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To: backhoe; Howlin; Doctor Raoul; Lazamataz; Nick Danger; Sabertooth
You have to be careful with opposition research. For one thing, Hillary knows that she's tainted and has engaged in several proactive strategies based on that fact.

To wit: one of the things that Hillary has done in the past is to seed her opposition with wildly unfavorable stories against her...stories that turn out to be nonsense just in time to make her look like a victim while making her opposition look like liars. The "vast right wing conspiracy" never existed, for instance. She never spat on a White House staffer. Bill Clinton never sacrificed babies in Haitian voodoo rituals, either.

So full frontal attacks on her are problematic.

Nonetheless, she does have legitimate weaknesses.

Number one amongst her weaknesses would be Issues. Policy wise, Americans deserve better than to elect a pro-abortion woman. Likewise, we want Medicare reform, not fully nationalized Hillarycare. Nor do we want her anti-gun nonsense much less her enviro-radicalism. We don't need our next American President to be kissing Yasser Arafat's wives, either.

Next we have policy mistakes. Why did she want us to go into Bosnia and Kosovo without the UN, and why are we still there? Why did she want a "quick end" to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco? Why did she want to duplicate Canada and Europe's failed health care systems where tens of thousands of elderly perish at the first sign of a Summer heatwave? Why was she against building new logging roads to serve as firebreaks in our national forests?

And then we have legitimate, proven, non tin-foil scandals:

Who hired Craig Livingstone? Who fired the White House Travel Office staff, and why? How did her federally subpoenaed Rose Law Firm billing records turn up only *after* various time limits had expired...in her White House living room? What's the real story behind her $100,000 cattle futures trade, and why has she never again tried to make such trades?

There's also at least one irrefutable federal crime. She violated the federal Open Meetings Act with her closed door meeting with Ira Magaziner.

And that's enough. We don't need anything else on her. The goal isn't to throw so much mud at her that she starts to look dirty, after all. The goal is to promote freedom by besting our adversaries, and we don't want to start looking for every little scam or rumor that comes our way about her because IF we do, she'll burn us by hooking us up with a fake scandal that will wind up making her look like a victim while simultaneously discrediting *ALL* of us who are against her.

You can look at the posts on FRee Republic and already see some of the tin-foil nonsense about Hillary coming out of the woodwork like termites and cockroaches in a bad B horror movie.

We're smarter than that, people.

35 posted on 12/07/2003 8:59:16 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
We've got most of her book signing appearances logged. 40 if you count the upcoming Florida one. That doesn't count the TV appearances, private parties and press interviews she's done.

Add it up and it's a lot more time than even writers spend on book promotion.

37 posted on 12/07/2003 10:03:23 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (How can they call it a "Peace March" when they unconditionally support those who kill our soldiers?)
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To: Southack
Howdy.

Do you think the specific issues regarding Hillary will stick in the post 9/11/01 world? I think they do only if one thing happens - Bill gets involved in any campaign. I'm sure HRC and her staff are thinking about "what they are going to do about Bill". There appears to be a significant gap between what I believe is Bill trying to rescue his legacy as President and HRC, who is trying to get elected and needs to distance herself from many facets of her husband's presidency.

Of course, if HRC brings up criticism about not getting OBL, I do believe it is legitimate to point to what has been done to get him post 09/11, and also what was NOT done to apprehend OBL pre 09/11.

HRC is probably savvy enough to moderate her positions during any presidential campaign. Luckily, she has spoken out on many issues, so she does have a paper trail, so to speak.

Also, HRC is inexperienced in foreign affairs and national security and in the post 09/1/01 world, that is, I believe, a major liability. Accentuate that inexperience.
48 posted on 12/08/2003 6:11:45 AM PST by Fury
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To: Southack
Very good points in your #35.
49 posted on 12/08/2003 6:31:08 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Southack
Your pointed comments are appreciated, and I agree. Thanks.
51 posted on 12/08/2003 10:06:34 AM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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