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*********************************** >From Nancy Pelosi's Hometown "Writing on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate.com Web site, 'conservative activist' Adam Sparks notes that San Francisco is spending $13,500 on today's Veterans Day parade. That's less than it spends on the parades for the Brazilian holiday Carnival ($113,000), the Juneteenth Festival ($22,000) and even Samoan Flag Day ($15,000). Memorial Day gets only $5,500, which at least is more than the Dyke March's $4,800." - Best of the Web, 11/11/02 ********************************** In Your Heart You Know He's (Still) Right Join the "next generation of Goldwater Conservatives" by joining the Goldwater Club. Annual dues for as little as $25. Just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/goldwater.htm *********************************** That Dog Won't Hunt No More "We have seen the first election in 20 years in which scaring the seniors on Social Security didn't move many votes or change any election results." - Washington Times editorial *********************************** Bubba Backlash "Instead of making Americans nostalgic for the prosperity of the 1990s, the sight of Clinton's face (on the 2002 campaign trail) seems to have reminded Americans of the irresponsibility that left the country unsafe and unprepared against terror." - Columnist David Frum, National Review Online *********************************** The (Mis)Adventures of Bonnie & Clod "The biggest Democratic losers of all were Bill and Hillary, the Bonnie and Clod of our times. The party came a cropper nearly everywhere the ex-prez went - New York, Florida, Minnesota, Georgia, Maryland. He was the Joe Btfsplk of the season, the little man in the comics pages who could never escape the rain cloud hovering close overhead. Election night was particularly ominous for Miss Bonnie. She won't run for president in '04, so bad are her vibes and numbers, and by '08 she probably won't even be a senator, since George Pataki's smashing re-election victory will set up a Pataki-Clinton match for '06." - Wes Pruden, "Pruden On Politics," 11/8/02 *********************************** Houston, We Have a Problem "Something's very wrong when a so-called national party (Democrats) cannot send its national chairman, or its titular head, or its Senate leader, into a third of this country because it would do more harm than good by being there." - Sen. Zell Miller, Georgia Democrat ************************************ Retread Rejection "Here's why I think the Democrats lost: The closing week of the election featured old Walter Mondale as the poster boy for the Democrats. Having led them to defeat in 1984, he came back for an encore in 2002 with the same result. Not only did the has-been liberal go down to defeat in his home state of Minnesota, but he dragged the party's Senate candidates down with him. "Looking like an aging member of Brezhnev's Politburo, he seemed the ghost of liberalism past as he emerged as the party's best-known Senate candidate. His very appearance told one volumes about the Democratic Party's embrace of his tax-and-spend past. The repositioning of the '90s vanished in a nod of his gray head and, like twice-cooked pork in a Chinese restaurant, he led his party to a second defeat." - Columnist Dick Morris *********************************** Donkeys' Future Ain't Lookin' Too Good, Either "But it's in the Senate where Democrats are most besieged. Not only did they decisively lose that chamber, but their prospects for the next two cycles don't look promising. Republicans had 20 seats to defend in this cycle, compared to the Democrats' 14 - a task made even more complicated by the retirements of two shoo-in senators (Texan Phil Gramm and Tennessean Fred Thompson) that diverted precious party resources. "In the next election cycle, it's the Democrats who will have to protect 19 incumbents compared to the Republicans' 15. Again, in 2006, Democrats will have 18 seats in play (including that of Vermont's independent Jim Jeffords), with 16 for the Republicans. "This will be made all the more difficult due to the ban on unlimited soft-money donations, which went into effect Wednesday. Republicans have always had an edge in hard-money contributions, and now that the limits have been doubled (and the GOP holds the majority), this could translate into a significant GOP advantage. "But as this election showed, mechanics alone aren't sufficient. If Republicans intend to remain in control, they will need to earn it the old-fashioned way - by producing. Playing and winning, after all, are two very different things." - Washington Times editorial, 11/8/02 *********************************** Telephone, Television & Tell-a-Friend If you know someone who might like to join the growing army of conservatives (and a few Palm Beach Democrats) who receive our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views briefings, just go to http://www.chuckmuth.com. *********************************** Sick and Tired "The electorate is tired of (the Democrats') bully tactics and suspicious of their habit of playing fast and loose with ethics and the law. . . . Moreover, the American people are famous for their sense of fair play. With increasing frequency, they have witnessed the Democrats breaking the rules or placing themselves above the law. "The widespread charges of voting fraud immediately before the election were almost always instances of Democratic voting fraud. The unedifying spectacle of the New Jersey Supreme Court denying a Republican candidate certain victory by changing the rules in midcontest is another example of a corrupt party in action." - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. ************************************ Mad As Hell & Not Taking It Any Longer "...Republicans have grown terribly weary of the lack of respect shown to them by Democrat leaders such as Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, and the constant attacks on them for racism, sexism, homophobia and corporate malfeasance, among other things. They also don't like it when they are continually attacked for simply wanting honest elections, while Democrats turn a blind eye to fraud in places like South Dakota, where a Democrat operative was caught attempting to forge absentee ballots. - Columnist Bruce Bartlett *********************************** Yes, Virginia, There Is a Mandate "After Jimmy Carter's debacle, the Reagan revolution was an obvious choice. The 1994 sweep was a mile wide, inch deep status quo backlash. But 2002 was broad. Deep. Conservatives won on our issues, Democrats lost on theirs. "All Republicans ever needed was a leader who could tell the truth better than Democrats lied. Now, President Bush has a decisive mandate. This isn't merely a conservative victory. It's a universe change. America is traveling the long road back to conservatism. That's why Republicans won the 2002 elections. "Now, let's govern." - Tom Adkins, editor, The Common Conservative ************************************ Uh-oh, Here We Go Again "Sen. James M. Jeffords of Vermont, who bolted from the Republican Party last year and handed control of the Senate to the Democrats, will face no retribution from his former party in the Republican-controlled 108th Congress. 'I doubt there will be any recrimination,' a Republican official on Capitol Hill said, speaking on the condition of anonymity." - Washington Times, 11/8/02 ************************************ The California Collapse "(Democrat) Gov. Gray Davis was elected to a second term in California, despite spending much of the first term wrecking California's economy and energy industry. Plainly, Californians are giving their vote away. I herewith propose that they secede from the Union." - Columnist Armstrong Williams ************************************ Searching for Mediocrity "'If Gray Davis could win with only a 5 percent [margin] against the worst-run political campaign in history, then imagine what [Republicans] could have done if they had run just a mediocre candidate." - Former Republican strategist Allen Hoffenblum, Washington Times, 11/7/02 *********************************** Maybe Simon Should Sue for Political Malpractice "The tragedy for Republicans (in California) is not that Mr. Simon lost, but that he could have won. Mr. Simon's campaign lacked a strategy. It was a mistake-prone campaign that telegraphed incompetence. Voters had thought anyone was better than Mr. Davis. Until Mr. Simon. Sadly, Mr. Simon was a victim of his own campaign." - Columnist Arnold Steinberg (Hey, wasn't Doug Lorenz one of those top Simon strategists?) ********************************* Conservative Books for Your Christmas List "Slander" - Ann Coulter: How prominent liberals are leading a "Big Lie" propaganda war against conservatives...and how the media is letting them get away with it! To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c5985&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Bias" - Veteran CBS reporter breaks ranks - and names names - to expose how liberal bias "pervades" the mainstream media. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c5866&sour_cd=C ME005601> "When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country" - G. Gordon Liddy explains why you're not as free as you used to be - and what you can do about it. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6070&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Invasion" - * Michelle Malkin's book "Invasion" shows how and why every component of America's immigration system has failed. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6063&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Breakdown" - In Breakdown, America's premier national security reporter Bill Gertz reveals how, since the 1970s, liberals have ravaged the CIA and FBI until both were rendered incapable of effective clandestine operations. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6007&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Let Freedom Ring" - In Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity comes out swinging, showing how liberal ideas have made America more vulnerable and created confusion in our society about what is right and wrong. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6024&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Fighting Back" - From 9/11 to victory in Afghanistan...the dramatic inside story of how the Bush White House mobilized against terror. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6076&sour_cd=C ME005601> "The Threatening Storm" -- From Kenneth Pollack -- a top CIA Iraq expert: why we must go to war with Iraq.Now a New York Times Best-Seller!To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6114&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Why the Left Hates America" -- Exposing the lies that have obscured our nation's greatness.To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6065&sour_cd=C ME005601> "First Among Equals" -- Ken Starr reveals: How the Supreme Court became the Left's favorite tool for making laws -- and what conservatives can do about it.To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c5990&sour_cd=C ME005601> ********************************* ********************************* Published by The Goldwater Club Chuck Muth, Editor/Publisher P.O. 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