Hillary: Ban All 527's, Laura Wrong to Defend Swiftvets
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she would support "a truce" that would ban all further broadcasts of political ads funded by 527 groups for the duration of the presidential campaign.
The move that would put an end to commercials by the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth as well as millions of dollars in campaign commercials by Democratic groups like MoveOn.org, America Coming Together and the Media Fund, run by Sen. Clinton's former top aide, Harold Ickes.
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The top New York Democrat was asked by NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, "Why not have, in effect, a truce, and pull all 527 ads down on both sides?"
Sen. Clinton replied without hesitation, "I'd be for that."
But in the next breath she added, "I don't think you'd get agreement on that, because there's too much intensity and too much money [involved]."
Calling ads by the Swiftvets "smears" and an attempt at "character assassination," Mrs. Clinton attacked First Lady Laura Bush for defending the 527 group in an interview with Time Magazine released Sunday.
"Oh, I think [Mrs. Bush's defense] is unfortunate, because [the Swiftvet ads] are not only unfair, they're flat-out wrong," she told ABC's "This Week." "Even the president has regretted that they're being used in this way."
But after citing President Bush's condemnation of all 527 ads, she accused him of secretly engineering the Swiftvet campaign, telling "This Week," "certainly people close to his campaign have been involved in them. If you find a turtle on a fence post, you know, it didn't get there by accident."
Asked about the Swiftvet ads, Mrs. Bush had told Time, "Do I think they're unfair? Not really. There have been millions of terrible ads against my husband."
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