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Americans Against Hillary - More than half won’t vote for her.

More than half of Americans say they wouldn’t consider voting for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new national poll made available to McClatchy Newspapers and NBC News.

The poll by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research found that 52 percent of Americans wouldn’t consider voting for Clinton, D-N.Y. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, was second in the can’t-stand-’em category, with 46 percent saying they wouldn’t consider voting for him.

Clinton has long been considered a politically polarizing figure who would be a tough sell to some voters, especially many men, but also Clinton-haters of both genders.

Thursday’s survey provides a snapshot of the challenges she faces, according to Larry Harris, a Mason-Dixon principal.

“Hillary’s carrying a lot of baggage,” he said. “She’s the only one that has a majority who say they can’t vote for her.”

Clinton rang up high negatives across the board, with 60 percent of independents, 56 percent of men, 47 percent of women and 88 percent of Republicans saying they wouldn’t consider voting for her.

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It’s About Time: Rudy Bops Bubba on Terror

By CHARLES HURT and CARL CAMPANILE
Rudy Giuliani charged yesterday that Bill Clinton was soft on terrorism when he was president, calling his tenure “the decade of denial.”

The Republican White House hopeful and former mayor warned that Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democratic presidential candidates want to repeat the ex-chief executive’s mistakes of the 1990s.

Giuliani went after Bubba during a speech at religious broadcaster Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia Beach and later while addressing the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, D.C.

He said Clinton didn’t aggressively respond to the 1993 World Trade Center attack, or to subsequent atrocities by Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda before 9/11. Giuliani singled out the bombings of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996 and the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

“The United States government - then President Clinton - did not respond,” Giuliani said. “Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn’t hear it.”

Giuliani said that calls by the Democratic presidential candidates to withdraw from Iraq will embolden terrorists.

“I think they are in denial. They can’t face this threat. They couldn’t in the 1990s,” Giuliani said.

Then, while addressing the Jewish group at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville, Md., Giuliani called Bill Clinton’s tenure “the decade of denial.”
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The ‘96 Clinton scandal media ignored

By Jack Cashill

Last week I documented some of the consequences of what Sen. Fred Thompson called “the most corrupt political campaign in modern history,” namely the Clinton re-election campaign of 1996.

In 1997, Thompson chaired the Senate committee that investigated the campaign. Here is how that campaign began.

Following the Democratic electoral debacle in November 1994, President Clinton’s approval rating dipped to an unnervingly low 45 percent. The rating of his most likely Republican opponent, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, was cresting at 62 percent. Bill Clinton was staring down the barrel of a one-term presidency.

“I can tell you,” DNC finance chair Terry McAuliffe would later testify, “the political mood at the time clearly was that he had no chance of winning again.”

The Clintons had few options but to fight on. In early December 1994, in the White House treaty room, Bill and Hillary Clinton held a secret meeting with the one man who could possibly turn the tide of battle, political consultant Dick Morris.

More than a decade earlier, Morris had helped Clinton regain the governor’s office after an embarrassing post-first term defeat. In 1990, however, Morris and the Clintons split over an incident that reveals both Bill Clinton’s capacity for violence and Hillary’s for covering it up.

To date, Hillary Clinton has shown no inclination to share unpleasant truths. “Living History,” her autobiography, is almost as free of conflict as her book on Socks the cat. She casually attributes Morris’ refusal to work on the disastrous 1994 congressional campaign to his problems with their staff.

In an open letter to Hillary Clinton in National Review Online, Morris offered a more vivid accounting of the events of 1990 that caused their split.

Worried he was falling behind his opponent in a primary campaign, Clinton “verbally assaulted” Morris for not giving the campaign more time. When the offended Morris turned and stalked out of the room, Clinton followed.

“Bill ran after me,” Morris writes, “tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me. You [Hillary] grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me.”

Morris also volunteers that when the story threatened to surface again during the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary told him to “say it never happened.”

Desperate times, however, called for desperate measures, and so Morris was summoned once again, this time by Hillary herself. At their first get-together, Morris insisted on weekly meetings thereafter, and the president agreed. For the first month, Hillary attended the meetings and then strategically withdrew.

As Morris relates, Clinton would share Morris’ advice and the polling data with Hillary, and “she read every word.” When he encountered Hillary, Morris adds, “She showed familiarity with every bit of it.”

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Hillary & Other Democrats Want Talks With Iran

Democratic presidential contenders Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday the United States should keep talking to Iran as part of an international diplomatic effort to persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and a former ambassador to the United Nations, said the United States should stop threatening Tehran and begin talks with no preconditions on its nuclear ambitions.

“Talking without preconditions does not mean backing off one inch over fundamental objectives, such as ensuring that Iran never acquires nuclear weapons,” Richardson said in a speech to the Center for National Policy.

In a separate speech, Clinton said the Bush administration, which has had minimal direct dealings with Iran, seems reluctant to continue engaging Tehran. She faulted the administration for giving Iran “six years of the silent treatment.”

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Al Gore Is Hillary’s Worst Nightmare

Former Vice President Al Gore is New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s worst nightmare in the nation”s first primary, a new poll shows.

If Mr. Gore got into the 2008 presidential nomination contest, he would edge out Mrs. Clinton in New Hampshire 32 percent to 26 percent and defeat the rest of the Democratic contenders, says a 7NEWS-Suffolk University poll of likely voters.

“Gore is the only Democrat, including Hillary, who can instantly melt the field,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, which conducted the survey.

Absent a Gore entry, Mrs. Clinton is the clear front-runner among declared Democratic candidates, with 37 percent, up from 28 percent in the same poll taken in March.

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is second at 19 percent, followed by both John Edwards and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson at 9 percent.

“The Democratic candidates debate a few weeks ago may have helped Hillary and hurt Barack Obama,” Mr. Paleologos said. “Gore takes the most votes from Obama. I think a chunk of Obama voters in New Hampshire are anybody-but-Hillary Democrats.”

On the Republican side, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has jumped to first from third, with 26 percent, followed by former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani at 22 percent, according to the June 20-24 poll.

Mr. Romney was at 17 percent in March — four points above the 13 percent received by Arizona Sen. John McCain and undeclared candidate Fred Thompson in the new poll.

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