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Ärende: Hillary
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The vast rightwing conspiracy is returning...  She's already being a 
good liberal and taking on the victim role...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/nyregion/metrocampaigns/01hillary.html

Clinton Supporters Gear Up Against 'Swift Boat' Tactics
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ 

Published: April 1, 2005


ASHINGTON, March 31 - With 19 months to go before the elections and no 
opponent in sight, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is 
nonetheless warning her political supporters that she is the prime 
target of "the right-wing attack machine."

In a fund-raising e-mail message sent out on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton's 
campaign also said her critics were preparing an advertising campaign 
against her similar to the one orchestrated by Swift Boat Veterans for 
Truth, a group that attacked Senator John Kerry's Vietnam service during 
the presidential election.

 
"The right wing is already getting ready, naming Hillary as their 'No. 1 
target' and boasting about their 'Swift Boat' style ads," said the e-
mail message, which was sent by Ann F. Lewis, the director of 
communications for Mrs. Clinton's campaign committee, Friends of 
Hillary. "Help us show the right wing that we will be ready and able to 
fight back."

In many respects, the fund-raising letter is a fairly standard piece of 
campaign literature, employing the kind of scare tactics that Republican 
and Democratic politicians routinely use to mobilize their supporters.

That said, the fund-raising solicitation exposes a side of Mrs. Clinton - 
fiery partisan - that she has rarely displayed in the four years since 
she arrived in the Senate, where she has won over many Republican 
colleagues with a nonconfrontational and even cordial style.

In an interview, Ms. Lewis said the e-mail message was largely sent in 
response to published reports that Republicans are creating a political 
action committee seeking to raise $10 million to run a campaign against 
Mrs. Clinton in 2006. The committee is reportedly going to model its 
campaign after the one that the Swift Boat veterans used in 2004 to 
attack Mr. Kerry's war record, Ms. Lewis said.

The Clinton e-mail solicitation - one of two sent this week - also 
suggests that her formidable fund-raising apparatus is gearing up for 
what her aides say could become a tough re-election season. To date, 
Mrs. Clinton has amassed $5.5 million in her war chest, according to the 
latest campaign disclosure statement.

Though Mrs. Clinton's popularity rating is high and New York Republican 
leaders have yet to find a candidate to run against her, people close to 
the senator say they expect Republicans around the country to pump money 
into New York in an effort to defeat her. Indeed, some Republicans say 
they believe that if they do not stop Mrs. Clinton in 2006, she will be 
in a strong position to run for the presidency in 2008.

In the 2000 Senate campaign, Mrs. Clinton spent nearly $30 million. She 
faced two Republican challengers: Rudolph W. Giuliani, who spent about 
$20.7 million before dropping out, and Rick A. Lazio, a congressman from 
Long Island who spent $40.6 million, according to the Center for 
Responsive Politics.


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