Posted on 10/14/2004 6:24:03 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
That's my boy. That's my Bush. He a hoss — a debatin' hoss. Last night, he was flat-out marvelous in debate. I said, following the second debate, that he had done well, but not his best. (Who does his best all the time? That's why we call it "best.") Last night, he did his best — and his best is superb. And I say this as an analyst, not a Bush partisan.
Regular readers will trust me on this, I believe.
The president was relaxed, informed, commanding, thoughtful, forceful, humorous — the whole array. Sometimes people ask me, "What do you see in him?" (They particularly ask this after a stumbling performance.) Well, that's what I see in him — the Bush who fully emerged on October 13 is what I see.
Look, if the country saw him last night and still wants to fire him — they really don't want him. What a lot of us have asked is that Bush give it his best shot. This was his best shot. I have kind of an absurd pride in him. I'm sort of bursting. If he loses, it won't be his shame; it'll be the country's.
(It's so great not to be a politician — you can say what you think.)
Friends, I'm going to give you some notes, in the order — rough order — in which I wrote them. Then I'll be back (so to speak) for some general comments.
Kerry looks relaxed. Glad to be there. Eager to get going. Uh-oh.
His thank-yous, to everyone and his brother, are a little too confident. A little smug. Almost cocky. You know: "I got all the time in the world, I'm going to clean up in this debate, let me just thank for about five minutes."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Yep Bush kicked so much butt the DNC had to jimmy the numbers to get a win in the online polls. Check this for obvious.
Yep, you can see he won The DNC had to jimmy the poll results to get a "Kerry win" story. Check this
Go to the MSNBC "Debate" poll, Look at the number of responses since last night. Between 10pm CST last night and 8am cst today
1,167,339????? OBVIOUSLY someone jimmied the numbers. That is more people then WATCH MSNBC overnight!
Then check out this curious fact. CNN showed almost exactly the OPPOSITE result at 12 mindnight CST yet this morning that poll is PULLED from the CNN website. However, CNN IS hyping their "SNAP poll" which shows a Kerry win but could of ONLY been conducted ON the WEST Coast since the time frame after the debate would not allow polling anywhere else in the country.
Yep, Journalistic Fraud, all the way around.
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Got that right.
Dan
He is dangerous and I hope people are starting to realize that.
I agree, but then again it seems as though I watch the wrong debate last night looking and listening to places other than FR
Aren't htose almost the same exact numbers they have shown every time?
I agree with you 100% as far as Kerry goes doesn't he ever get tired of that same old line he's been saying in the 3 debats: NOW I HAVE A PLAN?
Great conclusion:
Some of our critics are taunting us with, "Bush is going to lose, ha, ha, ha. Face up to reality, NRO boys, Kool-Aid drinkers." All that. Frankly, I don't talk much about who will win. I talk about who should win. What the people do is their business. I'm not all that worshipful of the people, frankly. This is part of the joy of not being a politician. This is the people that voted for Clinton twice; that excused him and reviled Ken Starr; that howled for Elián González to be shipped back to Cuba; that gave Al Gore more votes; that has tolerated abortion on demand for 30 years; that embraces a popular culture of raw sewage.
I don't know what the American people will do on Nov. 2. But I know what I'll do. I'll pull the lever for George W., with a full and grateful heart.
Totally agree, couldn't have said it better.
Dan
Absolutely.
We can be like England and toss away Churchill, or we can be Americans and re-elect Lincoln.
Ha ha! Bush kicked some bony butt and ol' skeletor stunk up the room last night in the debate. I think of Kerry as an old skull rattling around on top of a broom stick. Whenever some Dem special interest wants to express the Dim point of voice, they say, let's see what Mr. Bones says, then they shake the stick and make the jaw rattle and throw their voice: "Yes, I believe that religion is important, as is choice... Remember Tora Bora!"
This was a great column!! Thanks for posting it.
Why does THIS have to be the debate I was unable to see! ARRGH! Does anyone have a link to a place I can see this online? Please?
We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.
If the Constitution gave us rights, then it could take them away. That is the exact opposite of what our Founders said. I was yelling at the TV everytime Kerry said or implied that the government gave us rights.
http://www.c-span.org/
C-Span will likely replay it again as well.
He's still wrong. The Constitution does not give us rights, it secures pre-existing rights from government interference.
Tell that to skerry, he's the one with the problem.
Lincoln? Churchill? You are kidding, right?
So what! .. General Custer had a plan...
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