Clinton: Right-wing conspiracy is back

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The "vast, right-wing conspiracy" is back, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan plotting. Once derided for her use of the phrase, Clinton is now trying to turn the imagery to her advantage.

Speaking Tuesday to Democratic municipal officials, the New York senator used the term to hammer Republicans on election irregularities. She also used the phrase similarly during a campaign appearance over the weekend in New Hampshire.

Clinton was first lady when she famously charged allegations of an affair between her then-president husband Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky were the result of a conservative conspiracy. As evidence of the affair eventually came to light, the comment was ridiculed. But many Democrats have since insisted that Clinton was correct, pointing to the well-documented efforts by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife to fund a network of anti-Clinton investigations.

On Tuesday, she asserted the conspiracy is alive and well, and cited as proof the Election Day 2002 case of phone jamming in New Hampshire, a case in which two Republican operatives pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and a third was convicted.

"To the New Hampshire Democratic party's credit, they sued and the trail led all the way to the
Republican National Committee," Clinton said. "So if anybody tells you there is no vast right-wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court," she said.

Former RNC operative James Tobin was convicted of telephone harassment and appealed his conviction. The investigation arose after Democratic organizers' phones were overwhelmed by annoying hang-up calls hindering their get-out-the-vote efforts.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. It never ended....Or hasn't Hillary been watching

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[bryant69]

5. I'm sure she's seen it

You have to wonder how much of this is her spin and how much is media spin. Did she really say that they are back? Or did lazy media scribes say "Hmmm. She hasn't mentioned the right wing conspiracy in a while, she must think it is back."

Bryant
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[blm]

6. And how did Terry McAuliffe work to SECURE the 2004 election process from all the RW

tactics used in 2000 and 2002?

Oops....he didn't lift a finger.

Why not, Hillary? The RW conspiracy and RW media only gets a counter from Clinton loyalists when Clintons are running for office? Is that what we developed the Dem party for all those years? Just to serve and defend Clintons?

[William769]

12. Oy vey.

Hatred can be a self destructive thing.

[blm]

13. Looking the other way while Poppy Bush continued his fascist agenda is destructive

and WORTH hating that it was allowed.

[ck4829]

2. It's going to be funny seeing RW'ers touch THAT comment

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Back? It's always been here, never left.

*On edit* Oh, NOW I get it. Hilary is trying to appeal to progressives, left-wing democrats, and disaffected voters who have a chip on their shoulders. She wants our money and our votes.

[NDP]

4. No, it never went away. "The Clintons" are back.

[depakid]

8. And they enabled it!

Despite all that was done to them....

[AzDar]

17. Word. n/t

[mmonk]

7. Never left. It can't be back when it was still here.

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. The accurate term is RW Thugs

They never went away, although they had been laying a little low after getting Bushetal in the WH. Instead, they've been going after the local politics in the firm belief that they have cover from those above them.

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[blm]

14. The Clintons didn't NOTICE the last 6 years Bush was attacking the Dem party.

So TeamClinton stayed silent and never countered the attacks against other Democrats and the party, itself, the last 6 years.

They certainly spent alot of time countering the Dems attacks against Bush and his Iraq policy, though, didn't they?

[katsy]

11. Just call it what it is Senator.

It's corporate rule using rw nutjobs to divide the country.

The nutjobs get little.

[ccpup]

15. I need to call my Dad and apologize.

I always insisted that Right Winger Republicans found it much easier to hate and attack. The Hillary Bashers on DU have thus proven me wrong. It drives me up the friggin' wall when my Dad is right! Grrrrrr ...

[paulk]

19. you got that right

it's an eye opener

[blm]

26. So, you agree with Hillary that RW conspiracy is back now just to attack her?

Or did the RW conspiracy grow STRONGER in the last 8 years and has been used against EVERY Democrat who opposed BushInc?

And let's review how the Clinton team acted to counter the RW conspiracy that has been used by TeamBush to attack Democrats over the last 8 years.

Oh yeah - they didn't pop up until last September.

[paulk]

29. oh, is that what she said?

Or is it that you are so involved in your endless trashings of the Clinton's that you're willing to help the VRWC along by spinning everthing she says or does in the most negative light possible?


"On Tuesday, she asserted the conspiracy is alive and well, and cited as proof the Election Day 2002 case of phone jamming in New Hampshire, a case in which two Republican operatives pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and a third was convicted.

"To the New Hampshire Democratic party's credit, they sued and the trail led all the way to the
Republican National Committee," Clinton said. "So if anybody tells you there is no vast right-wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court," she said."


How does this translate into Hillary saying the VRWC is "back now just to attack her"?

[blm]

30. Point is that she and her team weren't fighting that same VRWC from 2001-2006

when it was being used against other Democrats and the Democratic party.

[paulk]

33. I understand the point you were trying to make

since you've been making it 30-40-50 times a day for the last 6 months on this board.

That still doesn't give you the right to make assertions that aren't supported by the article you're referencing.

[depakid]

21. Not so fast

The Telecommunications bill basically handed the rest of the media over to the far right. If that's not enabling I don't know what is.

Maybe appointing Michael Powell to the FCC to boot qualifies- or letting big PhARMA advertise on TV (further padding far right coffers). Or deregulating the financial industry.

These were policy choices that some of us remember well- and knew would turn out disastrously, both for the party and for the American people.

[Elwood P Dowd]

16. Read Chapter 10 of David Brock's book, "Blinded By The Right"

The story of Arkansas Project.

[guitar man]

18. Conspiracy??

Conspiracy??? :freak:

I always thought a conspiracy was where a group plotted in secret to do an evil or underhanded thing. I don't see a whole hell of a lot about what this nest of vipers is up to that is secret at all. Most of it is right out in the open.

"Vast Right Wing Public Campaign" is more like it.

[damntexdem]

20. Really? Where did it go?

I mean besides the White House?

[wicket]

22. kick

:kick:

[SoCalDem]

23. Where ya been Hil? They never LEFT.

Their media empire is stronger than ever (more consolidation in newspapers than ever) and they are like cornered animals now that they have lost congress.. they will only get meaner now.

[jail_them]

24. Yes & No

Yes, it's back. No, it's not what she thinks.



It's one word: Obama


He's their secret weapon Hillary-Smasher. I kept wondering why even repubs hav nice things to say about Obama and why is the media acting like he's a star?

Then, I see the media go out of it's way to trash Hillary and it all comes together. He's their strawman to take Hil's guaranteed (not anymore) black votes. She can't win without them.

They'd rather run against Obama - who just doesn't have the weight Hil has. So, they've shined up this obscure person most of us never heard of or gave a damn about (and, he doesn't give a damn about us, either) and turned him into the boy-wonder overnight.

They hyped him so hard that he started believing the lie, too. He can't win - racism is way too deep for that. Hillary could win.

[wicket]

25. "He can't win - racism is way too deep for that. "

I respectfully disagree - strongly.

[Geek_Girl]

27. I think there is a misunderstanding

The phrase "vast, right-wing conspiracy is back" is not Hillary's phrase it's the media's. Hillary is just now starting to reuse the phrase "right-wing conspiracy" My guess is she feels it politically safe and even savvy to strike a nerve in the American conscious and enforce the idea that there is a conspiracy by the right.

I like the fact that she is bringing it to light at a time when this administration is becoming unraveled. I just wish she was more pro-active about getting our troops out of Iraq.

[blm]

28. Many of us wish she had pressed to make the case against that RW machine for the

last 6 years.

We all know it just grew stronger - especially after 9-11 when it was the only message machine the corpmedia used.

If the Clinton machine was so powerful and represented the best of the Dem party warriors, then why didn't they work throughout that entire period to set the record straight against BushInc's lies or defend ALL Democrats and the party itself, who were under constant attack?

[Geek_Girl]

34. Because the Clinton's are Politicians at heart

and they don't stir up the waters unless it's safe or it benefits their political goals. Bu I'm still just happy to see Hillary or anyone for that matter speak out against "right-wing machine" regardless of the reasons.

[ComerPerro]

31. Does that mean RWers will start using my favorite of favorite talking points again?

"If there was a real Right Wing conspiracy, I'd be a part of it".

Uh, no you wouldn't becaue you are just a pathetic middle class pawn. You are a part of it by your blind allegiance and your willful ignorance. The pawns ALWAYS get sacrificed.

[Firespirit]

32. Whatever Hillary.

Somehow I doubt that New Hampshire Democrats, who threw the bums out last year, are in any doubt that there is a right-wing conspiracy.

The conspiracy that needs more light shed on it is the conspiracy of Democrats to use this right-wing conspiracy to undermine other Democrats when it suits their ambitions. And, unfortunately, Hillary and her campaign henchmen are a part of it.