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...effectively ended any hope that the Senate might pass legislation speeding up the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But the ad, and the reaction to it, was also significant for the way it gave us a preview of what a general election race between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani might look like...
...appeared at a convenient moment for the Giuliani campaign. For the first time since the former New York mayor entered the G.O.P. race in early February, his status as his party's front-runner in national polls had begun to slip. The logic against a Giuliani victory - that he's too out of step with the Republican rank and file on social issues to win the nomination - seemed to be taking hold just as Fred Thompson officially entered the race. Giuliani needed to change the dynamic of the campaign, to get G.O.P. primary voters to focus on his general electability...
MoveOn gave Giuliani precisely the distraction he was looking for. Other Republicans railed against the organization's ad, but Giuliani went further. He linked it to Hillary Clinton, calling her criticism of Gen. Petraeus' Senate testimony "political venom" and chastising her for refusing to condemn MoveOn. Then the Giuliani campaign bought its own full-page ad in the Times, praising Petraeus and lacerating MoveOn and Clinton. "Who should America listen to," the ad asked, "a decorated soldier's commitment to defending America, or Hillary Clinton's commitment to defending MoveOn.org...
Just like that, the campaign story of the week was Rudy vs. Hillary. Coverage of the rest of the G.O.P. field faded away as the media chronicled Giuliani's attacks on Hillary, MoveOn and liberals in general. "I have to hand it to the Giuliani people; that was a brilliant move," says a Democratic strategist with ties to the Clinton campaign...
...show on the campaign trail. "It is unacceptable for [Ahmadinejad], who refuses to renounce and end his own country's support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation's history," said Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani - who was New York City mayor at the time of the attacks - thundered: "This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden's son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons...