MUTH’S TRUTHS

DEAR NEWS & VIEWS READERS: “Thank you very much.  I sincerely appreciate all the News and Views readers who contacted me and encouraged me to stay in the U.S. Congress to continue the fight for freedom.  I am overwhelmed and humbled by the outpouring of support and encouragement.  Working together we can carry on the conservative tradition of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to advance the cause of freedom.” - Rep. John Shadegg, Arizona Republican, 2/22/08

SHADEGG RIDES AGAIN

“Congressman John Shadegg announced Thursday that he will run for re-election, reversing a surprise decision he made last week to retire. Shadegg said he was moved by an outpouring of encouragement, including a letter…and thousands of calls to his home and office. He said the reaction to his retirement decision ‘stunned and deeply humbled me.’

“…Shadegg, 58, has served in Congress for seven terms, entering as part of the “Republican revolution” of 1994. He will face his first primary challenge since 1994, and it appears he could have the toughest re-election fight he ever has faced. Republican Steve May, a businessman and former legislator, earlier Thursday reaffirmed his commitment to the race.”

- Arizona Republic, 2/22/08

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS

“Allow me a dose of hardened market realism concerning Barack Obama’s landslide victory in Wisconsin. The race is over. Hillary Clinton is over. Her electability is over. Bill Clinton’s political invincibility is over. The Clinton Restoration is over. It’s over.”

- Columnist Lawrence Kudlow

AND NOW, THE END IS NEAR

“Last night’s (Democrat presidential) debate proved to be so somnolent that CNN reporter John King had to actually try to generate a fight between the two contenders. . . . Mrs. Clinton’s passive performance shows that she is either resigned to her fate or is saving up all of her ammunition for next Tuesday’s final scheduled debate in Ohio.”

- John Fund of Political Diary

LIVING HIGH OFF THE HOG

“Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s latest campaign finance report, published Wednesday night, appeared even to her most stalwart supporters and donors to be a road map of her political and management failings.”

- New York Times, 2/22/08

FREE PASS

“Like (Bill) Clinton in ‘92, Obama gets every benefit of the doubt from the media and from the voters. He’s been allowed to make mistakes and apologize for them; just like Clinton ‘92. It’s particularly frustrating for the Clinton campaign because, literally, what’s gone around has come around.”

- NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd

OBAMAMUSH

“Barack Obama’s biggest draw is not his eloquence. When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That’s good. He’s compelling, I like the way he speaks. And afterward all the commentators call him ‘impossibly eloquent’ and say ‘he gave me thrills and chills.’ But, in fact, when you go on the Internet and get a transcript of the speech and print it out and read it–that is, when you remove Mr. Obama from the words and take them on their own–you see the speech wasn’t all that interesting, and was in fact high-class boilerplate.”

- Columnist Peggy Noonan

BIG MAC ATTACK

“While McCain certainly has been accused of not being the most ‘Republican’ of candidates, he is clearly on his way to the nomination. That means that newspapers who pose their attacks as ‘features,’ as The Times apparently claimed in their article suggesting the impropriety, will now start to take every shot possible to tear down McCain.”

- Columnist Matt Towery

THE STING

“If John McCain weren’t such a trusting soul he would have wondered why The New York Times endorsed him — a member of the hated Republican Party — as their (slightly) preferred candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, especially when he knew they were preparing a slanderous, largely anonymously sourced, story bound to damage his candidacy and his reputation.

“The very wording of their endorsement should have been sufficient warning that eventually they’d be out to get him. He was merely the lesser of several evils facing GOP primary voters and they had at hand a weapon they believed they could use to scuttle his candidacy once he had snared the nomination and thus prevent a hated conservative from winning.”

- Columnist Michael Reagan

ANOTHER CPS HORROR STORY

Orange County Register columnist Steve Greenhut - who spoke at last year’s Conservative Leadership Conference in Reno - wrote this week about yet another truly outrageous abuse by the government at the hands of Child Protective Services: “Government rips an autistic boy from his home because it prefers a different treatment than the one offered by the parents.”

Read all about it HERE

If I can find something…anything…we can do to help the family in this heart-breaking predicament, I’ll let you know.

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National