Rookie's up-Hil run not futile, GOP big says (against Hillary)

[Renew Deal]

BY JOE MAHONEY and HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Moderate Republican Kathleen Troia (K.T.) McFarland's still-few backers promised yesterday that the political novice seeking to challenge Sen. Hillary Clinton isn't just being thrown to the wolves.

"She is not getting into this race as a sacrificial lamb," insisted influential Erie County GOP Chairman Bob Davis, McFarland's leading supporter. McFarland, a Pentagon spokeswoman under President Ronald Reagan who has been a Park Avenue mom for the past 20 years, said she has the support to get on the primary ballot in September.

"I seek to engage other candidates for this office in substantive debate on issues of importance to New York State and the nation," she told supporters.

That sets up a GOP primary race against ex-Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, a conservative who calls McFarland a pro-choice elitist liberal. "I don't know what this woman is thinking, I really don't," he said, saying she'll divide the party and ultimately help Clinton (D-N.Y.). In her first nationally televised interview yesterday, McFarland told Chris Matthews on "Hardball" that she would never have voted with other Republicans to impeach former President Bill Clinton in 1998 if she were in the Senate then. She also said that efforts to label Hillary Clinton as an "angry woman" were "just nonsense."
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http://www.nydailynews.com/03-07-2006/news/story/397398p-336835c.html

This is likely over before it started.

[Ignacio Upton]

1. She's acting like Lieberman

In the sense that she's undermining Rove's memes. She will run on a 9/11 Changed Everthing campaign, then Hillary will point to how she has gotten Federal grants for NYC after 9/11, and hammer her on port security. McFarland will be better than Pirro and Spencer, but not by much so. I'm expecting Hillary to win by at least 55%-45% but most likely even more.

[mdmc]

2. she will end up with a 125,000 per year H. Mills job

mark my words.