Posted on 10/12/2004 7:20:19 AM PDT by jmstein7
The simplest way to win the debate is to tell the truth. demoRATS can't handle the truth that none of their ideas add up or make sense. Bush should pound home the fact that Kerry has proposed $2.2 Trillion in new spending and eliminating the tax cuts for "the rich" leaves a $1.5 Trillion dollar deficit.
Bush needs to rub his head and say.
"Senator exactly which one of your many plans are you refering to?
Another idea is to tell people that the RATS are going to throw the election into choas if it's close and there is one way to avoid it, vote GOP.
Good advice. GW has to take charge of the debate from the first and that means giving Kerry no quarter. He has to attack every one of Kerry's statements, lies, misstatements, positions. He has to use a short, punchy line like: You can run, but you can't hide...which he used to great effect about Kerry's senate record in the last debate. That line drew blood, so much so that Kerry used it in his stump speech the next day.
The MSM's new slur about GW when he's energetic and effective is that he's 'angry' or 'out of control', this along with asides that he's mentally ill, dangerous, are polluting the political discourse. So if possible, GW has to attack with a smile, unless he's talking about defending America from terrorism.
Kerry clearly had the questions in advance in the first debate. He had his answers memorized, for heaven's sake. Even Susan Estrich said he'd gotten them down to under two minutes. The second debate was a total turnaround. He had to think on his feet and couldn't. He's thrown off balance when called to account for his lies and he looks bad. If you noticed his daughter's face when she hugged him after the second debate, she looked griefstricken. Couldn't hide her expression. She knew he'd lost and lost badly. They all knew it.
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With Bob Schieffer of CBS as the moderator tomorrow night, and it being obvious to the Kerry campaign that their candidate plays like cr*p on a level playing field, I am worried that once again effin' might be given a heads up on the questions. We may have been lulled into complacency by the good job that was done by Gwen Ifill and Charles Gibson.
It was a well-reasoned article. I hope it gets seen and used.
Thanks. I try ;-)
Kerry was verging on funny the way he started every response with "This president" or "Because of this president", then blah blah blah.
Honestly, I wanted someone to ask him what he had for lunch, just to hear him start off with "This president...
I was glad he kept at it because it made him look like the downer, negative, pessimistic loser he is.
He sounded like a broken record of doom and gloom. Everything is wrong, etc.
Bush really does need to say something in the same way Reagan did, to set up the listeners to tune into this continual droning on...like "Can my opponant start off with something positive, answering the question directly rather than launching another negative attack at me?"
You have also made a great deal about the War on Terror and the deployment of our American fighting forces around the world to combat terror at its roots in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You have belittled the significant contributions of our allies and friends around the globe, describing the Iraqi actions as the "wrong war at the wrong place and the wrong time".
Yet with all we have asked of our fighting men and women, the long days and months away from friends and family, fighting a war that began in earnest when we were brutally attacked on that September morning, fighting an enemy that knows no rules of war, that obeys no recognized morality other than that the ends justifies the means, that fights from behind women and children and hides in mosques, schools and hospitals; with all that, the vast majority of them want to stay the course.
Now you can call that an endorsement of my proven record as commander in chief, or a rejection of your 30 year record of trashing the military and denying them the tools they need to do their jobs - which is it?
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