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.
I hope so. Already Rudy’s campaign has reported a surge (no pun intended) in donations, which I would have expected. He also did a video ad vs. Hillary, VERY effective. It’s time for the others to get off the dime and realize that our enemy is the Democrats, not Rudy, not Fred, not Mitt. Whoever correctly identifies the ENEMY will win the the primary over the other guys.
Fred's done an excellent job of this in his blogs, but few people read that stuff. His Castro stuff---while right on, philosophically---is a complete detour from what he should be talking about 24/7, which is HILLARY, HILLARY, HILLARY.
Good. Unfortunately, I think McCain has dug himself so deep a hole that no amount of bashing Hillary will help him, but it CERTAINLY will help us, so GO JOHNNY!
I have an entire bulletin board in one of my showrooms that is dedicated to informing America about her evilness!
I have maintained it for years!
LLS
"How do you keep all her vile deeds on just one bulletin board?"
“Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged.”
~ President Abraham Lincoln
SeeBS is on the job today protecting the witch of Arkansas
It’s a real burden... I rotate articles and pictures! ;-)
Sharpton is the Black version of David DuKKKe and Mike Nifong put together.
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