Hillary: Terror Attacks Help Republicans


In a new low of political promoting, Senator Hillary Clinton says that a new terror attack would help Republicans. The New York senator is reported by the New York Post online edition as saying,

"It's a horrible prospect to ask yourself, 'What if? What if?' But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world,"

This brings up two points. Firstly, how low has political campaigning sunk that any candidate for the Presidency would even consider saying something like this as part of a campaign? Whether a terror attack would or would not help a single political party should be irrelevant- all Americans should be working together to prevent a terror attack and to defeat our enemies. We should be working together regardless of who occupies the White House. Unfortunately, that message apparently hasn't reached most of the Democratic Party.

Secondly, how can any media outlet, especially one from a city that has first-hand experience of being attacked by Islamic terror, treat this statement as being a normal, straightforward campaign sound bite? The Post should be ashamed of itself for not highlighting this statement as the outrageously partisan and (in my opinion) unpatriotic statement that it is. But the Post can only bring itself to call the statement 'surprising'.

The former first lady made the surprising comments as she explained to supporters that she has beaten back the GOP's negative attacks for years, and is ready to do so again.

This is yet another indication that where Democrats and especially Hillary are concerned, the national media has only one standard for their comments- help them win at any cost. How else can one explain the lack of critical analysis that accompanies the Post's reporting of this over-the-top accusation from Senator Clinton?


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Mishandled it?

Why are we less safe today than in the 90's?

JDW

News media: Scoreboard for terrorists

 

Maybe we don't need a terrorist attack

Maybe a terrorist attack would help us but it may also be that assinine comments like this will help us just as well.

Less mayhem with as good an outcome.

Thank yew Hillary!

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

and yet the dems continue

and yet the dems continue to support the terrorists

kind of like the dems aborting their own future voters

a very curious bunch

Sigh...

What can you say about someone like this...

Only a Democrat would look at a terrorist event through the primary filter of how it would or would not help them in the next election.

I continue to be sickened by Hil... I can't even write her name.

Since government is coercion, politics is largely the exercise of deception regarding the intended use of coercion - George Orwell

GOP Attacks?

So Hillary has 'beaten back the GOP's negative attacks for years . . "

Perhaps if her husband spent his time beating back the Al Qaeda attacks we wouldn't be in this war.

Come on, Mica!

Hillary has been an ardent foot soldier in the war against the VRWC for eons....doncha know?

Actually, since Bill got his, um, you know, from Monica.

HRC is a total skank. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

  The Path To 9/11: The

 

The Path To 9/11: The Inside Story

http://ibdeditorials.com/podcasts.aspx

 

Check out the "deleted" scene ...

 

`Nuf said ...

Too Early

This "running for the Presidency" has NEVER started so Early as this year......and it gives lots of time for Candidates to say insane political things like this....

The exposure over time will be deadly........as we will all know the candidates so well....even if we don't wanna.

At least the Dems. have a reason to "Wire Tap" and prevent any new attacks.....they are motivated in this direction, but for the WRONG REASONS. 

Protecting America.....is protecting Democrapic posteriors.  

What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ?   David Foote  GoE

Okay, notwithstanding all

Okay, notwithstanding all the points about partisan media and what a nutty thing it was to say, what about her point?

Shouldn't someone in the media (Lord knows the Dims won't do it) ask, "Gee, why is the Republican Party seen by the American people as being more capable in terms of national defense?"

I know...too much to ask.

Exactly, John Gault

That was my first thought, too.  

It's pretty obvious that this is a tacit admission by Hillary that Democrats are seen by the public as being second best when it comes to defending the country.

Not only that...

but isn't this a direct admission by HRC that she is less capable of handling national security than any of the GOP candidates? 

Basically, she is admitting that my campaign so far has not been able to make a strong case that she's better on  national security.  Or that she has not done anything as Senator for 7 years to make us more secure.

 

<insert witty signature here>

Security

What security measures hasn't she opposed?

JDW

News media: Scoreboard for terrorists

 

The shame that is HRC

"This brings up two points. Firstly, how low has political campaigning sunk that any candidate for the Presidency would even consider saying something like this as part of a campaign? Whether a terror attack would or would not help a single political party should be irrelevant- all Americans should be working together to prevent a terror attack and to defeat our enemies. We should be working together regardless of who occupies the White House." 

Richard, this goes way back to 2000.  That is what it has always been about.  'Stolen' elections.  The Dems finally reaching break point and literally hollering on the Senate floor (Ted Kennedy during Judge Confirmations).  The spoiled rotten attitudes of the 'entitled'.  Listen to ALL of their members and hear the phrase "Take Back" as if it was unjustly pried from their hands.  I am SICK of this near violent partisanship that has hijacked our system.  They (dems) are one step away from armed mob status.  This country is in SERIOUS trouble if they don't stop fanning the partisan flames.  Hillary should be disowned by the Democrats for even suggesting such a thing.  However, today's democrat party is not the same it was.  It was once sensible, relevant, and was actually PROGRESSIVE.  Now, it is nothing but the 'other' party that is loud, angry, and violent.  It's very sad that they can play politics with the way we are being kept safe. 

Hillary Rodham Clinton, You owe an apology to every single person who lost a friend or family member in any of the attacks on our country.  Not just Spetember 11th either.  True, Patriotic Americans remember all the other attacks that occurred on your husbands watch whilst doing NOTHING about them.  Did the Republicans accuse your husband of playing politics with those attacks that he did NOTHING about?  No.  He bombed an asprin factory.  I wonder what INTELLIGENCE he used to do that?  You are the biggest phony of all time, and do not deserve to be where you are right now.  What qualifies you to be a Senator?  What qualifies you to be POTUS?  Absolutely NOTHING!  You rode the coat tails of your husband to power.  Fortunately for you, the uneducated liberal masses (your presidential stepping stones)accepted your complete lack of experience and elected you based on who you ASSOCIATED with.  Everything you do is calculated, planned etc to be a gain for YOU.  You couldn't even hold it in when you were first lady.  How many times did you say "We have a job to do"?  When it was really only Bill who had a job to do? 

Only one good thing can come of your potential presidency.  The complete shock that will consume every American when their country begins crumbling around them, and is reminded why people need to have experience and will to be POTUS.  I am insulted that you even think you are qualified.  Do you think this is some kind of Joke?  Some kind of social status?  Eveidently.  You are the WORST person to be considered for the POTUS.  Don't let your conscience stop you from damaging the Country you live in.  I hate you

The American Revolution Continued

6 String Riff...WOW...that was a 12 string Riff...

Reading 6 String's comments....It's encouraging to see youg people recognize the 60's generation hippies.......the ones that didn't "merge" into the American mainstream. One wonders if Hillary's appeal translates to the 80's and 90's generation. Chelsea needs to hit the campaign trail if there is any hope for pulling in the votes.

What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ?   David Foote  GoE

Triple-S, The problem isn't

Triple-S, The problem isn't really with the Democratic Party, it is the party leadership. It is disturbingly similar to the current world situation with Islam. How many times have you heard that it is only a small percentage of Muslims that are causing all the trouble in the world? Yet the vast majority do absolutely nothing to stop these few trouble-makers. 

Well, it's only a small percentage of Democrats that are causing all our trouble. But the two situations both beg the same answer - What are the rest of them doing while these "small percentages" are doing damage? Why aren't true, progressive Democrats pounding on their representatives to remove the likes of Dean, Schumer, Kennedy, Pelosi, Murtha, and all their ilk from positions of power within the party? While the overall party may not have much to do with the actual selection of these morons for their positions, they sure as hall have something to say about keeping them in those positions. If true, moderate, prograssive Democrats filled the congressional power positions, we'd see much less divisiveness and perhaps even some actual progress.

As for Shrillary's "we have a job to do" comments, I don't recall the exact details, but I seem to remember an instance (quickly hushed up, of course) when she, as FLOTUS, was told she couldn't sit in a classified briefing (or something along those lines), her response was an indignant (and shrill) "WE ARE THE PRESIDENT". I've heard of two-faced politicians before, but isn't that a little extreme???

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

FLOTUS ? ?

Gee, I'm gettin old.....let's see here...First Lady of.....yep, I got it.

Those "F" words are difficult to replace the first thing that comes to mind.  

 

meanwhile....as you say if "true, moderate, prograssive Democrats" show up at the Dem convention, we'll have some fireworks.....that will be a show !!

But I think the Anti-War crowd is planning a Trip to Denver and will protest the Dem convention...From FOX news Brit Hume below........ 

An illustration of the intense pressure Democrats are under from the anti-war liberal left can be found in news about plans already underway for major protests at the party's presidential nominating convention in Denver next summer.

The group is called Re-create 68 — a reference to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago that saw the party torn apart by anti-war protests

What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ?   David Foote  GoE

Well of course it does

Democrats wouldnt do a thing to stop it or anything in response...

 

How could it NOT help. Everyone knows Republicans kick butt...if they only let us do it our way...

asdf

Pre-9/11 mentality.

If Russian communism were to be a booming success, Hillary would be president.

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested,
exiled, or hanged." -Abraham Lincoln

   This is sad to say but

   This is sad to say but maybe she was not just talking to the American public.  The leadership of Al Qaeda is also watching closely our political process.  We've all noted how some of the videos they have released sounded like they were repeating democrat talking points. 

  We haven't had a major attack since 9-11 and that is partly because we have that 'go it alone if I have to cowboy' in the Whitehouse.  The type of person who replaces him will detemine the actions of our enemies.

She's pointing out...

That Democrats are VERY soft on National Security and most of the libs and some moderates want to forget that we are under attack (the ostrich syndrome). Some are even still in denial. So anything that happens to remind people of reality is only good for Republicans / conservatives. It's very simple (as proven by Hillary figuring it out).

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic

Dems' 2 fears: Terrorist attack and Winning the War

You're right, c5then. 

The Dems fear that a terrorist attack will destroy their political rhetoric about Bush's 'climate of fear.' 

But even worse, they don't want any positive news to come out of Iraq, because it would undermine their agenda.  Imagine the GOP of WW2 days, hoping we would lose to the Axis in order to weaken FDR's re-election prospects. 

These fears mark a Democratic Party without direction, and lacking American core values and morality.

Let me refresh your memory...

Bill Clinton famously was quoted as admitting that the Oklahoma City Bombing saved his presidency after his humiliating defeat in 1994.

Maybe Hillary read the recent quote in the August 5, 2007 New York Times:

"It is a little-noted oddity of history that long before Osama bin Laden rescued George W. Bush’s faltering first term, Timothy McVeigh did much the same for Bill Clinton."

It's called projection. These leftists externalize the despicable impulses they themselves are driven by.

Hillary

She's a Clinton first and of course she would blame/criticize the Bush administration.  Just wait untill '08.  I believe the Dems will go down because people will finally realize that they are not leaders, they are children in a sandbox.

This is it.  This is the

This is it.  This is the one quote that can kill her campaign.  She really put her foot in it this time.  Even as we speak, every single one of her opponents is now ready to make this into an attack ad.  Heck, you don't have to do much.  Just run the quote.

We know where Hillary's real priorities are now*, and it's on public record.

-PJ

*Hint:  It's not Homeland Security.

"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07 

Just because she said it

Just because she said it doesn't mean the average American will ever know about it.

Her media compadres are trying to bury this story as we speak, which for them will be quite simple-all they need to do is NOT report it.

With Hillary, it's all about

With Hillary, it's all about how to get the prize. Say anything (in the appropriate accent of course), do anything and not worry about consequences as her flank is covered by the MSM. What a despicable panderer she is...

Is she campaigning to the

Is she campaigning to the terrorists?

"You'd better cool it with your terrorist acts until after the election, Mr. Terrorist Man, or else you are going to get a Republican president who's going to take the fight to you instead of looking the other way."

*****

"Some people have a way with words. Other people, er, I don't know. Not have way, I guess." - Steve Martin

I cannot wait to watch the

I cannot wait to watch the melt-down of this evil creature know as Hillary....

It will happen too....whether it is defeat in '08 or beforehand....

She is Enemy Number One.

Just one more reason why I

Just one more reason why I hope Hillary is the democrat nominee for President. As long as we don't nominate someone who is completely unelectable, we will have a Republican in the White House in 2009 if she is the opponent.

It just illustrates yet

It just illustrates yet again that the Democrats (especially that vapid troll) are more concerned about gathering and maintaining political power than they are in protecting the country.  Case closed.

Sound like...

... a public hint to terrorists: don't attack the US before the general election or those hard nosed republicans will get elected, and they'lll keep bombing you.

thats my take/

This won't hurt Hillary a

This won't hurt Hillary a bit, because the press will bury the story-by not reporting her words.

So far only CNN has "reported" it, although the NYT and WaPo both briefly mention it on their "blogs".

Still Hate These Subject Lines

It's the first thing that I've heard Hillary say that I agree with.

treebeard

so do you think that if the general population is forced to look at reality, it means more conservative votes?

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”   -Chief Justice John Roberts

Let's take a look at

Let's take a look at possible scenarios if a terrorist attack occurs before the election.

If such an attack occurs, Hillary, the rest of the obstructionist Democrats, and the news media would all be screaming that the intelligence agencies didn't do their jobs, and it's Bush's responsibility.

No one will mention that the above groups opposed legislation that would make it possible or easier for the intelligence organs to collect information about possible terrorist attacks.  Not one of them will mention how treasonous rags such as the New York Times published information on methods of intelligence gathering so that terrorist groups could evade detection (NSA listening) and foreign governments withheld cooperation (SWIFT program).

So, the outcome would be one of two things: either the sheeple would buy into this drivel and vote Democrat because "the Republicans failed to keep us safe", or enough people would wake up to the fact that it has been the left who has prevented the grown-ups in Congress from keeping us safe.  If the second happened, then they would vote Republican, and yes, a terrorist attack would have helped the Republicans.

One of the things that might work against Republicans would be Bush, McCain, Kyl, Graham, et al in the Republican party refusing to secure our borders and refusing to enforce immigration laws.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan