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CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS
April 14, 2004
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KERRY'S HOME-GROWN BA'ATH PARTY
"Campaign 2004 turns extreme in Florida with the placement of a newspaper ad
calling for physical retribution against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld!
'We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say 'This is one of our bad
days,' and pull the trigger,' the ad reads. The call-to-arms fundraising ad,
placed by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club in the current issue of the GABBER,
a local St. Petersburg paper, asks readers to make an urgent donation to the
John Kerry campaign."
- The Drudge Report, 4/13/04
TIME TO MOVE ON
"George Bush had been in office less than a year when confronted with Sept. 11,
and the unwisdom of succumbing to the clamor of victim families for a premature
investigation should now be clear to all. The commission predictably has
degenerated into a partisan spectacle in the middle of a presidential year, as
well as becoming incoherently and unproductively entangled in current policy
controversies, notably Iraq.
"...But amid the millions of words poured forth in the investigation, two
important ones have not been spoken. Nobody has yet politely told the victim
families that it's time to 'move on.' One way or another, approximately 43,000
Americans have died by violence since Sept. 11, 2001, each family suffering the
pain of unexpected loss. Yet the vast majority have not been gratified by
endless national attention. There needs to be some limit to the sympathy claimed
by one unexceptional set of survivors, so the country can proceed about its
business."
- Holman W. Jenkins Jr., "Political Diary," 4/13/04
THIS IS CNN
"If CNN's cameras and correspondents had been positioned at Omaha Beach on June
6, the pressure on FDR and Winston Churchill to negotiate a cease-fire by
nightfall, 'to give peace a chance,' would have been irresistible."
- Wesley Pruden, "Pruden On Politics," 4/13/04
WHAT'S AT STAKE: THE BIG PICTURE
"We are locked in a historic struggle in Iraq. On its outcome hangs more than
the fate of the Iraqi people. Were we to fail, which we will not, it is more
than 'the power of America' that would be defeated. The hope of freedom and
religious tolerance in Iraq would be snuffed out. Dictators would rejoice;
fanatics and terrorists would be triumphant. Every nascent strand of moderate
Arab opinion, knowing full well that the future should not belong to
fundamentalist religion, would be set back in bitter disappointment."
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the London Guardian last weekend
LOONY ROONEY
"60 Minutes' Andy Rooney, supreme Bush-hater and left-wing shill, has written a
column where he has actually said that our fighting men and women in Iraq are
not heroes. Rather, he attempts and fails to make the case that somehow our
brave soldiers are regular people who just joined the military because they
couldn't get any other job, and then just went where they were told. And in the
ultimate insult, he says that those who joined the military are victims and not
heroes. Isn't that great? Is Rooney intentionally trying to demoralize our men
and women in uniform by telling them that they're really nothing special after
all? Nice going, Andy."
- Talk-show host Neal Boortz
DRAFTING FEAR
"Presidential candidate Ralph Nader this weekend warned his constituents that a
military draft is pending, and asked younger voters to prepare. . . . Another
third-party candidate, Libertarian Aaron Russo, has joined Mr. Nader in warning
Americans that a draft is a real possibility, despite denials from all quarters
of the Bush administration. . . . It would take legislative action by Congress
to reinstate the draft, which was ended in 1973, about two months before the
last U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam."
- Washington Times, 4/13/04
NOT FORGETTING THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS
"There are about 8,100 America GIs still missing in action in North Korea and
since 1996 operations have been underway to identify the remains of some of
them. So far, 180 American soldiers have been recovered. Now the good news: The
Defense Department announced recently that for the first time in these efforts,
equipment and supplies have been allowed to flow to U.S. recovery teams working
north of the DMZ.
"Also for the first time since 1999, recovery teams will be allowed to bring any
remains they discover back home with them after each search operation. Five
operations have been scheduled for this year -- in Unsan County and near the
Chosin Reservoir, both sites of major battles and heavy American losses. For all
the nuclear Armageddon talk, it's nice to see that North Korean officials have
quietly stepped up their co-operation in recovering America soldiers. These men
deserve a trip home."
-Brendan Miniter, Political Diary, 4/13/04
NO TAX HIKE WITHOUT A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE
"In the Virginia General Assembly, the bipartisan scheme by Gov. Mark Warner (D)
and the state Senate Republicans to raise taxes in the Old Dominion state could
be passed into law in the weeks ahead. When antitax Republicans argued any tax
hike should be approved by a vote of the people, the governor pouted that this
would 'turn Virginia into California.'
"Mr. Warner, the pro-tax Republicans and the liberal media are all deadset
against giving the voters the right to choose on taxes. Mr. Warner is no fool.
He knows a ballot initiative on his tax-increasing revenue grab would be soundly
defeated. How do we know this? Because tax initiatives have been trounced every
time and everywhere voters have had a say.
"This is why Republicans should stick to their guns: No tax increase without
voter approval."
- Steve Moore, Club for Growth, 4/13/04
OOPS
"Jamiel Terry, the 24-year-old adopted son of Randall A. Terry, militant
abortion protester and opponent of same-sex 'marriage,' acknowledges he is a
homosexual in the May issue of Out magazine, slated to reach newsstands April
20."
- Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 4/13/04
OK, IF YOU INSIST...
"PLeazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz don't let up on (Nathan) Tabor. This is
more fun than I've had in a long time...and I don't even live in his state!"
- News & Views reader "Sheri"
SOME CONSERVATIVE
"(Nathan Tabor) doesn't believe in anything except narcissism. He never voted
for (Sen. Jesse) Helms and never voted against (Bill) Clinton."
- North Carolina 5 congressional candidate Vernon Robinson, Washington Times,
4/13/04
TABOR CAUGHT IN ANOTHER WHOPPER
"Chuck: I have just learned of your Web site about Nathan Tabor and read your
recent posting regarding Nathan's lying about an endorsement from the College
Republicans. I just finished a two-year term as Chairman of the N.C. Federation
of College Republicans on April 3 and assure you that the College Republicans
have made no such endorsement of Nathan Tabor.
"It has and always will be our policy to stay out of contested primary races. .
. . (I was) present at Mr. Tabor's event and heard no such endorsement ever
uttered by our National Co-Chair, Corrine Scharz. Additionally, I know that most
of the CRs were lured into this event by the free Pizza Hut food and not
necessarily for any sort of inspiring speech by Mr. Tabor."
- Michael McKnight, Immediate Past Chairman, N.C. Federation of College
Republicans, 4/13/04 (Read Mr. McKnight's full letter on the "Tabor Tales" page
at www.tabortales.com)
THE SOUTHERN TED KENNEDY
"Chuck: Just beginning to follow the Nathan Tabor discussions and am appalled
that someone of this (lack of) caliber has any chance of getting elected in NC.
Beginning to sound like a Southern Ted Kennedy !!! Hopefully, the people of the
5th District are way smarter than the good people of Massachusetts. Keep 'em
coming."
- Richard Stevens, Madison, NC
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