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You are absolutely right on. Especially that last part. Kerry "doesn't fall" he doesn't take to humor at all or being on the defense. The last debate showed that. If he can be put on the defense, he's lost.
Sounds like good advice to me. I hope Rove gets it.
Good stuff! I thought I had noticed this pattern in Kerry's answers, but I did not have the talent to put it as consisely as you have.
Bring it on!
Kerry cannot seem to answer any question directly, & Bush should highlight that reality.
Sounds good to me. I hope Carl Rove sees it.
1. on jobs...
When Kerry says Bush has lost jobs, point out that 9/11 cost over 1 million jobs in a month and took billions of dollars out of the economy. Point out that between the inherited recession and 9/11, our economy took a body blow, BUT we have now made back almost all those lost jobs in just 13 months of growth.
2. on jobs II...
point out that Kerry has had his long snout in the public feeding trough his WHOLE adult life - sucking the public teet. HE HAS NEVER CREATED A SINGLE JOB IN HIS LIFE - NOT ONE NOT ANY. He doesn't know what it means to create a job, meet a payroll, pay employees first, etc.
3. jobs III... Kerry talks a good game about outsourcing, but it is ultimately the high cost of lawsuites and beaurocracy that drives jobs to a lower cost place. Kerry's plan would guarantee companies move their WHOLE operation offshore to escape his further regulation. Result: less jobs, not more.
4. everything else... The SINGLE ANSWER to everything else Kerry criticizes Bush on is simple: In more than 20 years, Kerry has don't nothing. No legislation introduced on jobs, partial birth abortion, etc. That which was in his power to do was never done.
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That was the Carter debate, not the Mondale debate.
President Bush can say, "I have a plan" to return this waffler to counting ketchup bottles. John Kerry doesn't belong in the US Senate, let alone trying to lead our country through these perilous times.
Here is the 'Crane Kick' the President should be employing.(As I pointed out a week ago...)
"Senator Kerry and his 527 cohorts have spent 18 months, and 200 million dollars attacking me, without offering any substantive suggestions of their own, so I am guessing that tonight, every response he gives, will just be MORE OF THE SAME"
Stealing Kerrys little focus grouped phrase, and making it toxic, makes it doubly sweet.
Bush could turn that into the "There you go again" of 2004.
All Bush has to do is warn anyone watching the debate to watch out for the word "but" coming from Kerry. Kerry says one thing and always says "but" when changing the subject or justifying his opposite viewpoint.
Once Bush says to watch for the word "but" Kerry will be thrown off his stride because he cannot answer questions without using the modifier to adjust (read change) his position.
In response to your request for a proof read, please note: "Anything less with threaten the very foundation of our country." Replace "with" with "will".
And, great job on the article. Now that you have done something as well as this, how about some input on Edwards' idea of putting lawyers in charge of lawyers (three strikes and you can no longer file bogus lawsuits). With your credentials, maybe you can get some movement on this dumb idea.
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You are so right, all Kerry does is attack, never answers a questions, and bores us with his arrogant, elitist rhetoric.
One thing I find so disturbing is Bush's "new tone" garbage, well new tones and nice guy doesn't smack the ball out of the park right into Kerry's botoxed forehead.
I'm tired of seeing Bush slammed at every question. I'm hate the fact that these debates are being moderated by a bunch of democrat hacks, particularly that set-up last question to Bush in the debate last week about listing his mistakes. Talk about feeding into what the liberal press has wanted for Kerry , Bush to admit mistakes, and Bush's answer was the pits.
My advice for what it is worth, if for the President to be himself, treat Kerry like he is a nuisance and just tell it like it is in his own manner.
And, finally, ask that pompous stiff bones Kerry " Got Wood ?".
I think the President should early and often say "my opponent keeps saying he has a plan, but he never says what it is. I'm telling you what I'll do--everybody knows who I am and what I want to do--but my opponent can only bring himself to say 'the President is wrong, and I have a plan.' It's disrespectful to you in the audience, here and at home, to just say he has a plan. It's disrespectful of the Senator to have these plans written for him but never learn what they are. I'm sure someone has written him a detailed plan, it's too bad he won't tell any of us, here, about it."
"This is supposed to be a debate, but it's hard to do that when one fella tells you what he plans to do and the other one won't say anything but 'I have a plan.'"
Wonderful! I hope 'they' read and listen. When the Swift Boat Vets began their ads you could see Kerry actually disintegrate. He was virtually spinning out of control. I told my husband then that the pressure and criticism should be kept on.....John Kerry has a superego and cannot survive his personna being 'attacked'. He is vulnerable...very vulnerable and if President Bush wants to save this nation he will do what he has to in order to be reelected. This is a war ever bit as vital as the war against terrorism.