her down,” Penn told those on the campaign call.
He, Mantz and several supporters hinted repeatedly on the call that Clinton was unfairly targeted by Tim Russert, debate moderator and host of NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Russert made it appear that President Clinton had done something new or unusual,” Penn said, before adding that it “is, in fact, an extremely confusing situation … I think there will be further clarification.”
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“a-a-a-WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
Instead of an issue based response, Nurse Rachet goes on the attack using the victim ploy this time.
She can’t handle a somewhat tough question by her FRIEND, TIM RUSSERT?? GOOD GRIEF!!! She’s not READY for PRIMETIME!
She’s done for. Her support on giving driver licenses to illegals will haunt her all the way through the campaign. With 71% of liberal New Yorkers against it, what does that make the rest of the country? Too bad, so sad. (NOT!)
Bye-bye Hill.
Calling all Chinese Dishwashers! Calling all Chinese Waiters!! Calling ALL Chinese Street Hawkers!!!
She’s not finished by ANY means.....her base LOVES giving illegals driver’s licenses.....they LOVE illegals.
Hillary! does poorly... she needs more money.
Hillary! does fair-to-middling'... she needs more money.
Hillary! takes the day off... she needs more money...
Is anybody else seeing a pattern here?
As a female voter, I find that very insulting.
I watched a bit of the debate (God knows why?) but I noticed that in spite of Hillary’s poor showing, none of the others took advantage. Are the other candidates just as pathetic or are they just there to audition for the VP slot? Seems the other candidates missed a golden opportunity for themselves.
I won’t feel safe until her political corpse is cremated and the ashes are scattered. Her and Bill have come back from the dead more often than Dracula...
You vastly underestimate the Clinton machine.
Hillary is the nominee.
The only issue now is who she selects for a running mate. It will be a person who is a trusted Clinton supporter, who can help in the South and with the swing states and who communicates with Hispanics. Any idea who that might be? Hint: he's the only person who came to Hillary's defense during the debate.
From the article;
“Russert made it appear that President Clinton had done something new or unusual,” Penn said, before adding that it “is, in fact, an extremely confusing situation … I think there will be further clarification.”
Was this a Freudian slip by Penn or was Russert talking about BJ’s motor-voter disaster?
If she can’t handle criticism in a debate without playing the Victimized Woman Card, she’s unqualified to be President.
if that ever happened, then like in movies/cartoons, the individual ash molecules would start to move in unison, start sliming together, and then resurrecting into a monstrous ugly cackling beast
No need to call all those guys, just dial 1-800-ENFORCER.
“further clarification” means that Timmy the Toad will be taken to the WOODSHED and made to come out and GUSH about how great Hillary is and to APOLIGIZE somehow.
but she IS qualified to be a DICTATOR which is what she REALLY wants to be.
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