Mary Beth had to defend the indefensible and she knew it. Kerry's remarks about Cheney's daughter were gutter tactics and nobody mistook them for anything else. And for a woman to have to defend it...that really hurt. If you watch the clip where Kerry brings her up by name, you can almost see his thoughts, 'Oh, God, what did I just say! Well, I have to finish, but I could kick myself.'
Look how pissed McAwful is...Bush CLEARLY WON!
If you watch the clip where Kerry brings her up by name, you can almost see his thoughts, 'Oh, God, what did I just say! Well, I have to finish, but I could kick myself.'
EXACTLY! You could see him pause when he said, "she is a.... (at this point he recognized that he was screwed because his lead-in left him nowhere else to go)...(visible sigh)..lesbian". At which point, he knew he'd unalterably stepped in it.
Great debater? Ha! A man who knows all the nuances of debate, but makes fatal errors in revealing his severely-flawed inner nature is not a "great" debater.