On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:38:55 +1200, "Sgt. America" 
wrote:

>http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/04/01/nyregion/hillary.184.jpg
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>Clinton Supporters Gear Up Against 'Swift Boat' Tactics
>By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
>
>Published: April 1, 2005
>
>WASHINGTON, March 31 - With 19 months to go before the elections and no
>opponent in sight, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is
>nonetheless warning her political supporters that she is the prime
>target of "the right-wing attack machine."
>
>In a fund-raising e-mail message sent out on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton's
>campaign also said her critics were preparing an advertising campaign
>against her similar to the one orchestrated by Swift Boat Veterans for
>Truth, a group that attacked Senator John Kerry's Vietnam service during
>the presidential election.
>
>"The right wing is already getting ready, naming Hillary as their 'No. 1
>target' and boasting about their 'Swift Boat' style ads," said the
>e-mail message, which was sent by Ann F. Lewis, the director of
>communications for Mrs. Clinton's campaign committee, Friends of
>Hillary. "Help us show the right wing that we will be ready and able to
>fight back."
>
>In many respects, the fund-raising letter is a fairly standard piece of
>campaign literature, employing the kind of scare tactics that Republican
>and Democratic politicians routinely use to mobilize their supporters.
>
>That said, the fund-raising solicitation exposes a side of Mrs. Clinton
>- fiery partisan - that she has rarely displayed in the four years since
>she arrived in the Senate, where she has won over many Republican
>colleagues with a nonconfrontational and even cordial style.
>
>In an interview, Ms. Lewis said the e-mail message was largely sent in
>response to published reports that Republicans are creating a political
>action committee seeking to raise $10 million to run a campaign against
>Mrs. Clinton in 2006. The committee is reportedly going to model its
>campaign after the one that the Swift Boat veterans used in 2004 to
>attack Mr. Kerry's war record, Ms. Lewis said.
>
>The Clinton e-mail solicitation - one of two sent this week - also
>suggests that her formidable fund-raising apparatus is gearing up for
>what her aides say could become a tough re-election season. To date,
>Mrs. Clinton has amassed $5.5 million in her war chest, according to the
>latest campaign disclosure statement.
>
>Though Mrs. Clinton's popularity rating is high and New York Republican
>leaders have yet to find a candidate to run against her, people close to
>the senator say they expect Republicans around the country to pump money
>into New York in an effort to defeat her. Indeed, some Republicans say
>they believe that if they do not stop Mrs. Clinton in 2006, she will be
>in a strong position to run for the presidency in 2008.
>
>In the 2000 Senate campaign, Mrs. Clinton spent nearly $30 million. She
>faced two Republican challengers: Rudolph W. Giuliani, who spent about
>$20.7 million before dropping out, and Rick A. Lazio, a congressman from
>Long Island who spent $40.6 million, according to the Center for
>Responsive Politics.
>
Too bad she wouldn't pick up on fathers' rights and men's issues a bit
more; it is necessary. Her voting history and choices make her
specifically anti-male.


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