How to Beat Hillary (Next) November

Newsweek ^ | Nov 26, 2007 Issue | Karl Rove

[Baladas]

I've seen up close the two Clintons America knows. He's a big smile, hand locked on your arm and lots of charms. "Hey, come down and speak at my library. I'd like to talk some politics with you."

And her? She tends to be, well, hard and brittle. I inherited her West Wing office. Shortly after the 2001 Inauguration, I made a little talk saying I appreciated having the office because it had the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing, which gave me a chance to improve my rumpled appearance. The senator from New York confronted me shortly after and pointedly said she hadn't put the mirror there. I hadn't said she did, just that the mirror was there. So a few weeks later, in another talk, I repeated the story about the mirror. And shortly thereafter, the junior senator saw me and, again, without a hint of humor or light in her voice, icily said she'd heard I'd repeated the story of the mirror and she … did … not … put … that mirror in the office.

[Baladas]

Well, she sounds like a barrel of fun now, doesn't she?

This is the controversial new Rovian column - any campaign advice from him should be considered.

[Jim Robinson]

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

[originalbuckeye]

I’d love to have a ten spot for every person that she’s threatened or intimidated. I’d be on easy street. Please tell me that the American people will see through her facade before November 2008.

[an amused spectator]

She’s making a list, she’s checking it twice, gonna find out who’s going to the gulag tonight - Hillary the Nazi Ice Queen is coming to town...

[2ndDivisionVet]

I wouldn’t have a mirror in my office either, if I was a nasty old dried up Harridan.

[K-oneTexas]

If Hillary is beat ... Algore’s constant cries and court cases over the ‘stolen election’ will be a but a small ripple compared to the tidal wave this she beast will unleash.

[Old Sarge]

Of course She Who Must Not Be Named didn’t have a mirror - She cast no reflection, so why would She have one?

[ari-freedom]

[Jim Robinson]

"Say in authentic terms what you believe. The GOP nominee must highlight his core convictions to help people understand who he is and to set up a natural contrast with Clinton, both on style and substance."

First, you have to actually have core convictions that naturally contrast with Hillary. Being pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-gun, etc, would go far.

[G8 Diplomat]

[tenthirteen]

Hillary probably said she did not put THAT mirror in the office, since she cracked every other one that was EVER there before.

No mirror known to man could contain that image and still exist.

[South40]

How to beat Hillary

[Sudetenland]

Uhhh...with a baseball bat?

[FrdmLvr]

...icily said she'd heard I'd repeated the story of the mirror and she … did … not … put … that mirror in the office.

CAW CAW CAW!!!

[Old Sarge]

This is the controversial new Rovian column - any campaign advice from him should be considered.

I dunno... the same guy who almost lost in 2000; came up with "compassionate conservatism"; almost lost in 2004; lost the Congress in 2006; and operates on that old maxim, "Of course they'll vote Republican, where ELSE are they going to go?"

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

She probably did not put the mirror in her office, she just ordered some flunky to do it.
It might even have been her secret service protection as she treated them like her flunkies.

[Xeroes80]

Nice column, but it’s amazing that Rove fails to recognize the most important issue for winning in ‘08, and the one that Her Thighness has no clue: SECURING OUR BORDERS AND ENFORCING OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS!!!!

[ken21]

In reality, she’s eminently beatable. Her contentious history evokes unpleasant memories. She lacks her husband’s political gifts and rejects much of the centrism he championed. The health-care fiasco showed her style and ideology. All of which helps explain why, for a front runner in an open race for the presidency, she has the highest negatives in history.

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hopeful words from rove.

[Our man in washington]

I’ve got an issue to beat Hillary Clinton with.

Hillary Clinton is strongly concerned about global warming but opposes putting nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Therefore, one of the following must be true:

1. She doesn’t really believe global warming is a threat and she’s just using it for a campaign issue.

2. She does think global warming is a threat, but thinks Nevada’s three electoral votes are more important that this serious threat to the planet.

3. She thinks we can somehow cut down on CO2 emissions by a significant amount without using nuclear power. That proposition is absurd.

4. She thinks the nuclear waste should go someplace else, even though Yucca Mountain was chosen after a multiyear study and it would probably take decades to find another place.

I wish Hillary would explain which of these four is correct. My guess is option #2. Not one of these four options would reflect well on her. I wish the Republicans would press the point.

[Balata]

Hillary is about the past. She is not about the future. The Republican nominee needs to drive this point home to the masses. She has lead nothing. The people of the USA are looking for a leader.