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.
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.