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This is mere noise about Russert - Mommys rule in the end.

He wanted to state his case in his own words, in a forum with a tough interviewer, so that nobody could say he was ducking issues or going into hiding.

Bush, as usual, hit this target squarely - it was the sole purpose of the interview. I watched it - Bush allowed Tim to play interrogator, and it was Tim who ended up looking not very clever. That's a reality I've yet to read about this morning.

Bush, in a nutshell, is not nuts. He doesn't say to Russert "I'm not going to lose" lightly. He says it like a man who knows it.

All this noise about WMD is not going to matter to the voting woman. In America, the average woman who votes is deeply connected as a mother or to a woman who is a mother.

Bush will win the 'mother' vote and he knows it. It's that simple. 9-11 will for a long, long time make the 'mother' voters ask a single question: "which button makes me feel safer about my loved ones"?

"Mommy" may vote straight ticket democrat on all else (and smoothly lie to their relatives), but Kerry's button is going to be a good bit colder on average at poll closing.

Memo to DNC and John Kerry: Bush wins the Mommy battle, has already won it. Expect very few debates. Expect a close election, popular vote, expect landslide electoral college win.

Mothers, not women, are going to be in control of the Presidency for a long, long, time.