Is there anyone out there who is not going to be watching game 7 in the American League Championship Series tonight? If you don't, you're un-American.  Probably a terrorist.

CHENEY HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD

With all of the stupidity swirling in the media from The Poodle about Social Security and the draft, Dick Cheney reminded voters what this election is about, and what it should be about.  The truth is that the United States was attacked 3 years ago, and that was nowhere near as bad as it could have been.  All an Islamic terrorist would have to do would be to smuggle a small nuclear device or a biological weapon into a major city and hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions could be killed.

Speaking at a campaign stop in Ohio, the vice president said as much:  "The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us - biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans."  That's right - all it will take is one weapon.  As the saying goes, we have to be right all the time, the terrorists have to be right once.

Yet, many Americans don't see the threat.  They're more worried about their health care..or their jobs...or what government handout The Poodle is going to give them.  They're more worried about their security than their freedom.  Sadly, these walking disasters amount to about half of the entire electorate. The president's #1 responsibility is to protect and defend the United States of America, and sadly not enough people understand that.

So would The Poodle be as aggressive in the fight against terrorism as George Bush?  Of course not...after all, he's already said we need a more sensitive war on terror. 

TO THE PEOPLE OF COLORADO

Hey!  Here's an idea! Why not make the state of Colorado entirely inconsequential when it comes to a presidential election!  I understand that you have a little proposition on your ballot in November that would allow Colorado's nine electoral votes to be apportioned on the basis of vote percentages in your state.  In other words, if Bush were to get 51 percent of the Colorado vote with Kerry getting 49%, the electoral votes would be five for Bush, four for Kerry.

Well, it's certainly your right to make up your own minds as to how your electoral votes will be cast.  If you wanted to give Colorado back country ski guides the sole and exclusive right to chose electors that would pass Constitutional muster.  But ... just a word of warning.  If you pass this measure Colorado will become completely inconsequential in presidential elections.  You will have seen your last major party presidential candidate during a campaign.  Right now in your state a one or two percentage point swing in the popular vote could mean a nine vote swing in electoral votes.   That's worth campaigning for.  If you pass this silly little proposal then that one or two percentage point swing would be worth one electoral vote.  That would simply not be worth the effort. 

So ... go ahead and pass this proposal if you think it might help one candidate or the other in this year's election.  Then watch as Colorado disappears into a snow bank when the next presidential election comes around.

Someone in Colorado is trying to sell you a bill of goods.  Question their motives. 

IT'S A MESS

Notice, please, how often you see that word used by virtually every spokesman for the Democratic Party and for John Kerry. "Bush has made a mess out of this ... that is a mess ... mess, mess, mess, mess." 

What we have here is a focus group at work.  Democratic strategists got their focus groups of undecided voters together and discovered that they react negatively to the word "mess."  The decision was made and the memos went out .. use the "mess" word every time you can, as often as you can and as loudly as you can when speaking about George Bush.  This is not a measure of the treachery of Democrats in this campaign.  It's a measure of good research and good politics.  It's also a good measure of the shallowness of the American voter.

IT WAS A CERTAINTY, BUT IT'S STILL DISGUSTING

It's happened in every national election during the past 40 years.  In the final days leading up to the vote Democrats head to Florida to warn senior citizens that the evil Republicans are going to take away their precious Social Security benefits.  The Poodle was in Florida yesterday doing just that.  Kerry told the Florida wizened class that Bush would "(Sacrifice)  the retirement of millions of Americans in order to reward the rich and the powerful."  Yup, that's the line for this year.  Bush's  "Tax giveaways for millionaires" will endanger Social Security. 

Even the Washington Post, a liberal newspaper, is accusing Kerry of engaging in demagoguery.  In an editorial the Post says that Kerry is trying to "... scare seniors rather than engage in that serious discussion." The Wall Street Journal calls Kerry's tactics the "scare tactics of a desperate candidate." 

Never mind Kerry's mindless "tax giveaway" line.  The line is good because it IS mindless.  People who are inclined to vote Democratic are precisely the people who react in predictable ways to mindless remarks. 

Back to the Social Security Scare. This is why the Democrats cannot ever allow people to own their own Social Security accounts.  If you own your own account then it would be impossible for Democrat Demagogues to hit the campaign trail to frighten you into believing that wicked Republicans are going to take your Social Security away. 

If you own your own retirement account that makes you immune to political scare tactics.  Democrats don't want you to feel this sense of independence and immunity. 

LET'S FRIGHTEN THE YOUNG TOO

Well, while we're scaring the dog squeeze out of the wrinkled class, how about young people?  What can we do to frighten them out of their baggy shorts?  The draft, that's it!  Never mind that the only politicians who have proposed a return to the draft in the past four years have been Democrats ... get on MTV and tell the know-it-all generation that Bush has "secret plans" to reinstitute the draft if he's elected.  Will there be young people who will head to the polls and vote for Mr. Worthless because they're afraid of being drafted?  Count on it.. 

AND THEN THERE'S BIO-TERROR VACCINES.

Oh .. you didn't know that there are Bio-terror vaccines?  I have to really give the Democrats credit on this one.  Brilliant electioneering.  We now have advertisements running on television saying that if Bush can't make sure that there's enough flu vaccine on hand for the flu season, how can we have any confidence that the Bush administration will be able to have enough bio-terror vaccines on hand?  The obvious answer here is that if we do experience a horrendous bio-terror attack on America it will probably be because of a weakened posture due to the election of John Kerry.  That being the case we know that the Kerry administration will have all the bio-terror vaccine we need at the ready.

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BUT WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FLU VACCINE SITUATION?

The situation is complicated, to be sure, but if you understood the complete story about the whys and hows of the current flu vaccine shortage you would understand that the culprit is government.  Pharmaceutical companies are simply not allowed to use free market practices to meet the demand for flu vaccine.  The Imperial Federal Government of the United States prevents these companies from pricing their vaccines in such a way as to be certain that huge losses will be avoided.  If the federal government won't let you play the game for profit, why play the game at all?

But know this.  If Halliburton suddenly came up with a way to make millions of flu vaccine doses in 48 hours, and if the Bush administration awarded Halliburton a no-bid contract to move ahead with the manufacture of those vaccine doses ... the Democrats would immediately hit the airwaves with a television commercial slamming the Bush crowd for awarding yet another no-bid contract to Halliburton; and God help us if Halliburton actually made any money.

10,000 LAWYERS AND 76 TROMBONES

The Kerry / Edwards campaign has breathlessly announced that it has recruited 10,000 lawyers to spread out across America to contest election results.   Campaign spokesmen say that the lawyers will go about their work even if Bush wins by a large margin. The game here is to create an expectation among voters that Republicans are planning to and indeed will engage vote fraud and voter intimidation in order to steal the election from Kerry. 

There's a long-term plan at work here; a long-term plan to write and pass legislation governing elections that will benefit Democrats.  The welfare-voter bill would be an example of the type of legislation I'm talking about.  You probably don't realize it, but several years ago Democrats managed to browbeat Republicans into passing a bill that requires states to offer an opportunity to register to vote to any person signing up for welfare benefits.  If the Democrats are successful in creating an image of widespread voter disenfranchisement they'll be able to pass many more such laws ... all benefiting them. 

Wait and see.  This will be another classic Boortz "I told you so."

PLAYING THE RACE CARD

Kerry's words:

"Never again will one million African Americans be denied the right to exercise their vote in the United States of America."

There is absolutely NO evidence to support any allegation that a million blacks were denied the right to cast a legal vote.  None.  The Justice Department said it didn't happen, and the bipartisan General Accounting Office has chimed in with its own report saying that the evidence doesn't exist.  This is an entirely made-up statistic ... made up by the Democrats in order to both frighten and enrage black voters.  Frighten them by making them believe that there is some sort of an organized effort by evil Republicans to deny them their vote, and to enrage them so that they will turn out in huge numbers to right this imaginary wrong.

It's all setting the stage .. setting the stage by playing the race card.

SINCLAIR BROADCASTING CAVES

Well, well, well.  What a difference a couple of days and some threats from Democrats make.  Caving in to pressure, Sinclair Broadcasting has decided that it won't air the entire documentary about The Poodle called "Stolen Honor," but plans to include excerpts of it in a news special Friday.  So why the reversal?

You see, Sinclair Broadcasting operates 62 television stations.  Each of those stations is licensed by the FCC and regulated by the government.  Sinclair realizes that there is a 50-50 chance that The Poodle might get elected, and they would be subject to retaliation.  In fact, a Kerry spokesman said as much when he appeared on Fox News last week: "I think they're going to regret doing this and they better hope we don't win."

We have a situation in the United States where, regardless of First Amendment guarantees of freedom of the press, the majority of Americans rely on institutions that are licensed by the federal government for their news.  Sinclair Broadcasting is among those institutions.  The Kerry campaign threatened to use the police power of government to punish Sinclair if they broadcast a certain news program.  For Sinclair it all came down to a matter of political survivial.

The left loves freedom of speech, as long as they agree with it.

BUSH-BASHING FROM OVERSEAS

The British newspaper The Guardian has asked its readers to contact 36,000 undecided voters in Ohio in an attempt to influence the outcome of the November 2nd presidential election.  You would have known this a week ago if you were a regular Boortz listener.  As you may have guessed, The Guardian is a leftist newspaper that is trying to defeat George Bush. 

People are getting these letters from overseas, and take a look at an excerpt from one of the letters:

"Please act now to preserve your once-great name internationally. We know the majority of you didn't vote for Bush the first time around, but voting him in for a second term will mean putting on a Canadian accent when traveling abroad."

In other words, they're threatening people that if they should vote for the president, they might not want to show their face abroad.  Such is the left's hatred for George Bush that they will stop at nothing to ensure his defeat, even if it means getting people who live in foreign countries to do their dirty work for them.

So ... how is the campaign working out?  Not as well as expected.  The Guardian is getting buried under letters and emails from American citizens, especially from Ohio, telling them, in so many words, to mind their own damned business.  A startling number of these messages to the Guardian make reference to British teeth.

Ohhhhhhh ...... Low blow.  Next thing you know we're going to be saying ugly things about British cuisine.

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READING ASSIGNMENTS

John Kerry loves to talk about "tax giveaways" to the evil, wicked, nasty rich.  Isn't it interesting that John and Teresa Kerry, who enjoy an annual  income that is about 10-times that of George and Laura Bush, pays taxes at a 12.4% rate?  Teresa also manages to avoid her "fair share" of Social Security taxes.   Guess it's on the "other" rich who get those government giveaways.

Kofi Annan, the anti-American wannabe world president, is trying to explain away the involvement of France and Russia in the Oil for Food scandal.  Remember, if you disagree with Kofi that means you're a xenophobic racist. 

There's a new group of voters that is going overwhelmingly for The Poodle, and Michelle Malkin calls them the Hysterical women for Kerry.

The American Muslim vote is shifting to The Poodle.  Which president has liberated more Muslims in our time than any other? George Bush.  Oh well, thanks for nothing.

Looks like the woman accusing O'Reilly of harassment may have had an axe to grind.  Looks like what they say about there being two sides to every story is true here.  Meanwhile, O'Reilly is seeking recordings of phone calls from the accuser...how long before they wind up on the Internet?

Islamic terrorists have one short-term goal above all others: to defeat George W. Bush for re-election.  Joseph Farah explains why he'll be voting for Bush for the first time.

You know the charge that the poor and uninsured are clogging up emergency rooms?  It's a myth.

Katherine Harris, the former Florida secretary of state, hits back at Jimmy Carter's assertion that voting in Florida is not fair.

This should come as no surprise....a former Vietnam Veteran says The Poodle pressured him to lie about atrocities during the Vietnam war.

The New York Times says that if Sinclair Broadcasting knows what's good for it, it won't air the documentary about John Kerry.  Is that a threat?  You bet.

A new poll shows President Bush doing twice as well among blacks this year as he did in 2004.  Could it be that this traditionally strong Democratic constituency is just not excited about The Poodle?

Here comes the scare campaign...with less than two weeks left, negative campaigning is at a fever pitch, and most of it is by The Poodle.  John Podhoretz takes a look.

John Kerry is the overwhelming choice for president among the media elites.  The Media Research Center catches them admitting it on TV in this report.

This is a sKerry flip-flop you don't hear much about.  Turns out The Poodle was for the World Court before he was against it. Terrence Jeffrey has more.

A lot is going to be said and written about the Electoral College, but Jonah Goldberg says we need to defend it, and continue to keep it around.

Politicians love to pander to a population that has been dumbed down by government schools. As an example, Walter Williams takes a look at the claim that 43 million Americans have no health insurance.

ABC has now joined CBS with it's pro-Kerry biased reporting.  Thomas Sowell talks about Nightline's reporting about the Swift Boat Veterans.

Arnold Schwarzenegger says his wife cut him off after he gave the speech at the Republican National Committee supporting President Bush.

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