Wednesday, April 28, 2004

"The fundamental difference in this election will be between President Bush's steady leadership in the war on terror and John Kerry's consistent political opportunism on the war on terror."
--Steve Schmidt, Bush campaign spokesman

A COUP IN THE WORKS?

The election is still a little over six months away, and already Democrats are starting to have buyer's remorse over their rushed nomination of The Poodle.  You could see this coming a mile away, since "anybody but Bush" is not a victory strategy for this November.  People have to be able to vote for something, and the more they see of John Kerry, it's not looking good.  In their haste to nominate someone as soon as possible, they failed to properly vet their candidate and let the process play out.

If you spend any amount of time sniffing around the Internet .. especially sites created by and frequented by Democrats .. you will see the expressions of doubt.  A Mickey Kaus article on Slate cites one Democrat blogger asking "At what point do Democrats begin to consider that they haven't nominated this guy yet?"  Some Democrats are saying "Uh oh .. .we nominated a turkey."  James Ridgeway, a liberal columnist for The Village Voice writes "With the air gushing out of John Kerry's balloon, it may be only a matter of time until political insiders in Washington face the dread reality that the junior senator from Massachusetts doesn't have what it takes to win and has got to go."  "Dem leaders" he says," are going to be very sorry they screwed Howard Dean."

Web Guy tells me that there's a huge increase in emails from Nuze readers who think something is afoot also.  They're wondering whether the replacement will be The Hildabeast or John Edwards.  But, don't forget ... Dennis Kucinich is still a candidate!  He hasn't yet thrown in the towel.

Just watch this over the next few days.  If more columns are written and the "Kerry must go" movement picks up any steam the next few months could get more and more interesting.  It may be time to head for the pound and see if there's another, cuter stray.

Does anyone around here other than me smell a Clinton?

THE SHI'ITE HITS THE FAN IN IRAQ

The Islamic terrorists in Iraq are finally getting the message, and a very forceful one delivered by the United States Marines.  It's about time isn't it?  As we speak, our boys are stacking up dead insurgents in Fallujah and Najaf.  Maybe they'll reconsider the offer next time to turn in their weapons first.

The official Pentagon line continues to be that this is not a new push in Fallujah against the insurgents, but rather just a case of the Marines defending themselves. Whatever...it should be a new push...and a big one. How about this: we surround the city, give women and children 48 hours to leave, then unleash the full wrath and fury of the United States military down on their Islamic terrorist heads.  That would take care of the "insurgency" problem, would it not?  Instead, Sheiks from across Iraq are headed there today for more worthless negotiations.

Meanwhile, in Najaf, where the Spanish gazpacho-eating surrender monkeys recently departed, real progress is being made. Seven fighters from al-Sadr's militia were roasted after opening fire on a U.S. patrol (bad idea) and 57 more militiamen were killed in a later clash.  Good...this is what these people understand. The only way they are going to stop causing trouble is if we respond with overwhelming lethal force. 

It used to be official U.S. policy that we didn't negotiate with terrorists...apparently somebody has changed their mind. 

YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?   NO!  WAIT!  LEAVE ME ALONE!

James Taranto's Best of the Web Today column had two interesting quotes from The Poodle and The Poodle's handler yesterday.

Quote No. 1

"If George Bush wants to make national security an issue in this campaign, I have three words for him that I know he'll understand. Bring it on!"--John Kerry, quoted in the New York Times, Feb. 1

Quote No. 2

"Call off the Republican attack dogs."--Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, responding to Dick Cheney's speech on John Kerry's defense record, quoted by the Associated Press, April 26

OK, guys.  Make up your minds.  Are you really ready to debate sKerry's record on national defense, or do you want to spend the rest of the campaign whimpering and crying?

THE POODLE'S $1,000 GROOMING

What do you do when you're about to appear on 'Meet The Press' and you need to groom your Poodle in a pinch?  You call up your rich owner (er...wife) and have her fly out your Christophe hair stylist to meet you for a $1,000 touch-up, of course.  According to an exclusive on the Drudge Report, this is exactly what happened.  Boy...this John Kerry is a real man of the people, isn't he? Ridiculous.

Actually ... since The Poodle's groomer was flown in and back on a G-V, an airplane that costs no less than $4,000 an hour to operate, we can put the price of this little touch-up at around $10,000, not the $1,000 reported in Drudge.  John Kerry, the man of the people, will fork over ten grand of the family fortune for a trim.  Now that's identifying with the common man.

If the name Christophe sounds familiar, this is the same outfit that held up an entire airport while President Clinton got his hair cut during his time in office.  In addition to Kerry, this particular stylist, Isabelle Goetz, also grooms the Hildabeast.  What is it with liberals and hair styles?

Oh, and by the way, in keeping with tradition, The Poodle's hair stylist was born and raised in France, maintaining the presumptive Democratic nominee's status as an authentic French poodle.

UPDATE ON THE GREAT FLORIDA DEVELOPER LAND GRAB

The Florida legislation designed to subject private property rights subject to the desires of developers and local political hacks is flying so low under the radar that it's difficult to get any real news.  The legislature has only until Friday to pass this bill.  If you want more information on just what this bill does,  read "Florida Legislative Outrage" in the Nealz Nuze archives.

Here's just one of the literally hundreds of emails we received yesterday about this legislation:

Oh my! Sadly (frighteningly) it's true. I just read the bill, and the votes, on MyFlorida.com. Here I sit, on a sweet little piece of 'Mayberry USA', within one mile of downtown Jacksonville (soon to be know as Atlanta-South). My property value is going up 12%-15% per year. THIS IS my retirement savings... My retirement home... My legacy to my daughter. Within a very few years I'm certain that developers will be knocking on my door. If this bill passes, I will have to read of their intent in the local paper. How in the hell did this manage to escape our radar? Thank you SO much for bringing this to our attention.

This listener has it exactly right.  If this bill passes the developers who covet his property won't be knocking on his door ... they'll be talking to that politician they supported in the last election.   They'll be spinning stores of all the additional tax revenue they could generate if the politician would just seize that property and turn it over to them. 

The writer mentioned votes.  Well, I've received two different accounts of what happened in the Florida State Senate yesterday.  The Senate did consider SB2548 and did defeat it by a vote of 19 to 18.  Three Senators, Dawson, King and Lawson, didn't vote.  That leaves a lot of room for some pressure to be put on at least three Senators to get in there and pass this attack on private property rights.  I'm also told that the bill was brought up again with some amendments, and two Democrats switched their vote.  This is not reflected in any of the records posted on the legislative website.

GREAT POINT!

This email from a listener yesterday:

I was watching a program about the SDS/Weatherman and one of them was quoted as saying that their hatred for the U.S. Govenment gave them a feeling of moral superiority.  I thought about this in light of the fact that liberals appear to have developed a religion based on hate and that their morality is derived from this kind of thinking.  Furthermore, Islamoterroists really derive their religion not from Islam but from hate.  Islamic institutions have allowed themselves to become part of this process because it gives them power.  Liberials seemed to be headed down the same slippery slope.  C.H.  Coppell, Texas.

FOR MY AVIATION FRIENDS

Here is a picture of an airplane on approach to a small airport in St. Barth. Would I try this in a Decathlon?  Yes.  Mooney, no. The road is the highway to St. Jean.  People will park their cars on this hill and videotape the airplanes coming in for a landing.  If you stand up in a jeep you could touch the wheels of an airplane diving for the runway.  On this highway there is a sign warning drivers that the airplanes may come as close as 3 meters to the roadway.  What fun!

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A plea from a Marine serving in Iraq.  I'm going to read this on the air today .. and you will probably be sending me an email asking me to post it on Nealz Nuze.  Well ... here it is..

It's 2004!  And, guess what?  We can still breathe!

Hint for the criminally incompetent.  Don't try to mug a suicide bomber.

Hint for those of you who's lives are so empty that you actually participate in voting for contestants on "American Idol."  If you don't vote for the black contestants then that just has to mean that you are a racist.  Elton John Says So. 

Protestors are plotting to infiltrate the Republican National Convention in New York City ... as volunteers.  The goal?  Disruption.

A group which received a contribution from Teresa Heinz Kerry posted an article on their website calling fallen war hero Pat Tillman a "dumb jock." Astonishing, isn't it?

Here's more about the Pat Tillman article posted on the web from Ben Shapiro.

Liberal "Republican" Senator Arlen Specter narrowly won the Republican primary in Pennsylvania by less than 20,000 votes. The turnout was low....what if it had been higher?

John Kerry is a terrible candidate, and people are finally starting to notice.  John Podhoretz says The Poodle keeps sticking his foot in his mouth. 

The soft bigotry of low expectations continues to dog poor education in government schools. Walter Williams reports.

The media likes to play bait and switch with the guests it invites on shows. Thomas Sowell explains how he handles the situation.

Most Europeans don't want to us to fight the war on terror like we're doing it.  Rich Tucker talks about why we should continue to go it alone and win, at any cost.

Since The Poodle has made his Vietnam service central to his campaign, Jonah Goldberg says there are legitimate questions involved in 'medalgate.'

In one sentence, why does John Kerry want to be president?  Can't think of one? Neither can Tony Blankley

Did you catch any of the pro-abortion march recently on TV?  Michelle Malkin has some observations.  (Note: This does not constitute an invitation to call the show and talk about abortion. Just read the column.)

The Poodle's main vulnerability is not what happened while he was serving in Vietnam, but rather what he did after he came back. Linda Chavez talks about the difference.

William F. Buckley says it is dumb to search little old ladies at the airport when we know what we're looking for. 

Near Atlanta, a 12-year-old boy has been arrested for the strangulation death of an 8-year-old girl.  Unbelievable.

More from Atlanta.  The Mayor's son-in-law has turned himself in on cocaine trafficking charges.

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