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HOW LOW CAN THEY GO? �For 20 years, the Democrats wouldn't let Jimmy Carter within 100 miles of a Convention podium. The fact that Carter is now their most respectable speaker tells you where that party is today.� - Columnist Ann Coulter BREAK OUT THE MILK CARTONS Michael Dukakis, former Massachusetts governor and the Democrat presidential nominee who got toasted by Bush the First back in �88, is nowhere to be seen in Boston this week for the Kerry Coronation. Republicans might want to start pasting his picture on the sides of milk cartons with the �Have You Seen This Man?� slogan on �em. DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF �GREAT LEADER� �I know a great leader when I see one�� - Hillary Clinton introducing Monica Lewinsky�s former squeeze at the Democrat convention Monday night ET UT HILLARY? �There's actually a emergency psychological care facility here (at the Democrat convention) for delegates and media types who somehow have convinced themselves that Bill and Hillary actually want John Kerry to win this election. Sooner or later Kerry gets a figurative knife in the back. It will have Hillary's fingerprints.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz PERCEIVED LIABILITY �Yeah, there are a lot of people who are worried. (Teresa Kerry Heinz), in general, is not a perceived liability. But as a public spokesperson, she is perceived as a liability. I think a lot of people cross their fingers when she talks.� - Unnamed Kerry organizer, Washington Times, 7/27/04 LET�S GO TO THE TAPE� �As The Associated Press reported, Mrs. Heinz Kerry called for more civility in politics and added, �We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics.� Shortly afterward, she was asked by Colin McNickle, editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, what she meant by �un-American.� �Instead of clarifying, Mrs. Heinz Kerry denied her statement. . . . Notwithstanding her naked denial, audiotapes and reports of the incident leave no doubt that Mrs. Heinz Kerry did use the term �un-American.� The only ambiguous point is which traits or entities Mrs. Heinz Kerry considers �un-American.� Regardless, the charge has no place in American presidential politics � whether spoken by the candidates or their spouses.� - Washington Times editorial, 7/27/04 DEFENDING HIS MEAL TICKET �Sunday night Theresa Heinz Rodham Kerry was giving a speech to a bunch of supporters. After the speech a reporter from a conservative newspaper outside of Pittsburgh (site of Ms. Heinz Rodham Kerry's plantation) asked her if she had, indeed, called her husband's political opponents �Unamerican,� she told him to - and this is a quote - �Shove it.� The speech, and I am not making this up, the speech was on �civility.� �Senator Kerry, when asked what he thought, said, �I think my wife speaks her mind appropriately.� Observers here believe Senator Kerry may have recently re-read the pre-nup.� - Rich Galen, �Mullings,� 7/27/04 MORE FROM LITTLE MISS CIVILITY �...I think he's a perfect bastard.� - Teresa Heinz-Not-Yet-Kerry on Ted Kennedy in a 1975 book titled �The Power Lovers: An Intimate Look at Politicians and Their Marriages,� Boston Herald, 7/26/04 THE MINI-TERESA �The only way I can speak like residents of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania is to let my jaw drop an inch and talk with my lips in an �O� like a fish. I�d rather learn to speak Polish.� - Democrat convention speaker Christie Vilsack, wife of Iowa�s Democrat governor, in a 1994 column she wrote about the trouble she has understanding some Americans, including the black version of English and the �slurred speech� of Southerners. GIVING AWAY THE STORE �Looking at the line-up of speakers at the Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We'll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he'll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.� - Columnist Ann Coulter THE REAL DEMOCRATS �In one of many cameos flashed on the screen (during the Democrat convention), a senior citizen was recruited to say she had paid into Medicare for 40 years and that as a matter of �contract� the government now owed her a prescription drug benefit -- never mind that Medicare during all those years never collected a dime to cover her drugs and never contemplated covering them. Another TV cameo was a purported �worker� who called for his job to be protected at the expense of the truly poor in the developing world. �It all adds up to a revealing glimpse of the real Democratic base -- which is less an ideological movement than an agglomeration of interest groups that have perfected the art of demanding a handout and sounding self-righteous while doing it.� The picture here is of an electorate of the needy and demanding, constantly asking not what I can do for my country, but what my country can gimme, gimme, gimme.� - Holman W. Jenkins Jr., Political Diary, 7/27/04 ARE YOU FEELING MORE SECURE NOW? �Almost all of the Syrian musicians who were questioned by law-enforcement officials after exhibiting suspicious behavior aboard a Northwest Airlines flight were traveling on expired visas.� - Washington Times, 7/27/04 FAT-HEAD POLITICS �In the news release accompanying the recent decision by Tommy Thompson, secretary of health and human services, that loosened the longstanding federal restrictions on Medicare coverage of obesity-reducing medical treatments, it was noted that �[t]he new policy is not expected to have an immediate impact.� If not designed to meet an immediate or urgent need, why then would the administration, especially a Republican administration theoretically interested in reducing, not expanding, government programs, announce such a far-reaching and costly policy? Could it be because there are more and more obese people in America, and the Bush administration discovered they vote? Is this a cynical play for the �fat vote?� � - Former Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia BORDER CONTROL: EVEN HILLARY �GETS IT� �We need to secure our borders." - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking at the Democrat convention Monday night HIS-PANDERING EARNS W SQUAT �On the eve of the Democrats' national convention, John F. Kerry leads George W. Bush by 28 points among likely U.S. Hispanic voters in the latest Zogby poll. The poll released Monday has Kerry at 59 percent and Bush at 31 percent among the 1,003 likely Hispanic voters surveyed July 15-20.. . . �The president's people are still saying that he will get 40 percent to 42 percent of the Hispanic vote, but this poll does not give him much hope,� pollster John Zogby said.� - Peter Roff, UPI Political Briefs, 7/26/04 THE TROUBLE WITH W �There is, though persons in the Bush White House and in his re-election campaign may deny it, a noticeable lack of enthusiasm for President Bush among conservative Republicans as the nation heads into the home stretch of this year�s presidential election. Conservatives in every section of the country--certainly not all of them and maybe only a few of them (but it doesn�t take many to change the results of a close election)--are unhappy with their president. �...Here are some of the things some conservatives are unhappy about: The growth of government, the increase in spending, the increase in the size of the budget deficit and the national debt. The size and scope and cost of the No Child Left Behind education legislation. The size and scope and cost of the agricultural legislation. Illegal immigration: The failure adequately to police our borders. The coddling of illegal immigrants through proposals to legitimize their presence and the blatant refusal to take serious steps to deport them. �Conduct of the war on terror: On not doing enough--refusal to profile airline passengers while treating little old ladies and other obvious innocents as potential terrorists. Dragging their heels on the arming of airline pilots. Paying too little attention to radical Muslims in America legally. On doing too much--supporting parts of the Patriot Act that some see as endangering civil liberties unnecessarily. �While conservatives generally approve of the president�s appointees to the federal bench many believe he has not fought hard enough to win approval for those being blocked by senate Democrats. Many are also upset at the president�s refusal to veto some record high spending bills, as well as his signing of the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform measure which he had pledged to veto.� - Lyn Nofziger, former senior adviser to Ronald Reagan, �Musings,� 7/27/04 MONEY WELL-FLUSHED Well, the results of that $20,000 poll the Libertarians sprung for are starting to come in. Get this from the LP press machine on Tuesday: According to their survey, most Americans don�t think taxpayers should pick up the tab for the Democrat and Republican conventions. Holy cow! Really? Stop the presses! How in the world would we have ever known THAT without the LP springing twenty large for this insightful poll? Way to go, guys. Our nation turns it lonely eyes to you. I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR... The folks over at Laptoplobbyist.com are blasting away at Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Colorado Republican, and the five other GOP senators who voted against cloture, thus killing the Federal Marriage Amendment a little over a week ago. Carter Clews, founder of the organization, berates Campbell for his �lack of party loyalty.� Sorry...but Clews is clueless. When senators are sworn in, they swear their loyalty to defending the Constitution...not to the Republican Party. Folks like Clews can criticize the senator for any number of legitimate philosophical reasons for voting the way he did (we, of course, support his vote), but �party loyalty� sure as hell isn�t one of them. At the risk of injecting a worn-out clich�, isn�t that how the Nazis got started? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. Published by: Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ To be REMOVED, go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove/default.cfm Or send your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To make a secure online contribution to Citizen Outreach, go to the �Donate� page at www.citizenoutreach.com.
