Posted on 09/30/2004 9:32:20 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Edited on 09/30/2004 9:53:00 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The most obvious theme of Kerry's campaign needs to be hammered into the American people's minds over and over. In all topics, foreign and domestic, Kerry campaigns as if 9/11 never occurred.
As a small business-owner of a retail company specializing in what most would consider a luxury, there has been a huge post 9/11 slow down.
A preemptive strike in Iraq was necessary because everyone (including the Senator) believed Saddam to have weapons and in no way would the American people stand by and wait to see. Deficits are a product of war.
Are we better off now than we were 4 years ago? Hell no we aren't. None of us are. We lost 3000 fellow Americans in an attack on this country that will take a generation or two to heal. But we are healing. From our individual fears to financial and economic recovery, we are healing.
The ramifications across the board are enormous and to try and pretend that the President misled or had "more diplomatic" alternatives is insane.
9/11 does not belong to just those who lost loved ones. It belongs to all of us and President Bush needs a clear and repetitive message stating such.
Someone here with the clout or connection needs to get this message to the RNC. What an average American like me needs and wants to hear is the acknowledgement of the simple truth.
Some men are born to a time and place when tough decisions...sometimes unpopular decisions become their destiny. True leaders face such challenges with courage and conviction...never wavering...never lamenting "why me" but encouraging the rest of us by their steadfastness, faith and heart.
President Bush...please ask the Senator in your next debate how can he possibly and so deceivingly address topic after topic as if the national tragedy of September 11 never occurred.
God I wish I could debate a Kerry supporter on national TV. How I would love to expose this pathological, histrionic, narcissist as the fraud he is.
I am a huge Bush supporter, but even I admit Kerry was the winner in my view, to the extent that I didn't feel repulsion at the thought of him being POTUS. NOT a good thing as one can imagine the effect he would have on independents/soft pubbies.
Kerry looked "presidential" and
Bush looked nervous and exasperated, but he held his ground. It was a chance missed to put Kerry away, and they didn't but Kerry had been well-coached and he was constantly on the offensive...the influence of Carville and Begala no doubt.
Bush didn't blow the debate tonight and Kerry is already being outted for all the lies he told tonight
Relax .. it will be ok .. and try not to go over the edge so much :0)
And then there is that "Global Test" thingie that Bush knocked out of the park.
I think the problem with our perspective is that alot of us wanted Bush to eviscerate the bastard and finish him off. However Lurch has conveniently given the Republican machine the weapons and sound bites to destroy him with.
You want someone to debate terrorists? Then vote for Kerry..
You want someone to kill terrorists, vote for Dubya.
In this debate Kerry could not change the "majority" of voters perception that he is flip floper and thus he failed the big test.
Watching MSNBC, and I think Joe and Ron should just go out back and do it, and get it over with. They are getting creepy.
"I didn't feel repulsion"
I am not with you on that one at all. I just kept saying "I cannot imagine that thing for four years and I can't believe anyone else could either."
All the Republicans need to do is bring up everything Senator Kerry has said in the last ten years and people will be just as confused about just what Kerry actually stands for. 
And Kerry's suggestion of actually implying we sell nuclear fuel to Iran is sheer lunacy, that's to be sure. 
You mean those "unpaid" advisers from CNN? They "don't hardly do nothin' at all for the campaign"; just ask them.
That will be taken care of in ads the next few weeks.. Funniest part is, Kerry won tonight, and he's still gonna lose ground on national security once Rove gets done shoving the Global Test up his ass..lmao
Seems that Kerry like Gore would came over as an antagonist.
We're all relieved. Well, all of us who are willing to admit that Bush turned in a majorly lackluster performance. I want to forget tonight ever happened.
But I'm hearing Guliani speak tomorrow, so that should cheer me up!
Exactly. That's what you have surrogates in a campaign for. President Bush sought to stay presidential tonight. Mission Accomplished. As for Kerry's gaffes, people will pick up on them over the next few days and his poll numbers will start to go down to where they were before. To put it differently, if Kerry wanted to become President, he had to put President Bush away tonight. If he didn't get it done now, its not likely to happen in the subsequent debates. When you're behind you have a mountain to climb. The only way Bush loses the election now if he says something incredibly stupid or is caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. For Kerry, the object now is not to win but to avoid a humiliating loss in November.
So, most conclude that Kerry is a superior debater, but they still want GW as president? Works for me.
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