Posted on 06/29/2005 12:18:56 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Ex-President Bill Clinton is asking his wife's supporters to fill her campaign war chest by midnight tomorrow, maintaining it would send political observers a powerful message more than a year from the Senate election.
Clinton's E-mail appeal to members of the Friends of Hillary claimed his wife is atop the GOP's hit list, but she can still wow supporters and defy critics by reporting a huge haul of campaign contributions by the June 30 filing deadline.
"The mid-year Federal Election Commission report is the yardstick that the political operatives and pundits use to judge what kind of shape candidates are in for the 2006 elections," Clinton wrote.
So far, an A-list GOP opponent hasn't emerged, but the ex-President noted his wife "has already been singled out as the Republicans' No. 1 target for defeat next year.... When 2006 is over, they want Hillary out of the Senate."
Clinton added, "Chelsea and I are so proud of Hillary and what she is doing."
It's not the only time Team Clinton has done a last-minute fund-raising E-mail, but it's the first time it has come from the ex-President, the campaign said.
Hillary Clinton told the Daily News it wasn't too early to roll out a big gun like her husband. "I think there's going to be a lot of money spent against me by many, many sources," she said yesterday at a Capitol Hill event.
A longtime Clinton insider acknowledged that hefty contributions could scare a GOP name player with a base of support - like Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro - from jumping in the race.
The campaign refused to say whether this quarter's donations would top the $3.9 million raised the first three months of the year.
Ugh!
If Hillary loses re-election in 2006, her bid for the presidency is over before it begins.
Hillary Clinton backed the campaign of Brad Carson here in Oklahoma and sent her people to run his campaign -- it was nasty, sleezy and they flat out lied on a poll that came out before the election -- this not only had phoney poll numbers the Tulsa World ran with but it was a bogus poll put together by the Clintonites to make it look like Carson was winning. Carson lost big but outspent Dr. Tom Coburn by millions.
Clinton targeted Oklahoma to pick up Don Nickles seat and thanks to her minions President Bush won every county in Oklahoma because it didn't take long before people realized Carson had Clinton people on his staff and he used to work for the Clinton White House. Carson pretended to be a conservative which was bogus as well -- all part of the Clinton mantra.
Her victim status doesn't fly so well anymore as she has used it so much turning herself into a multi-millionaire that a lot of people don't see her as a victim but an opportunist.
IMHO, she and her husband may well be the Anti-Christ.
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