Hillary, Part 2

Denny Hatch wrote a follow-up to his comments on Hillary Clinton's suggestion that, as president, she would to "take [the oil companies'] profits" and use them for her own pet projects.

His comments came in the midst of an article about the power of fear to motivate people.

Who can forget the gaffe that may have cost John Kerry the presidency when he said the following about the senate vote on the Iraq War, "I voted for it before I voted against it." The Republicans replayed that line over and over again with lethal effect, scaring the voters into believing Kerry was a flip-flopper and therefore a danger. When Kerry refused to immediately dispute the Swift Boaters' charges that his Vietnam medals were not earned, voters perceived that maybe those allegations were true and feared that Kerry was a liar and a coward that could not be trusted to support our troops in Iraq.

The 2004 presidential election was won on voter fear of John Kerry.

Hillary Clinton is in for the same treatment—the result of the 20-second gaffe at the Democratic National Committee winter meeting in Washington early in February—that I mentioned in last week's edition of this e-zine.

Here is the fear-based, 30-second spot I would run were I managing the campaign of Barack Obama or Rudolph Giuliani:

[SIGN ACROSS TOP OF SCREEN THROUGHOUT THE 30-SECOND SPOT]

Should Hillary Clinton Be President?

[ON SMALL TV SCREEN INSET, SENATOR CLINTON SPEAKS TO DNC. USE THE JERKY, PRIMITIVE YouTube.com VERSION TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION IT WAS A HIDDEN CAMERA CAPTURING AN OFF-THE-RECORD SPEECH]

The other day, the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund . . .

[SOUND FADES TO SILENCE]

[ON SCREEN, WE SEE CLINTON CONTINUING TO SPEAK. NO SOUND]

[GIULIANI VOICE OVER]

In June 2005, the Supreme Court said that the government could seize your home and turn it into condos in order to raise more tax money.

Now Hillary Clinton wants to seize business profits. What will Hillary try to seize next? Your investments? Your savings? Your bank account? Your salary?

This is more than scary. It's un-American.

I'm Rudy Giuliani and I approved this message.

[LOGO]
GIULIANI IN '08

Beware your fears! Don't let them push you into doing something foolish. [I say this by way of encouragement to me!]