Warlady
08-22-2005, 08:38 PM
Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 1:00 p.m. EDT
Pirro: No Negative Attacks on Hillary When Jeanine Pirro announced her interest in running against Hillary Clinton, she reminded reporters who dismissed her chances: "I'm a fighter."
But already Pirro appears to be unilaterally disarming - by issuing a promise not to fight back against a vicious series of personal attacks by Mrs. Clinton's media surrogates.
"Republicans who want us to throw mud at [Hillary] will be disappointed," Pirro campaign manager Kieran Mahoney tells New York magazine, before stating flatly: "We won’t engage in negative attacks."
Asked to certify the no-negative-campaign pledge with a formal promise, the Pirro insider responded: "Jeanine already has."
Instead, Mahoney said, the thrust of his boss's campaign will be to complain that Mrs. Clinton is a "part-time" Senator with her eye on the White House.
What about critics who say that line's likely to wear thin sooner rather than later?
"Those people have never won a New York statewide election," Mahoney scoffed. "I’ve won many."
Pirro's "stay positive" pledge would seem to take a whole host of winning issues off the table.
Issues like:
Hillary's role as first lady in appointing Jamie Gorelick to replace Webb Hubbell as her eyes and ears at the Justice Department - a particularly disastrous move given Gorelick's "Wall of Separation" directive, which critics say blocked the FBI from questioning lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta a year before the attacks.
The rest (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/21/130233.shtml?et=y)
I believe this is a mistake. Bob Dole waited until the end of his campaign to tell the truth about the Clintons all the while they were bashing him and Republicans. It cost him the election. If Pirro doesn't go "truthful" with the public in her campaign then she will lose as well. The Clinton's and Democrats will smash her like a pot of boiled potatoes. Mark my words.
Pirro: No Negative Attacks on Hillary When Jeanine Pirro announced her interest in running against Hillary Clinton, she reminded reporters who dismissed her chances: "I'm a fighter."
But already Pirro appears to be unilaterally disarming - by issuing a promise not to fight back against a vicious series of personal attacks by Mrs. Clinton's media surrogates.
"Republicans who want us to throw mud at [Hillary] will be disappointed," Pirro campaign manager Kieran Mahoney tells New York magazine, before stating flatly: "We won’t engage in negative attacks."
Asked to certify the no-negative-campaign pledge with a formal promise, the Pirro insider responded: "Jeanine already has."
Instead, Mahoney said, the thrust of his boss's campaign will be to complain that Mrs. Clinton is a "part-time" Senator with her eye on the White House.
What about critics who say that line's likely to wear thin sooner rather than later?
"Those people have never won a New York statewide election," Mahoney scoffed. "I’ve won many."
Pirro's "stay positive" pledge would seem to take a whole host of winning issues off the table.
Issues like:
Hillary's role as first lady in appointing Jamie Gorelick to replace Webb Hubbell as her eyes and ears at the Justice Department - a particularly disastrous move given Gorelick's "Wall of Separation" directive, which critics say blocked the FBI from questioning lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta a year before the attacks.
The rest (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/21/130233.shtml?et=y)
I believe this is a mistake. Bob Dole waited until the end of his campaign to tell the truth about the Clintons all the while they were bashing him and Republicans. It cost him the election. If Pirro doesn't go "truthful" with the public in her campaign then she will lose as well. The Clinton's and Democrats will smash her like a pot of boiled potatoes. Mark my words.