Wait a minute: Hillary is under attack in the Democratic primaries by John Edwards and Barack Obama (and the anti-war group Code Pink), so she decides to run an ad blaming her woes on Republicans?
Eric Kleefeld at the liberal TPM Election Central site discusses the logic of the ad:
It would seem there are three reasons to run this ad: 1) Republican attacks against her that win over their own loyalists might also turn Dem-leaning independents against Hillary; 2) Going after the Republicans for attacking Hillary could have a rally-around-the-flag effect for Hillary with her own partisans; and 3) The Hillary campaign has been likening the intramural attacks from Barack Obama and John Edwards to those heard from Republicans, so this ad could be seeking to marginalize their critiques.Surely the Edwards and Obama campaigns will denounce the ad as dishonest, but I wonder what feminists like Garance Franke-Ruta think of tactics like this?
Of course, if Mrs. Clinton's Democratic rivals really want to get some "Republican attack machine" help, Brent Bozell and Tim Graham of the Media Research Center have a new book, "Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, but Conservatives Will."
-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times
Comments (1)
I think Hillary is so paranoid that she really believes that no other democrat could possibly want to attack her. Let's hope she keeps thinking this way. If she does, then Obama may actually win in Iowa. If he does, the earth will shake because the Democratic Party will never be the same again. I just think that it's becoming obvious that people hate Hillary and, when given an alternative, they'll vote for that person instead of her. I hope I'm right!
Posted by Libertyship46 | November 20, 2007 4:23 PM