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Pax Clintonia

1.25.08 @ 12:01AM

THERE ARE QUESTIONS
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.'s Hit Them Where it Hurts:

There is a very simple way to fight the Clintons and that is through ads on Radio and TV asking the following questions:

How much money have you made on cattle futures since your initial foray? If not, why?

What will four more years of Clintons in the White House accomplish that the first eight years did not?

Is Gennifer Flowers qualified to be president as she really slept with Bill?

What really happened to Buddy? Are you planning to get another dog?

If, as you testified, you can't recall things, how are you going to recall your duties as President while in office?

What skills did you employ in moving Arkansas from 45th to 49th place in education?

Just a sampling...
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Obama doesn't stand a chance, no matter what he does. The simple reason for this is that he is too good a person to stand against the Clintons for long. Not that I'm greatly enamored with the man or anything, or think him more honest, fair, or ethical than your average politician. But he's much better than either of the Clintons. Eventually he'll be faced with the choice of hitting back in fair play, or seeming weak against this duo of political destruction.

I suggest this for Republican/conservative strategy. Let the Clintons and Obama fight it out. Quietly encourage it without seeming to. Back Barack and bolster him just enough to keep him a threat to the Clinton's power aspirations. The more he seems a threat, the fiercer and meaner the Clintons will become, and the more damage the Clintons will do to their base and the Democrat Party.

Then, once Clinton has the nomination, tell the Republican candidate to stick to the issues and play nice, deflect the personal attacks the Clintons throw without responding. And then we fill the airways with reminders of the Clintons attacking the 'first black candidate' in their quest for power. And everything else.

After all, how hard can it really be to beat the Clintons? Only those who are deluded miss the fact that all they want is power.

Then again, I am preaching to the faithful, aren't I?
-- Charles Campbell

Ah, if only the Clintons would treat the nation's enemies with the malicious calculation and freewheeling ruthlessness they reserve for their countrymen! It would be Pax Americana indeed.
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, California

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