Falling Out of Favor? (Analysis of Hillary's Dismal Performance as NY Senator)

Buffalo News ^ | May 4, 2003 | Douglas Turner

[Randjuke]

But Clinton blames Bush's tax cut and deficit policies for New York's inability to emerge from recession.

I continues to amaze me how Democrats keep blaming tax policies which had not yet taken effect for the poor economy, and how the press continues not to call them on it.

[ImpotentRage]

YES! I am so fearful that the Republicans will not take her seriously and treat her like a "lady" if she does run in 2004. I truly think the Repulican Party needs another Lee Atwater. Hillary is a force to be reckoned with and I hope none of us ever loses sight of that fact.

[VOA]

Falling Out of Favor? (Analysis of Hillary's Dismal Performance as NY Senator)

Any Democrats I know who are disappointed in Hillary are perturbed that she's been
too far to the right.

Hopefully she'll return to her leftist/ACLU home and excite that base...
and repel lots of Dubya Democrats.

[Amerigomag]

No subtlety in upstate New York. Bring us the pork or get the hell out.

Buffalo has no nobel aims or liberal values, just bring us the pork Senator.

[dts32041]

Sounds like the Rino's in Maine, but they are a little more succesful, in getting the Pork.

Of course, there are no jobs to speak of in Maine , unless you wnat to sell T-shirts to flatlanders.

[George W. Bush]

Clinton also failed to deliver on two recent high-profile Buffalo-area issues: ...

Hillary wants to help you. Very very much.

[longtermmemmory]

I wonder why NY state still uses those old punch lever machines. It would not take much to rig the wheels to click but not register.

You are absolutely right. The reason algore lost in florida was that the voter turnout exceeded their fraud levels. They will not make the same mistake twice. Next time they will be prepared. The clintons will factor in a larger conservative turnout and fraud accordingly.

[green team 1999]

democrats don`t fly,bump.

[Jorge]

That's what NY gets for electing this woman.

[fella]

WHAT! Do you mean to say that the demonrats plan to tax us into prosperiety is not working?

[keri]

Ping:-)

[nicmarlo]

The ONLY place Hitlery will soundly take is NYC, where she was won overwhelmingly the first go 'round. Upstate, overall, did not vote for her. Think of the Bush/Gore election map and you can fit it over NY....much of NY voted for Hitlery, and it was much of Albany/NYC area which did (and probably the City of Evil, Ithaca---which is another Berzerkley). Why should Hitlery care what she does for upstate? If she loses NYC, she's out.

[nicmarlo]

ooooooooops! "much of NY voted for Hitlery" = much of NY did not vote for Hitlery

[Carry_Okie]

Hopefully the good people of New York will dump her before 2008. Were I a Republican Party apparatchik, finding and developing the right candidate would be my highest priority, now.

[mountaineer]

The Shrew never had an interest in Buffalo or the state of New York. ... The Shrew has always sounded phoney.

As I recall, one of the issues she was faced with early in her senatorial reign had to do with dairy farmers. One can only imagine how little she actually cared about farmers or anyone else outside of NYC.

[ricpic]

"....I'm hoping her initially engaging schtick won't wear very well over time."

Forgive me, but Hillary has schtick? She's the least schtickful, or most schtickless (take your pick) shiksa around.

[RnMomof7]

Clinton also failed to deliver on two recent high-profile Buffalo-area issues: ...
Hillary wants to help you. Very very much.

She will win re-election You heard it here first (unless Rudy runs..The liberal dem in republican clothing would win the NYC vote)

[spokeshave]

Does this all mean that that in the wider scheme of things that us ordinary citizens can now make EYE CONTACT with the beast....?

[Dahoser]

"I'm two years into my term, and I'm taking stock of the situation," she said.

The only thing she's taking stock of is the next donor to shake down.

Clinton also said she is pursuing, along with legislative remedies, a number of specific projects in Erie County, Corning, Binghamton and elsewhere in the Southern Tier to generate new private-sector jobs.

As if she would have any clue how to create private sector jobs.

After she defeated a little-known Republican opponent, Long Island Rep. Rick A. Lazio, by a wide margin, largely because of her upstate emphasis, Clinton quickly turned her attention to larger matters.

Under an $8 million deal with Simon & Schuster, she had a June deadline to meet for publication of her memoirs. She also became a major national fund-raiser for the Democrats, creating two special treasuries for that purpose.

Nothing like putting her constituents first.

Clinton emerged as the leading voice in Congress for ensuring that Bush came through on his promises to send $20 billion in special aid for the reconstruction of ground zero and areas around it.

Her big contribution---being the shrew who holds him to a promise. No doubt a habit left over from her dealings with the former President who couldn't keep his promises.

Since then, Clinton made federal help for New York City's firefighters and police, and homeland security, her special causes.

Ah yes, the so-called first responders, the RATS' favorite new constituency. Oh, they don't want the police to do their jobs, they just want to send pork their way and garner the credit. And sadly, despite being booed by NYC's Finest and Bravest at the Garden, they already stand behind her at photo ops, and they'll probably support her in the next election(s).

Her interest in New York City has not gone unrewarded. An April 7 Zogby poll said voters there rated her performance 62 percent positive and 35 percent unfavorable.

Oops! She got 76% of that vote in the election against Lazio.

The upstaters who thought she was the savior are finding out what they should have known in the first place. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we all have to suffer for their stupidity. What's worse is that they're going to return Chuckie Cheese Schumer to the Senate next year, and by 2006, they'll be ready to re-elect Her Heinous after another listening tour convinces them to try kicking the football again.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't have the figures for the Senate race in 2000, but in the Presidential race Gore carried Erie Co. (Buffalo) by 60%, Tompkins Co. (Ithaca) by slightly over 60%, and Albany Co. (Albany) by almost 2-1. He carried the Bronx by about 7-1, which may have been his highest ratio anywhere (even higher than in San Francisco). But you don't have to get very far from NYC to find counties Bush carried--Putnam and Dutchess, for examples.

What happens in early 2006, assuming Bush is re-elected? Does Hillary run for re-election so that she will have a power base until 2012 no matter what? Or does she put all her marbles on the 2008 Presidential race, and avoid a possibly lackluster re-election in New York state in November 2006?