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From The Hill
By Sam Youngman
January 16, 2008
Karl Rove told a group of state Republican officials Wednesday that while the GOP primaries "are far from over," each of the candidates can beat the top two Democrats ...
On Clinton, Rove said the senator talks about fiscal responsibility but has introduced "$800 billion in new spending and the campaign is less than half over."
Rove said that "the woman" wants to repeal all of Bush's tax cuts, and that she can be targeted for voting against "troop funding" in the form of her votes against the Iraq war supplementals.
Specifically, Rove hit Clinton for what could have been"You know, Sen. Clinton [has] got a problem with giving straight answers in this campaign," Rove said. "I thought that was an incredible moment. In the course of 15 minutes, I counted her giving about four different answers."
her worst campaign moment last year, when she had trouble answering a question
about driver's licenses for illegal immigrants at the Democratic debate in
Philadelphia.
The Bush confidant also trotted out one of the lines of attack the RNC has already been working feverishly against Clinton, questioning why she and former President Bill Clinton will not release records from their time in the White House. ...
Rove made it clear that most Republican attacks on Obama would focus on his "accomplishments and experience." ...
Rove added that Obama has only passed one piece of
legislation during his time in the U.S. Senate, and during his time in Illinois
state Senate, Obama had "an unusual habit" of voting "present" instead of yes or
no.
Rove also said that nonpartisan ratings show that Obama is more liberal than Clinton, which he said is "pretty hard to do."
Time and again, however, Rove returned to the trump card he used in his successfully executed 2002 and 2004 elections, saying that neither Obama nor Clinton is prepared to protect the country from terrorists. ...
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