Posted on 12/22/2007 12:29:40 PM PST by DBCJR
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to shore up support among independent and female voters in New Hampshire Friday, attempting to maintain a strength in those blocs with her biography and testimonials from registered Republicans.
Clinton, in a tight race with Sen. Barack Obama, planned to spend the day telling New Hampshire voters how she reached across party lines and produced results — echoing television ads already on the air. The New York senator brought along her mother, Dorothy Rodham, daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and other well-known female supporters during a two-day swing in New Hampshire.
She also dispatched supporters to vouch for her record and soften the sometimes harsh public caricature that has frustrated her front-runner campaign.
"This is a person who can reach common ground and never compromise her principles," said Jeff Volk, a Republican from New York, telling the story of being stuck in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit there. He has given the maximum of $2,300 to Clinton's campaign and $5,000 to Clinton's political action committee in 2007.
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In a brief foray into politics, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday denounced comments by Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee that the Bush administration's foreign policy is arrogant and unilateral.
"The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous," she said at a State Department news conference. "One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy."
...Huckabee recently said the administration's foreign policy was characterized by a "bunker mentality."
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Speaking of blacks and women, look who got riled! Rice set Huckabee straight. Huckabee has bought right into Dem rhetoric: "go it alone" and "bunker mentality". I am forever amazed that our Repub candidates allow Dems to frame the issues of debate and shape the rhetoric. But Huckabee is AGREEING with the Dems!
If she’s the nominee, I may start a Women Against Hillary blog.
She has to shore up support from women? How embarrassing.
Hillary Courts Women’s Votes ...
who is the piaps going to plant next.....HUMA!!!
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