For the "Hillary 2008" folks, Malkin's already doing Rove's dirty work

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Think the mud-slinging will start a few months before the 2008 presidential campaign?

THINK AGAIN.





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ALL THE CLINTONS' BAGMEN
By Michelle Malkin · April 22, 2005 08:46 AM

The New York Sun's Josh Gerstein is following the trail of Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fund-raising flim-flam men. He reported earlier this week on a mystery Demo witness who "has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide to Mrs. Clinton, David Rosen."

Today, Gerstein identifies Mr. X as Ray Reggie--Teddy Kennedy's brother-in-law. (A Power Line reader nailed it yesterday.) Excerpt:

At a federal court hearing yesterday morning, Reggie, 43, who organized fund-raisers for President and Mrs. Clinton, pleaded guilty to two felony charges, bank fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors described check-kiting and loan fraud schemes he operated involving three Louisiana banks, but they did not publicly detail his cooperation with the government.

The New York Sun reported yesterday that an unnamed witness with ties to a prominent political figure has been involved in recent federal investigations of campaign fund-raising violations, including a probe into alleged financial misreporting in Mrs. Clinton's bid for the Senate in 2000. The informant, described in court papers only as a "confidential witness," was part of an FBI plan to secretly audiotape conversations with political operatives, including a well-known person who prosecutors said was seeking to funnel donations from foreigners to federal campaigns.

Several people with knowledge of the case identified Reggie as the informant described in the Sun article...

...The disclosure that Reggie was surreptitiously recording conversations for the FBI may have caused some heartburn yesterday for Democrats who have had contact with him since 2002.

Maybe. Probably not.

[Warpy]

1. Hell, she's doing us all a favor

The last thing we need in 2008 is another DLC candidate like Mrs. Clinton. The DLC is a dinosaur. Keep them around as examples of what NOT to do in political campaigns, but keep them the hell away from party power.

They've lost us all 3 branches of government. It's time to push them aside and take our party back.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. I'm just saying that it's going to happen, and nothing can stop it.

It seems like every other day on DU we have a "Hillary in 08?" thread.

Let's put it this way.

If Karl Rove drops dead between now and 2008, and no one follows in his footsteps (like he did in Lee Atwater's)...

...MAYBE...

...just MAYBE...

Hillary Clinton would have a snowball's chance in Hell of being elected President in 2008.

As long as Rove is alive...as long as Limbaugh and Hannity have the slightest shred of dominance in right-wing talk radio...as long as the state of Texas is filled with asshole billionaires willing to write a check at the drop of a ten-gallon hat to fund the "Swift Boat Veterans" smear campaign designed to BRING HILLARY DOWN...

...she WILL be brought down. These people have no scruples. All that matters is winning. The Democratic Party has not developed the same bloodlust, the same "win no matter what the cost or damage" attitude, because many in the party find it DISTASTEFUL and DIRTY. Meanwhile, Karl Rove sits in his office thinking of new ways to wipe his fat ass with the Democratic Party.

We need a candidate who can take back the White House.

[Dave Sund]

3. Damn right

I don't think they quite get it... The relentless assault on Clinton will just allow us to get a good candidate to win.