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Thursday July 6, 2000; 4:15 PM EDT
Lazio Disavows Winning Strategy
U.S. Senate candidate Rick Lazio says he isn't disavowing
fund-raising letters sent out under his name that proclaim,
"Hillary Clinton and her husband have embarrassed our country and
disgraced their powerful posts."
But the Long Island Republican sure doesn't sound too comfortable
with the sentiment. Too bad, because that's just the strategy he
needs to beat Hillary Clinton at her own game.
"She believes elective office is something she deserves and is
owed and should anyone question her and her husband's integrity,
she lashes out with ferocity at her accusers," continues the
Lazio appeal for campaign cash, in another spot-on observation
about the most corrupt power couple ever to hit D.C.
So if Lazio's fund-raisers think it's a good idea to criticize
Mrs. Clinton on her weakest point - the hair-raising eight years
of wall-to-wall White House scandal the media calls the Clinton
presidency - then why did the candidate sound so embarrassed on
Wednesday about hitting the bulls-eye for the first time in
weeks?
"That's not part of our media campaign," Hillary's challenger
protested to reporters. "That's not what I'm talking about on the
stump. ... And frankly these letters are written, you know, not
by me. I'm not disavowing it, but they're not written by me."
If that's not a disavowal, it'll do just fine until the real
thing comes along.
As NewsMax.com's John LeBoutillier pointed out last week, it
looks like Rick Lazio still can't tear himself away from the Bob
Dole-George Bush Sr. political playbook, a "walking on eggshells"
campaign strategy that has enabled the Clintons to steamroller
one intimidated Republican after another.
In 1996 GOP presidential hopeful Dole, frustrated that the
Clintons' corruption had yet to catch up with them, roamed the
countryside asking every voter who crossed his path, "Where's the
outrage?" But Dole never explained just what there was to be
outraged about.
In fact, by the end of the campaign the hapless ex-Senate
Majority Leader was actually promising reporters that he wouldn't
bring up the Paula Jones case, which three years later turned
Bill Clinton into the first elected president to be impeached in
U.S. history.
Dole's would-be partner Jack Kemp seemed even more pathetic,
when during his final vice presidential debate he warmly thanked
Al Gore after the Veep praised him for not engaging in
"mudslinging" (i.e., telling the truth about the Clintons).
Of course, Gore won that debate hands down.
Ditto George W.'s dad, who could have stopped the Clintons dead
in their tracks had he allowed Lee Atwater's protege Mary Matalin
to follow the leads dumped in her lap in 1992.
After the Clinton campaign unabashedly announced it had a "bimbo
eruption" problem, Matalin collected a dossier full of
documentation on women linked to Clinton who had been threatened
into silence. But the Bush campaign wasn't interested.
Instead Matalin was practically fired for engaging in what
Bush's political wisemen felt were dirty campaign tactics, saving
her job only by apologizing for trying to get the truth out.
It doesn't take a political rocket scientist to figure out what
would have happened had Matalin been able to coax Paula Jones,
Juanita Broaddrick or any of the other Clinton sex assault
victims to go public before the November vote.
The Bush team got a taste of truly dirty campaign tactics four
days before the election, when pro-Clinton prosecutors in
Lawrence Walsh's office indicted Casper Weinberger on Iran Contra
charges.
The Weinberger indictment reversed Bush's momentum in the polls
and likely cost him re-election.
And that's how it goes in every contest where Clinton audacity is
met by GOP timidity. Yet no matter how many times that lesson is
taught, the GOP seems condemned to repeat history.
When media savants warn that voters will react badly if Lazio
attacks the Clintons for their scandals, it's because the 89
percent pro-Clinton press corps is afraid the topic might
actually resonate with the voters, thereby costing their
candidate the election.
Otherwise journalists would be just as upset when Hillary pulls a
stunt like having her allies at the Securities and Exchange
Commission launch a probe into Lazio's investments, an outrageous
development that's prompted hardly a whimper of protest from the
press.
Remember the outrage of the punditocracy when a Buffalo talk
radio host dared to question Mrs. Clinton earlier this year about
her amply documented affair with the late Vincent Foster. Three
months later the same media pack were hunting down every rumor
they could get their hands on about Rudy Giuliani (Hillary's
then-opponent) and his alleged philandering.
In fact, the Clinton scandals do resonate with the voters in New
York, with 33 percent of those who don't like Hillary telling a
Marist College survey last month that their number one complaint
was her lack of integrity. Another 22 percent said they didn't
like the way she handled her marriage.
If Rick Lazio falls into the trap of letting the press decide
what campaign issues are "legitimate." guess whose private life
and personal peccadillos will be smeared all the front pages from
now until November.
And guess who will be the New York's next U.S. Senator.
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