How NedHeads Can Use The Clinton Visit

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 12:36 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 12:36

Two things, folks, to bear in mind about Bill Clinton's planned visit next Monday (07/24) to stump for Holy Joe:

1) BOTH BILL AND HILLARY HAVE ALREADY PROMISED TO BACK WHOEVER WINS THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN CONNECTICUT. Period. (Sorry for the shout, but some people seem to have forgotten this.)

2) We have plenty of time, if we act NOW, to set things up so that Holy Joe will rue the day he invited Bill Clinton to stump for him. Follow me past the jump to find out how.

Here's how we can judo-leverage Clinton against Lieberman:

Whenever any opportunity arises to do so publicly -- on a radio call-in show, via a letter to the editor, at a meet/greet with the cameras running, etc. -- make a point of saying something along these lines:

a) "Gee, it's so good of President Clinton to be so forgiving of the guy who enabled the out-of-control Republican Congress to put the country through the three-year hell of a bogus impeachment crisis."

OR:

b) (the direct approach) "How can you be so nice to the guy who put you and us through three years of hell on toast?!?"

If we make sure the Connecticut airwaves and newspapers are filled with reminders of how Lieberman screwed the Clintons, then suddenly Holy Joe won't be so happy that Bill's putting in an appearance. We can change the media frame from "Lieberman's opponents are all anti-war people and that's their sole issue" to "Lieberman has a history of self-interested backstabbing".

To start things off, how 'bout writing a letter to the folks at the Hartford Courant complete with reminders of How Holy Joe Backstabbed The Clintons? Either click here, or use letters@courant.com. If everybody who complained about the Clinton visit did this -- and in time to fill the Letters sections of the Sunday and Monday editions of the Courant -- then that'll go a LONG way towards using the Clinton visit as a judo move on Holy Joe.

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