My problem isn't that this will turn the election; it's that it won't. I agree with Bill Kristol that Bush could have landed a knockout blow against Kerry tonight and locked the election up.
But I think Bush did what he needed to do. He didn't drool, or shout obscenities, or call Kerry a "big poopyhead." I think it was a draw, but that's OK for Bush.
DRAW. Nobody changed their minds tonight.
DRAW. Nobody changed their minds tonight.
There is NO ABILITY to hit the MSM's Communist candidate with a knock-out blow - any moreso than he will in the 2nd or 3rd debates!
The only thing Bush has the ability to do better (because you can't change the truth, and it's on Bush's side, that is why he's COMFORTABLY striding through this campaign) is FRAME the TRUTH so that Kerry can't STEAL it, like he did tonight.
But Bush pointed out 3 or 4 idiotic mistruths that are fact in JFnK's little hash-hazed world.
1)Wrong war, treatment of allies and 'yes before I said no'
2)Declare the Peace 'Summit' ain't gonna fly with real Americans
3)NK and multilateral talks versus SURRENDERING LIKE CLINTON DID TO THE COMMUNISTS IN BILATERAL giveaway talks.
4)Kyoto - anyone with a brain knows WHY Kyoto got DRUMMED OUT OF THE SENATE...
I could go on and on...
I think that the public right now might be starstruck by Kerry's command of the debate stage, but that in two days they will be back to not trusting the creep.
They'll stick with the Commander in Chief that they have.
Its still a LOCK.