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Rudy runs a rebuttal ad

Posted by: Brian Tumulty - Posted in 2008, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Rudy Giuliani, White House on Sep 14, 2007

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani ran a full-page page ad in today’s New York Times responding to an ad taken out earlier this week by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org regarding Gen. David Petraeus.

The MoveOn.org ad used the headline, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?’’ to ask if the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq was “Cooking the Books for the White House.’’

Today’s ad paid for by JoinRudy2008.com asks, “Who should America listen to… A decorated soldier’s commitment to defending America, or Hillary Clinton’s commitment to defending MoveOn.org?’’

In an interview Wednesday with public TV newscaster Charlie Rose, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sidestepped his question about the “appropriateness’’ of the MoveOn.org ad.

“I think we should focus on what the problem is here,’’ Clinton told Rose. “The problem is we have a president who has a policy that flies in the face of reality. I don’t fault people who are serving their country and fulfiulling the mission that they have been given.’’

Giuliani, appearing on Fox News channel’s “Hannity and Colmes” show last night, called the MoveOn.org ad “a despicable attack’’ and was critical of Clinton’s comment at a Senate hearing that Petraeus’s testmony required “the willing suspension of disbelief.’’

“Hillary Clinton should disown and condemn Moveon.org, and she really has to explain her complicity in this,’’ Giuliani said. “I mean, that’s a pretty despicable attack on an American general at a time of war. After all, this is a man, whatever you think of the success or lack of success, this is a man who’s put his life at risk, you know, day in, day out, to try to keep his troops safe, to try to keep us successful. He’s—right now, his life is at risk in trying to keep America safe. She has some nerve attacking his integrity.’’

 
 
 
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3 Responses to “Rudy runs a rebuttal ad”


  1. Jim Kelly - Conservative Campaigns

    RE: Rudy

    My buddies over at the Conservative GOP Presidential Campaigns are happy with the continued “Positive Trends� of most polls in the early states for their candidates. It appears their messages is now getting out to the target audience…. AKA…...Concerned “Primary Voters�

    One camp advised me that they expect this trend to continue and only get better for the Conservative Candidates in these early States.

    For the third straight day, Thompson is the top choice for 28% of Likely Republican Primary Voters. For the first time all year, Rudy Giuliani has fallen below the 20% level of support and is now the favorite for just 19%.
    Thompson now leads Giuliani by 14 percentage points among political conservatives. Thompson also leads in Georgia.

    Arizona Senator John McCain moves up to 13% and now has a three-point advantage over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at 10%. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee remains atop the second tier at 5%. Unlike other polls, this one polls the “Likely Primary Voters�!

    Read the Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Here:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/
    daily_presidential_tracking_poll__1

    Jim Kelly – Conservative Campaigns
    “Never give up Your Unparalleled Moral, Religious or Political Convictions!�

  2. Ethan Edwards

    Hillary and other Dem candidates are owned by MoveOn.

    There is a quote from one of the MoveOn bosses, a few years ago, which states just that.

    They won’t condemn MoveOn for just that reason. They
    are in bed with the radical left, which now controls
    the Democratic Party. Sad to say, this isn’t Harry Truman
    or JFK’s Democratic Party any more.

  3. the consultant

    The failure of Hillary to respect the opinion of
    general petreus and to pander to the anti war
    faction of her party is an illustration of just
    exactly why she should not be elected president
    Rudy was right when he called for statemanship…
    she doens’t have the right stuff…her husband bill
    did….it came to him naturally ..she is forced and
    inauthentic…she did not have to buy in to the
    presidents call for the troops to remain but she
    could have done it in a way that did not
    demean the integrity of someone everyone on both parties
    recognizes is a fine military commander



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