Clinton needs more dough to fight back

[babylonsister]

Campaign call reveals Clinton debate concern
By Sam Youngman
November 01, 2007

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.

Mark Penn, Clinton’s senior strategist and pollster, and Jonathan Mantz, the campaign’s finance director, told the supporters on the call, which The Hill listened to in its entirety, that they expect attacks from Clinton’s rivals to continue, and she will need the financial resources to deflect their attacks.

Clinton came under withering assault in the Philadelphia debate, and some supporters on the call agreed with analysts that she stumbled.

“I wouldn’t say she lost her cool,” one caller said. “But I would say she lost her footing.”

The caller addded that Clinton’s response to questions about records from her time in the White House that have been sealed by the National Archives “made me roll my eyes.”

more...

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/campaign-call-reveals-clinton-debate-concern-2007-11-01.html

[Deja Q]

1. Thanks to her "illegal snafu", the only footing she's lost is

her future as a Hollywood actress.

Maybe it was being caught up in the limelight. But she's done the doublespeak on a couple other things as well... when will she double-talk on the remaining things I agree with her on?

[rinsd]

2. This is something new?

Turning attacks on a campaign into a fundraising effort is not something new or even surprising.

Dean did it with the bat and Obama just did it in response to Hillary's 3rd Q fundraising.

[babylonsister]

6. I never said it was, just posting a story for your reading pleasure.

:hi:

[rinsd]

7. Sorry...its been a hostile environ today....

[JeffR]

3. dough is the least of the Senator's worries, IMO

[DURHAM D]

4. Thanks for posting -

the entire article is worth a read.

It also reminded me I need to get in my 4th quarter donation to Hil.

[calteacherguy]

5. That was terrible what she said about the National Archives records.

The BS about it not being under her control AS PRESIDENT EVEN just made me want to puke. I supported her until then. That was the moment I saw the difference.

[DURHAM D]

8. Are you joking??? n/t

[emilyg]

10. You again? And again.....

[illinoisprogressive]

9. Hillary also has Drudge helping by portraying her as the victim...again!

If she wants to be president she better learn that playing the victim is not a strong portrait.

[Nedsdag]

11. If she wants to dish it,

she has to learn how to take it.