I recognize that most conservatives are now firmly behind John McCain in his race against “community organizer” Barack Obama - especially after putting Sarah Barracuda on his ticket. But his call in his acceptance speech to use the federal government to provide job training for folks who are out of work - whether through […]
Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Politics is about perception.
Let’s say you’re holding an event in which you expect 75,000 people to show up. If 50,000 people show up, that’s still a huge success…but not if you told everyone you expected 75,000. In that case, you’ve performed below expectations and the press will write that your event was a […]
Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Tonight was the end of the beginning of the campaign, and the beginning of the end of the campaign. And where once in the Republican home where nothing was heard but a discouraging word, hope springs eternal. A look back before looking ahead…
* OK, after last night’s boffo performance by Sarah Palin, […]
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Wow.
* OK, let’s flash forward to the future before we go back and look at tonight’s royal roasting of The Chosen One.
* Let’s say John McCain wins in November and then, as many suspect, doesn’t run for re-election. Folks, we could then be looking at a Sarah Palin-Hillary Clinton brawl for the […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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A tough balancing act faced Republicans with how to handle President Bush. Not the most popular guy in America today, or even in his own party. But the man is the sitting incumbent president. You couldn’t “dis” him and not have him speak at all, much as some may have liked. […]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Yucca Mountain’s opposition in Nevada has been widely suspected by many of being a mile wide and an inch deep, but never has this assessment been so substantiated as it was by news last week that Sen. Harry Reid turned in a petition urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission not to approve the licensing application for […]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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If you’re John McCain, how in the world do you compete with an opponent who delivered his acceptance speech before 84,000 people in an outdoor stadium filled with all the pomp and circumstance of a Hollywood production?
Answer: You don’t. You can’t.
Nothing John McCain could have done at this week’s Republican National Convention could possibly […]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Of all the veep choices floated out there by the McCain camp in recent weeks, none were particularly exciting. Sarah Palin is. An inspired choice which knocked Obama off the stage almost before he actually got off stage from his big Thursday night speech.
* This brief statement by my old boss and […]
Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Obama hit a particular nerve with me - and I’m sure a lot of people, especially military folks - when he said in his acceptance speech, “We must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights.”
You see, this is EXACTLY where I began to lose faith in the […]
Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Some observations on Day Last of the Demo-lition Derby in Denver…
* Great show. John Mccain and the Republicans have their work cut out for them. But first a few words about Ozone Al.
* Al Gore strode to the podium this evening to the 60s song “Let the Sun Shine.” Did it […]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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