Hunting Hillary Clinton---Hating Hillary: A Cottage Industry

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18556

Hunting Hillary Clinton

Bill Berkowitz - WorkingForChange

02.15.05 - "Stop Her Now," is the name of the new Web site soon to be launched by Arthur Finkelstein, the chief political guru of New York Governor George Pataki, and one of the country's most successful yet least known political consultants/spin doctors. The "Her" at StopHerNow.com is New York Senator Hillary Clinton. According to the New York Post, Finkelstein, the longtime master of the political attack ad, hopes the site will raise as much as $10 million from Hillary-haters across the nation and provide a gathering point for conservative activists working to defeat her in next year's Senatorial election. Hillary's defeat would likely derail any presidential aspirations she might have.

The New York Post's Fredric Dicker has called Finkelstein "a secretive and sometimes controversial national GOP consultant who played a key role in Pataki's defeat of Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994." The Associated Press' political writer Marc Humbert characterized Finkelstein as being "media-shy." Nearly ten years ago, CNN's Jonathan Karl wrote of Finkelstein: "He is the stuff of Hollywood: A man who can topple even the most powerful foes, yet so secretive that few have ever seen him." Former New York Senator Alphonse D'Amato maintained that Finkelstein "is probably one of the brightest, cutting-edge political scientists I've ever met."

Hating Hillary: A Cottage Industry

The end of Bill Clinton's presidency coincided with the birth of the political career of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Once she decided to run for the Senate seat from New York, Hillary-bashing replaced Bill-bashing as the right's most popular and financially rewarding activity.

In the fall of 2000, when Morton Blackwell established a group called the Emergency Committee to Stop Hillary Rodham Clinton, he sent an e-mail that read in part: "As you know, the establishment media have protected Bill and Hillary Clinton from the worst of their crimes, corruption and cover-ups." To underscore his sense of urgency, Blackwell, who in 1979 founded The Leadership Institute, recruited such high-powered right wing luminaries as Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan's Attorney General during the Iran/Contra scandal, Lynn Nofsinger, longtime Republican Party activist, Oklahoma Republican Congressman Ernest Istook and Alan Keyes, the recently failed Senatorial candidate from Illinois......

[yinkaafrica]

1. She has absolutely no chance of winning

Please bet me now. We need to win over
brainless rednecks, she has ZERO chance.
We all know it.

[Zenlitened]

2. Trying to win over brainless red voters is a sure-fire losing strategy

We need to focus on the millions and millions of non-voters in this country, and Hillary is entirely capable of connecting with them.

[SharonAnn]

3. These fundraisers send out mailers with this a 'Rake In the Money'

My uncle sends me this stuf "so that I can understand what we're up against" and can contribute myself. Hah!

It's amazing what these various "fund-raiser" say and what they claim they're going to do with the money. I think bunches of them are like those phony charities that prey on old people. They're phony politicians. i encourage ihim to send in all the money he wants to.