When Rudy Meet Hillary
When Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton first went at each other for the New York Senate seat, the battle tactics were defined:
Well, Clinton's authenticity is definitely up for debate, but her experience really isn't (she's come a long way from heading the health care reform as First Lady). The "liberal champion of big government" is a misleading term because it implies that Hillary has the base behind her (not true) and that all liberals favor big government (also not true). And yes, she moved to New York in order to run for the Senate, but she isn't the first politician to do so, and where does it say that someone with name recognition can't accomplish what someone who's live in a state all their lives can?
As for Giuliani: if he's dividing anything, it's the Republican base. I'd say leaving your wife via a press conference qualifies as "undignified." If being an unstable powder keg makes you unsuited for the Senate, they should be removing more people now. As far as being "profoundly uninterested in national and international affairs," well, you know.
With FoxNews all but crowning Giuliani and MSNBC going ga-ga with Clinton scenarios, it looks like voting may just be ceremonial at this point. Nevertheless, I'd like to remind the media that the primaries aren't over and that there are other candidates on both sides.
Mr. Giuliani was going to portray Mrs. Clinton as inauthentic, inexperienced, a liberal champion of big government and a carpetbagger, his advisers said in interviews. Mrs. Clinton was going to paint Mr. Giuliani as divisive and undignified, temperamentally unsuited for the Senate, and profoundly uninterested in national and international affairs, her advisers said.
Well, Clinton's authenticity is definitely up for debate, but her experience really isn't (she's come a long way from heading the health care reform as First Lady). The "liberal champion of big government" is a misleading term because it implies that Hillary has the base behind her (not true) and that all liberals favor big government (also not true). And yes, she moved to New York in order to run for the Senate, but she isn't the first politician to do so, and where does it say that someone with name recognition can't accomplish what someone who's live in a state all their lives can?
As for Giuliani: if he's dividing anything, it's the Republican base. I'd say leaving your wife via a press conference qualifies as "undignified." If being an unstable powder keg makes you unsuited for the Senate, they should be removing more people now. As far as being "profoundly uninterested in national and international affairs," well, you know.
With FoxNews all but crowning Giuliani and MSNBC going ga-ga with Clinton scenarios, it looks like voting may just be ceremonial at this point. Nevertheless, I'd like to remind the media that the primaries aren't over and that there are other candidates on both sides.
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