Wealthy Texans paying to derail Hillary Clinton ("Stop Her Now")

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/120406dntswprezmoney.34a7139.html

A Dallas businessman is helping bankroll an effort to derail Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential hopes, and he says he plans to tap other big-money Texans in the cause.

Richard Collins has put at least $80,000 into a group called Stop Her Now, which launched a new Web site last week targeting the possible frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

"We expect to raise millions of dollars, a lot of it from online people and a lot of it from wealthy, conservative donors from around the country that want to keep Hillary Clinton from being elected president," Mr. Collins said.

"We're going to define Hillary as an ambitious, calculating, tough political operator who is trying to define herself as a centrist Democrat when, in fact, she's an ultraliberal Democrat," said Mr. Collins, who owns a newspaper group with publications in Cedar Hill, Duncanville, DeSoto, Lancaster and Grand Prairie.

[Richardo]

1. Look for big bucks from Bob Perry

That Swiftboat-financing assbite.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. LOL! Their fears will drive them to the poor house!

:rofl:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I've been toying with this fantasy since right after the 2004 election. They all gather up and attack Hillary, spending millions and millions of their ill gotten gains, then near the end she removes herself from the race with a charming smile and tells them all, "got you, you bigoted suckers."

[gratuitous]

3. Scared of grrrls, Mr. Collins?

Sure sounds that way, doesn't it? And after all, what could a second President Clinton do that would be any worse than the second President Bush? On behalf of the rest of America, which is sick and tired of Republican Texas' brand of politics and governance, may I humbly suggest you shut the fuck up, Mr. Collins?

[rainbow4321]

9. Bumper Sticker: "Always takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush"

Saw it somewhere on the 'net the other day

:evilgrin:

[pnwmom]

31. LOL! n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. Unbelievable. These people are so over the top

Their hatred is so obsessive. Needless to say, she could be the most "conservative" candidate the Dems may run in the 08 primaries.

I keep telling my Bushbot coworkers this, and of course, they say they don't believe it. It is simply pure, misogynistic hatred on their part. Ask why they hate Senator Clinton, and all they can say is that she is a "bitch" and "socialist" without knowing what her true positions are.

By the way, I am not a supporter of Senator Clinton for president.

[OKNancy]

5. LOL - I thought the Republicans wanted Hillary Clinton as the Democratic

nominee.

Targeting her so early seems to go against the talkinghead-Repubs line of the week ( month/year)

Looks like they are pretty worried.

[LiberalEsto]

7. Does that mean rethugs are NOT "ambitious, calculating...

tough political operator" types?

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

8. Where do I donate?

JUST KIDDING.

[wtmusic]

20. You and that freeky frog of yours

beat me to it!

[Maddy McCall]

21. LOL

:hi:

[Zorra]

10. What if Hillary is the Dem minesweeper, a decoy to take GOP

heat off of the potential Dem nominee?

She's so perfect for the job.

[Clark2008]

33. Now THAT would be a coup.

Can we talk her into it?

:7

[Strelnikov_]

11. "In Fact, She's An Ultraliberal Democrat"

Wow, an ULTRALIBERAL.

Keep talking like that, I may have to take another look at her.

[rainbow4321]

13. Taking a look at their website is good for a belly laugh

"While serving as First Lady of Arkansas for twelve years, Hillary Clinton worked as an attorney for Arkansas corporations such as Wal-Mart"


Hey, asswipes, talk to us when she bilks thousands of employees out of their retirement nestegg, OK???



Edited to include:
Ahem...then go back to the DMN article and take a peek at one of the repuke donors

2004
Donor: Alice Walton, Mineral Wells rancher and Wal-Mart heiress

Amount: $2.6 million

Purpose: Progress for America Fund, which sponsored a television ad showing images of Osama bin Laden and other terrorists as an announcer asked: "Would you trust Kerry against these fanatic killers?"

[Lurking Dem]

14. LOL!

I'm wondering what that would make ME? Hell, I'm a centrist and I'm to the left of Hillary.

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. Yeah, an "ultraliberal"

Idiots! She will probably be our most conservative person running for the nomination.

It simply boils down to pure misogyny.

[pnwmom]

29. Conservative? Not really. Progressive Punch's evaluation of her voting record

put her as 10th most progressive in the Senate.

www.progressivepunch.com

[wtmusic]

22. In fact, she's not liberal enough

but who cares about facts?

[pnwmom]

32. In fact, only Obama's record is more liberal than her's --

if you're comparing Senators who are likely Presidential contenders.

Progressive Punch puts his voting record in 8th place for his positions on progressive issues; Clinton is in 10 place.

Others:

Feingold, 19th
Kerry, 23
Biden 25
Bayh 35

[PunkPop]

12. One more idle rich Republican prick

"Richard H. Collins is a Dallas native and sixth generation of a well-known Texas family active in commerce, politics and civic matters."

<snip>

"He serves on the Governors Business Council, as President of the Today Foundation, Chairman of Associated Texans Against Crime (ATAC), Founder of the Children's Education Fund of Dallas (CEF) and as the Director of the Collins Family Foundation. He serves as Chairman of DALENPAC (Dallas Entrepreneurial Political Action Committee) and is active in the Republican Party."


http://www.richardhcollins.com/index.html

Check out the links page. None of his so-called "philanthropic" ventures even have working links. Probably just places to hide his profits from the IRS.

Such an upstanding citizen - wasting millions of dollars to slime a perfectly harmless, run-of-the-mill Democratic politician. Maybe he ought to be spending more on his Today Foundation and they could actually have an operational website.

[wisteria]

16. Oh come on, they want her to run! n/t

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[xchrom]

17. ti might not want hillary for prez -- but i hae these

swiftboating tapeworms even more.
these are the kind of folk -- along with the swiftboaters that need to be actively confronted by liberals.

everything about these slimey parasites should be up for ridicule and anything else that can be thrown at them.

[IWantAChange]

18. If they believe Dubyha has been good for the country may I suggest

they take some of their money and seek out serious care for their obvious mental disorders?

[Cass]

19. Just imagine the good these jackasses could for humanity do with all that money.

This kind of mentality sickens me. They will no doubt swiftboat her with a bunch of BS lies and it will be very very ugly.

The wingnuts are absolutely terrified of this woman in a completely irrational way. You would think she eats frigging babies for lunch for crying out loud.

[OzarkDem]

23. Putting their tax cuts to use, I see

Good thing all of us middle class taxpayers are subsidizing this kind of stimulus for the economy. I'm sure all our hard earned tax dollars will help these cretins create lots of new jobs.


:sarcasm:

[DoBotherMe]

24. Do Americans want Texas to choose

the candidates? Maybe that's the way this move should be labeled. Let's brand the American fascists Texas Conservatives (as in Massachusetts Liberal). D ; )

[depakid]

38. Texas Reactionaries and fundamentalists

would be more accurate. These folks can't simple concentrate on their own messed up state, which ranks near the bottom on most every major measure. Nope, they take their money, their fundamentalism, anti-tax lunacy and their corrupt business practices and try to cram them down everyone else's throats.

[rainbow4321]

40. They won't get much $upport from Dallas or Austin

She'd probably clean the floor$ with them in those 2 cities alone..Dallas County just fired all of their repuke judges and elected all Dems. Austin is that beautiful blue spot in the middle of TX red..where people walking down the street wear T shirts that simply say "Fuck Bush".
Outside of Highland Park where the zillionaires (in Dallas) these fools will be hard pressed to find much support. Probably why they are pushing the "online" request for donations.

[Sapphire Blue]

25. Someone on DU was asking DUers to sign a petition asking the Senator not to run.

[pnwmom]

30. How depressing.

[Sapphire Blue]

34. It's on the 'greatest' page.

So much for the 'greatest' page.

[pnwmom]

35. Even worse!

I'd love to know what the gender breakdown is among the signers.

[wyldwolf]

27. .. Is this a front group of Arianna Huffington and various DUers?

[pnwmom]

28. "Ambitious," "calculating," and "tough"? And ultra-liberal, too?

Be still my heart. She sounds like a Democrat's dream.

[Kelly Rupert]

36. If she was one-tenth the determined liberal they say she is,

I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.

[MODemocrat]

37. It's plain to see they'd rather have yet another Idiot in the Whitehouse

Bring it on you big, bad, rich, boys. I'm sure it won't be that tough to find another imbecile in
your State to crown president.

Lest you forget; Hillary won't take your crap, for she has the BIG DOG right by her side.

[asthmaticeog]

39. Pffft, I friggin' WISH she were an ultraliberal. nt

[election_2004]

41. I support the cause, but not Collins's motives

He's probably a batshit crazy Sam Brownback supporter.