Shrum and Mahoney on Hillary
Bob Shrum thinks not. Here's what he told an audience of NYU graduate school students at a panel discussion last night:
"By the way, the Republican Party will do everything they can, if they want to run against her like they say they do, not to damage her between now and the time the nominating process begins."
Republican consultant and fellow panelist Kieran Mahoney, whose business partner is working on John McCain's campaign, still says the GOP would welcome her with open arms.
"Hillary Clinton's perceived ideology is more liberal than Mario Cuomo's, more liberal than Bella Abzug's in statewide surveys," he said. "I just think you can't sell that you can sell that in Ohio. I don't think I can sell that in Ohio."
Shrum's response:
"You've just seen a preview of the McCain candidacy played out in the course of a couple hours. 'I'm a centrist. I'm in the mainstream. Hillary's extreme. Vote for me.'"
-- Azi Paybarah
Actually you can sell that in OHIO as they are very tired of the GOP out there and well with Ohio it would be President Kerry right now.
When is the last time Bob Shrum was with a winning presidential campaign--FDR?
Mondays and Tuesdays you can count on Bob Schrum to regurgitate whatever Frank Rich wrote. Wednesdays and Thursdays he'll give you the talking points from Maureen Dowd. He doesn't work on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
HUZZAH,Anonymous!
Let's think about this: wasn't it Mahoney who crafted the message that this past years campaigns against Hillary should resonate with the theme that New Yorkers will reject her because she was really running for President: a sentiment that the Gallup poll demonstrated meant something to only 23% of the voters? Idiot thinking that helped sink both Pirro and the hapless John Spencer. Keiran needs to either fire the dingbat brigade he has around him or start to get back in touch with real New Yorkers before he starts advising NY Republicans.