Campaigning in New Hampshire, Clinton claimed that she—and her husband, the former president—are the Democrats that Rove and other leading Republican handicappers fear most.
“I know what Gingrich tells people privately, I know what DeLay tells people privately, I know what Karl Rove tells people privately,” she said. “I’m the one person they are most afraid of. Bill and I have beaten them before, and we will again.”
Clinton did not offer support for her claim that Rove believes she is the most formidable Democrat, but former House Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay have both warned publicly that Republicans are headed for defeat, most likely at Clinton’s hands, if the party does not do a better job of organizing itself and presenting a winning message to voters.
Clinton’s boast came as she continued to face tough questioning from Granite State voters about her 2002 vote authorizing the use of military force in Iraq. She responded with sharp anti-administration and anti-war rhetoric.
“I share the sense of anger and outrage and just deep, deep disappointment at what the president has done in Iraq,” Clinton told more than 2,000 people at Keene High School. “We have not had the opportunity until now, with a Democratic Congress coming in, to get them to do much about it.” She said Bush’s “refusal to engage in diplomacy, effective diplomacy, has been tragic mistake,” and called
the Iraq conflict “a gnawing, painful sore” that she would end if elected.
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I may have to rethink my position.
One suspects that the “gnawing, painful sore” of Iraq would be the least of our concerns if Senatrix Clinton is elected president. [shudder!]
I am wondering what “diplomacy” she intends to utilize with AQ?
For some reason her comment seemed like a Lex luthor type of statment.
Where is OUR SUPERMAN???
“I know what Gingrich tells people privately, I know what DeLay tells people privately, I know what Karl Rove tells people privately,†she said. “I’m the one person they are most afraid of….”
Well, hell, yeah! She’s got 24-hour surveillance on them! I’d be afraid of her too. Is that even legal?
“a gnawing, painful sore†that she would end if elected.
Is she really talking about Iraq, or her marriage to Bill?
Here’s to hoping that this Clinton is half as tough on Osama as the last one was on David Koresh.
And considering Bill’s exxxtra-marital activities, perhaps she has had one “gnawing, painful sore” too many.
*rimshot*
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week!
Those boob-enlarging stem cells are the ADULT type, Dan, not the nasty embryonic ones.
Otis! What do you, I and the number 200 have in common?
Gee, I dunno, Mr. Luther…
Your weight and my IQ…
“I’m the one person they are most afraid of……â€Â
Well I’m afraid of her. Luckily I don’t have the vote, so she can’t make me. I think I got the vernacular right.
Afraid of Hillary? It’s true I sometimes wake up screaming in the middle of the night because I’ve dreamed she moved in next door with her 40+ flying monkeys, but I don’t live next door to the White House.
And who is the thrid-party candidate that will allow Hildabeast to win this round? Perot is too old. Gingrich is not insane, is he? Maybe Buchanan?
you take that back! oh, uh, actually, I think he’s having too much fun making insane amounts of money.
I think RTO’s mentioned it before, but when he’s not doing the army thing he works for a company where Ross has an office. It took everything I had not to giggle like a schoolgirl the couple times I saw him in the lobby.
Because he looks like a Gremlin?
Robert, yeah, he’s so tiny.