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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... We received a reply via a third party about that Libertarian Party plan to flush twenty thousand big ones down the john for polling. As usual, my response to their response doesn�t exactly sugar-coat it. But as bad as the LP is, there�s a third party that�s even MORE pathetic. I dish the dirt - along with some insightful observations on court-stripping by Congressman Ron Paul, plus some pearls of wisdom from Tommy Jefferson on the dangers of unfettered illegal immigration and amnesties - all on today�s News & Views EXTRA page at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ WE INTERRUPT THE DNC CONVENTION� Nah. We wouldn�t think of it. Instead...we�re IGNORING it. While Hillary is standing by her man and introducing him to the liberal Bush-whacking fanatics in Boston tonight, I�ll be sitting in Section 28, Row MM at Camden Yards (stop by if you�re in the neighborhood and buy me a beer!), most likely watching the Boston Red Sox beat the snot out of the Baltimore Orioles...a great franchise thoroughly ruined by the ownership of a Bush-whacking, ambulance-chasing, �girlie man� named Pete Angelos. But I digress... Since I have no intention of watching the convention tonight (and we pretty much know already what these losers are going to say anyway), I�m going to take this opportunity to send tomorrow�s News & Views out early...so I can devote tomorrow to finishing up a critical project that�s been underway for a couple of months now...webcasting campaign workshops. In fact, I�ll be doing some final testing on Tuesday and may be able to launch later this week. So if you are running for office, working for a candidate running for office, are volunteering for a candidate or party organization, or just have an interest in the nuts-and-bolts of running a campaign...make SURE you sign up for my FREE campaign training newsletter where I�ll be revealing all the details soon at: www.campaigndoctor.com MISSION IMPOSSIBLE �(John) Kerry�s political viability this fall will depend on his ability to persuade - or spin - voters to believe that he�s not another McGovern, Carter or Dukakis.� - Washington Times editorial, 7/26/04 A ROSE IS A ROSE �You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is.� I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on." - Don Imus, MSNBC's �Imus In The Morning,� 7/26/04 KERRY SERVED IN VIETNAM? �(John) Kerry is a combat veteran who was awarded three purple hearts for minor wounds and won silver and bronze stars for valor during a four month period in Vietnam. Kerry�s immediate post-service anti-war record, which is not worth bragging about to anyone except supporters of Jane Fonda, is only being mentioned under duress. But the fact is, most people don�t care about either his war record or his post-war performance. What Kerry did or thought 25 or 30 years ago is irrelevant to what he believes today, or why he wants to be president, or what he wants to do if elected.� - Lyn Nofziger, �Musings,� 7/26/04 THE NO-AGENDA ZONE �No one would question Senator Kerry's patriotism or the service that he performed in Vietnam. But don't you have to say more in answer to 'What are we going to do about Iraq'? Don't you have to do more than just say, 'I'm a Vietnam veteran?' Because he really has laid out no agenda about how to make this situation better than it is." - Bob Schieffer, host of Face the Nation on CNN's Reliable Sources, �Political Diary,� 7/26/04 A MANSION OF MALAISE �No longer the Party of Hope, today's Democratic Party has become Mr. Kerry's many mansions of cynicism and skepticism. As our economy continues to get better and businesses add jobs, Mr. Kerry's going around America trying to convince people that the roof is about to cave in. He talks about �the misery index� and the Depression. What does he know about either? And when it comes to taxes and services, you'd be pressed to find anyone more opposed to the interests of middle-class Americans than John Kerry. Except maybe John Edwards.� - Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), Wall Street Journal, 7/26/04 POLITICIANS DO NOT CREATE JOBS �I have written twenty books, produced hundred of tapes, and given several thousand lectures over the past twenty-five years. When I sit down and create a book I send it to an editor who I pay to edit the manuscript. The way I see it, I just created a job. My editor receives payment, sends in her taxes and now two are working. The editing process involves a computer. A third job is created. The publisher copy edits the manuscript, and a fourth job is created. This process continues through many levels, with a job after job being created all because I decided to write a book. The printers, inspectors, typesetter, delivery people, booksellers, accountants, stock boys, cashiers, have jobs that were created because working stiff have the ingenuity, gumption, and desire to create and produce. �...The money you (politicians) use to fund job-producing legislation originate from those who produce. It is really quite simple. Politicians do not create jobs. . . . You print money. You regulate. You pass laws. But we produce jobs. We create wealth by working and producing, not by sitting in committees and talking up our self-importance.� - Author Dr. Wayne Dyer BATTLE OF THE PROTESTORS �The anti-war groups are here (at the Democrat convention), of course, but thus far the group that is making the noise would be...the anti-abortion protesters. They're armed with huge pieces of chalk and are scrawling their messages all over Boston. Some anti-war protesters beat the dog squeeze out of an aborto-centrist yesterday because they thought his sign was �offensive.� While the fight between the abortion protesters and the non-violent peaceniks was going on, one woman was heard screaming �You're stepping on my peace signs!� The anti-war protesters countered the anti-abortion protesters with chants of �free abortion on demand.� So, now not only should abortion be legal...but someone else ought to pay for it. Typical.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 7/26/04 DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF �INADVERTENT� �By his own words, (Sandy Berger is) guilty of acts for which any other American would go to jail. He �inadvertently� shoved 30-page classified documents down his pants and then �inadvertently� lost them at home and then �inadvertently� returned to the National Archives to �inadvertently� take another draft of the same 30-page document and �inadvertently� lose that, too. He �inadvertently� made forbidden cellphone calls from the room with the classified documents, and he �inadvertently� took more suspicious bathroom breaks while in the Archives than that Syrian band took on that Los Angeles flight that was in the news last week.� - Columnist Mark Steyn IS THAT A BANANA IN YOUR POCKET? �Caught stashing top-secret, code-word documents in various parts of his clothing, (former National Security Advisor Sandy) Berger gets help from his old boss when Bill Clinton comes to his defense with a claim, 'Oh, that's just Sandy's way,' and says that he's just disorganized. "You can just imagine what it was like in the Clinton White House when they were having an all-night pizza party to discuss foreign affairs. Clinton asks National Security Adviser Berger for the presidential decision memo on North Korea, and [the] rumpled Berger stands up, checks his armpits for the memo, then reaches into his trousers and ... pulls out the NAFTA policy paper, the memo on NATO expansion, plans to deal with Burma human rights, but no Korean paper. "Finally someone says, 'Sandy, have you checked in back?' Sandy fumbles around, reaches down the back of his trousers ... and lo and behold out comes the Clinton policy on North Korea. I knew this is where they got their foreign policies." - Phil Christenson, �Inside the Beltway,� 7/26/04 BOIES WILL BE BOIES Our friend and colleague Kay Daly has written a brilliantly sarcastic column on the efforts of slip-and-spill attorneys such as John Edwards and David Boies to do to Captain Morgan what they did to Joe Camel. I highly recommend giving it a read over at GOPUSA.com: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/guest/2004/krd_0726.shtml IT�S THE SPENDING, STUPID �Republicans (used to) view tax cuts as a way to constrain the size of government � taking away its allowance, as Ronald Reagan used to put it. . . . (T)he old starve-the-beast theory is completely dead. Not only do Republicans make no effort to even restrain, let alone cut, spending, they have actually gone in the opposite direction and now raise spending for just about anything they think will buy them a vote. They have morphed into a caricature of 1960s Democrats, but with even less concern for deficits than Lyndon Johnson had.� - Columnist Bruce Bartlett GIRLIE MEN THROW HISSY FIT �(California Governor) Arnold Schwarzenegger trod on some well-manicured, buffed and polished toes...when he slammed the California Democrats stalling the budget as �girly men.� . . . . But the Democrats were more than upset - they were mortally offended. . . . The Democrats should realize they prove Arnold�s case by throwing a hissy fit over his harmless joke. Only a girly man would get into the world of hardball politics and then cry when he gets hit by the pitch.� - WorldNetDaily.com columnist Benjamin Shapiro LANCING A BAD DEAL �I�m rooting for Lance Legstr--oops, sorry!--Armstrong to win the Tour de France if for no other reason than I like seeing an American stick it to Europeans in general and the French in particular. But wanting Armstrong to win doesn�t mean I approve of the U.S. Postal Service sponsoring him. In fact, I think it�s an outrage. �What in heck is the postal service doing spending money sponsoring not just Armstrong but any athlete. It doesn�t need the publicity. It doesn�t need to advertise for business, it�s a monopoly and other companies are forbidden by law to compete with it for the first class mail business. �This batch of postal service bureaucrats already runs such an inefficient operation that stamps that once cost three cents now cost thirty-seven and even that price doesn�t assure them a profit or that you�ll get your mail within a reasonable time period or even that it will come to the right address. And yet it takes part of that 37 cents to sponsor some guy wearing short pants and riding a bicycle around some foreign country.� - Lyn Nofziger, �Musings,� 7/23/04 (NOTE: Under pressure from folks such as News & Views readers, the post office has announced that it will NOT be renewing Armstrong�s sponsorship when it expires at the end of this year. Internet activism works!) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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