Posted on 11/03/2004 5:09:18 AM PST by OESY
Most pivotal event (if Bush wins). Kerry's lackluster convention speech. Devoid of both style and substance....
Most pivotal event (if Kerry wins). The first debate. Kerry got a second chance after all, and he used it to great advantage....
Best strategic move. Kerry's decision in the primaries to focus all his attention and resources on Iowa....
Most effective lame insult. "He looks French."... By letting it get to him, Kerry ensured... the... label would stick.
Worst hypocrisy. The Kerry camp's attacks on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Kerry not only made his Vietnam service the centerpiece of his early campaign but deployed it as a shield from criticism of his national-security record....
Worst lack of preparation. Bush's failure, during the second debate, to answer a question about what mistakes he's made....
Worst flip-flop. "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before...."
Best recovery from a flip-flop.... Kerry's rejoinder was masterful: "I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq....
Worst flip-flop following a recovery from a flip-flop. Immediately afterward, moderator Jim Lehrer asked Kerry, "Are Americans dying in Iraq for a mistake?" Kerry said no -- thereby contradicting in record time his assertion that "the president made a mistake in invading Iraq."
Smoothest appeal to prejudice. In the vice presidential debate, John Edwards answered a question about same-sex marriage by invoking Dick Cheney's family....
Clumsiest appeal to prejudice. In his third debate, Kerry tried to repeat Edwards's trick....
Worst media hit job. CBS's story on Bush's National Guard records....
Worst October surprise. On the eve of the Spanish election, al Qaeda blew up a train in Madrid; before Australians voted, their embassy in Jakarta was hit. And all we got was a lousy videotape?....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
The worst part was thas darn exit polls along with Zogby's predictions based on those lame polls.
I completely disagree. The question was, and was meant to be, a trap. Answer it honestly and the liberal media will spend months preaching about Mr. Bush's admitted mistakes.
As it was, Kerry's whole campaign was to dream up and allege Bush "mistakes" and "blunders."
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