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CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS
March 16, 2004
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A REAL LADIES MAN
"No wonder (John Kerry's) so popular with the ladies. John Edwards may have been
cute, but Kerry has more positions than the Kama Sutra."
- James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com, 3/15/04
THE PAIN IN SPAIN IS MAINLY THE TERRORISTS' GAIN
"Clearly the terrorists prefer national leaders who will appease them rather
than leaders who will try to locate them and kill them. This would mean that the
terrorists would much rather see John sKerry win in the United States than
President Bush. I know that's a tough pill to swallow for the Democrats ... but
the fact is that in this presidential election they are clearly on the same side
as the terrorists. Saying it ain't so won't work. You're just going to have to
find a way to accept it and live with it."
- Talk-show host Neal Boortz
PUT UP OR SHUT UP
"Last Monday in Florida, (John Kerry) told reporters that, 'I've met with
foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly. But, boy, they look at
you and say: 'You've got to win this. You've got to beat this guy. We need a new
policy.' Things like that.' This sure sounds like news worth pursuing. Who are
these foreign leaders, and what is Mr. Kerry privately saying that makes them so
enthusiastic about his candidacy? . . . (H)aving raised the point, he ought to
tell the American people precisely who these foreign leaders are and why they
want him to win."
- "Review & Outlook," Wall Street Journal, 3/15/04
KERRY UNGLUED
"The town meeting (in Bethlehem, PA) was contentious at times, with 52-year-old
Cedric Brown repeatedly pressing the candidate to name the foreign leaders whom
Kerry has said are backing his campaign. 'I'm not going to betray a private
conversation with anybody,' Kerry said. As the crowd of several hundred people
began to mutter and boo, Kerry said, 'That's none of your business.' "
- Associated Press, 3/14/04
"HER"?
"Asked who would make good vice presidential material, (Hillary Clinton) refused
to answer, saying it was 'a personal choice' for Kerry. 'It's about
qualifications and chemistry. I am just going to let Sen. Kerry make that
decision on her own,' she said."
- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 3/14/04
NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES
"It's too bad for the Democrats that Kerry already has the nomination sewed up.
They rushed the process, and now they've wound up with a lemon and no return
policy. I guess they can always vote for Nader. By the way ... a great line from
the Bush camp over the weekend. sKerry, as you know, is challenging Bush to a
series of monthly debates leading to the election. Bush officials said that
perhaps it might be a good idea for Kerry to finish debating himself before he
tries to take on the president."
- Talk-show host Neal Boortz
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THE SPY WHO LOVED DEMOCRATS
"Anyone who wants to understand why the media are held in such low regard by the
public - in polls of the most respected professions we usually come somewhere
between Nigerian e-mail scammers and serial pedophiles - should consider the
following headline from an Associated Press story in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer last week: 'Accused spy is cousin of Bush staffer.'
"The accused person is Susan Lindauer, charged with working for Saddam's
intelligence agency. . . . Before she allegedly became an Iraqi agent, Miss
Lindauer spent a decade in Washington working for four members of Congress,
Peter DeFazio, Ron Wyden, Carol Moseley Braun and Zoe Lofgren. What do these
four legislators have in common? Answer: They all have a 'D' after their names.
But to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's headline writer the salient fact about
Miss Lindauer is not her 10 years of work for the Democratic Party but the
amazing revelation she is a second cousin of Bush chief of staff Andrew Card."
- Columnist Mark Steyn
WE'LL DRIVE OFF THAT BRIDGE WHEN WE COME TO IT
"'Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Saturday the Bush administration has a 'widening
credibility gap' between what it tells the American people and the facts,' the
Associated Press reports. Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment."
- James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com, 3/15/04
MOTHER HENS SENSE DANGER
"President Bush's mother is worried that his re-election bid could end up like
his father's losing effort, Time magazine reports. Barbara Bush 'does not want
to see her family go through a '92 thing again,' a Bush campaign official told
the magazine. Mr. Bush's wife, Laura, and his mother are increasingly
questioning the agility and management of the current president's campaign, Time
said, quoting two 'well-placed sources.' "
- Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 3/15/04
AMNESTY PROPOSAL DEAD IN THE WATER
"President George W. Bush announced at a festive White House ceremony his
initiative to offer guest-worker visas to millions of undocumented workers, the
proposal lies buried on Capitol Hill -- and with it, perhaps, his hopes for more
Hispanic votes. The plan has become a lightning rod both for conservative
Republicans, who lament that it would reward lawbreaking foreigners, and for
Democrats, who complain it wouldn't go far enough to help hard-working
immigrants become Americans. But it also is a victim of presidential
inattention, as even some allies contend.
"...Republicans say the White House underestimated the issue's unpopularity
among conservatives. 'You should never, ever, ever reward people for breaking
the law,' Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado says. 'And no matter how many
times the president says it's not amnesty, that's exactly what it is.' Only
record federal spending has riled grass-roots activists more, Republicans say."
- Wall Street Journal columnist Jackie Calmes
THE GLUE THAT HOLDS THE RIGHT TOGETHER
"Low taxes are the central linchpin of conservatism. It's possible to disagree
about abortion, gay rights or the proper level of military spending, but we
can't disagree about our one unifying message as conservatives."
- Steve Moore, president of Club for Growth
SIZE MATTERS
"When I listen to liberals and journalists complain about Bush's truly
outrageous runaway spending, they make it sound as if runaway spending would be
fine if we had a balanced budget. I don't want a huge federal government because
I don't want a huge federal government, not because we're borrowing too much
money."
- Columnist Jonah Goldberg
STAGE SET FOR POST OFFICE OVERHAUL
"The Senate approved an amendment during debate on its fiscal year 2005 budget
last week to set aside funds to enact comprehensive postal reform legislation.
Sponsored by Governmental Affairs Committee chair Susan Collins, R-ME, and Sen.
Tom Carper, D-DE, the amendment would establish a reserve fund to be used in
bringing the bill to the Senate floor. 'This amendment puts the Senate on
notice that we intend to move a postal reform bill this year,' Collins said."
- DM News, 3/15/04
INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING...NOT
"A scientist dubbed the 'Safeway poisoner' and jailed for trying to poison his
wife has been employed by a British university to lecture students on ethics,
the institution said on Thursday. Paul Agutter served seven years of a 12-year
sentence for attempted murder after he laced his wife's gin and tonic with
deadly nightshade in 1994 and then tried to cover his tracks by spiking drinks
in a Safeway supermarket."
- Reuters, 3/12/04
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