Hillary offers her services as a fund-raiser to Ned Lamont.

[rodeodance]

http://edwardcopeland.blogspot.com/2006/08/campaign-roundup_26.html





........On the other side of the Connecticut Senate race, Hillary offers her services as a fund-raiser to Ned Lamont.

By JENNIFER MEDINA
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 25 — In a private meeting at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home on Friday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton offered to help Ned Lamont in his battle to unseat Senator Joseph I. Lieberman by sponsoring a fund-raiser, campaigning by his side and lending him one of her top political strategists.
That strategist, Howard Wolfson, said Mrs. Clinton wanted to throw her considerable political weight behind Mr. Lamont because the national Republican Party “is clearly invested in Ned Lamont’s defeat.”
“I think they are going to do what they can to see him defeated,” Mr. Wolfson said, adding that he was particularly concerned with “Bush-Cheney talking points.”
“They are going to attack him in the way Republicans do,” he said, “and he obviously needs to be and is going to be prepared.”

[Stinky The Clown]

1. This is all good ..... but .......

..... she and her husband need to come out clearly in opposition to the self-selected 3rd party candidate who is also in that race.

[MADem]

2. WOW....odds are even she'll open her war chest, which is substantial

as well, especially if he is making good progress and the GOP attacks get vicious.

This is smart on two levels--it's a way to wage a proxy fight against GOP smears, a practice round, if you will. If she runs, she's gonna get the same treatment times a thousand.

Also, it positions her closer to someone who is to her left on the war issue. Again helpful if she runs.

I'm not totally convinced she is going to, but time will tell.

[CTyankee]

3. I think she's smart

She knows that a new wind is blowing across the land. I doubt if she'd get on a sinking ship. (Pardon the mixed metaphors!)