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 I'll Have the Tofu PETA Pocket
* Rudy Giuliani's trip to Arkansas has been described as a "cheap political ploy." The phrase "cheap political ploy" is in the Oxford English Dictionary as the definition for the word: redundancy.
* Speaking of cheap political ploys, Mullings is going on the road! The Iowa Republican Party and, in particular, Communications Director Ann Dougherty, is allowing Mullings into the vicinity of Ames, Iowa during the August 14th presidential straw poll.
* Mullings normally travels in the breakdown lane of America's information superhighway on Mondays and Thursdays. Mullings will uncover secrets about the voters, the campaigns, the press, the livestock (another redundancy) and anything else that catches my eye by adding Friday the 13th, straw poll day on the 14th and a wrap-up on Sunday the 15th. All will be available via e-mail and at www.mullings.com.
* Bea Arthur (Maude) and the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are chasing after "Eco-Al" Gore because he favors using animals to test the effects of certain chemicals on living things. PETA is running anti-Gore commercials in Iowa, New Hampshire and Tennessee. I've never been much of a fan of PETA but now I'm going to start eating their bread.
* Here's the problem for Gore - as if he needed another problem: Democrats are speed dialing every reporter in the country to make the case that a third party candidate will spell certain doom for the Republican nominee. But what if, in a few key states, this Gore-as-anti-environmentalist thing catches fire and the Green party fields a candidate who gets five or six percent of the vote?
* According to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, it's going to take more than a third party candidate to stop George W. The Teeter-Hart poll shows Bush leading Elizabeth Dole 59-11 in the Republican primary contest. The rest of the GOP field is in single figures.
* In the General election match up, Bush leads Gore 50-37. This causes Democratic leadership to seriously talk about whether they can continue to assume Gore as their nominee, Green party problems or not.
* The ridiculous ending to the ridiculous 30th anniversary of Woodstock caused a college friend to call and tell me that in OUR day, 30 years ago, our friends would have looked at the tractor-trailers burning and said, "Hey, man. Is it noon again already?"
* The original Woodstock cost about five hundred thousand dollars to put on. This one cost upwards of $32 million. It's a corollary to the Bauhaus idiom. Sometimes more is less.
* I want to spend a little time this morning remembering Dan Dutko who was killed in a bicycling accident in Colorado earlier this week.
* Dutko was the perfect political opponent. He was a committed Democrat. He was prodigious fund raiser for his party, especially the Democratic National Committee. Dan was a person who, when the game clock was running, was as tough a competitor as exists in this business of politics.
* But, when the game clock was off, you could ask for no better friend on this planet.
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