Posted on 10/01/2004 9:26:12 AM PDT by jjmnolte
Kerry won on style. Bush got the hay.
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2. Kerry didn't seem to know there were already sanctions on Iran.
3. Summit. Summit. Summit. Blah, Blah. Blah.
4. Kerry is opposed to the nuclear bunker busters as though we're the moral equivelant of our enemies. How very 80's of him.
5. Kerry certainly won Kim Jong Il's vote.
6. Kerry wants both bi-lateral AND multi-lateral discussions with North Korea? Sheesh. How about a stand? Sorry, forgot who we're dealing with.
7. Kerry said nuclear proliferation is his greatest fear and opposes missile defense? Uhm, okay.
8. He mis-spoke about the 87 billion dollars? How about, as Bush might put it, he mis-voted? Terrible reponse.
9. Was Iraq a mistake, or wasn't it? He doesn't know. He says both in the same debate. I rub my hands in anticipation of the RNC's commercial on this.
10. No subways were closed during the Republican convention. Duh.
There's little I see for Kerry to work with coming out of this debate in a substantive way. Bush can make hay. Kerry can pump his fist in the air. I'd prefer both but given the choice, I'll take the hay.
How about Kerry's contention that Hussein didn't attack us in the leadup to the war?
BTTT
Kerry kept criticizing us for "outsourcing" the search for OBL in Afghanistan to AF warlords (who BTW have been living and fighting in Tora Bora all their lives) but Kerry then wants to "outsource" the war in Iraq to the Germans and the French.
Hopefully, our talking heads and our commercial writers will make up for this in the next couple of days, but it sure would have been nice if W had taken care of business himself last night.
That's why Bush won. Bush gave nothing except facial expressions to the democrats. Kerry gave us the following words.
global test
eliminate our nuclear program
give nuclear fuel to Iran
Here is what I do not understand:
Iraq was a "mistake" there are no terrorists or threats there.
Then in the same debate:
"Terrorist are pouring over the border"
If terrorists are not in Iraq, then who are the car bombers and people sawing civilians heads off?
This is such an obvious contradiction. Bush needs to ask Kerry who is doing this if not terrorists? the Boy Scouts?
They need to use the sound byte from Kerry talking about Vietnam, "How do you aassk a maan to be the last person to die for a mistake?" then use the sound bye of kerry saying "invading Iraq was a mistake."
(the misspelling is an attempt to write in his phone accent.)
There werw a lot more than 10 mistakes for ketchup boy
a- unilateral action with nk-> good
unilateral action in iraq -> bad
b- last man dieing for a mistake.
c- wrong war wrong time wrong place
and he is going to build a coalition?? good luck
Our big problem is the same as always too many stupid voters.
I was stunned at the punditry's reaction to qerry's craziness.
"10. No subways were closed during the Republican convention."
And everyone in NY knows it.
I believe I heard this on Fox News last week, but I can't remember if it was something that Kerry said recently, or if he actually said it after the end of the first Gulf War. Instead of sending U.S. troops into Iraq to take out Saddam in '91, Kerry believed the job could be done by outsiders (meaning individuals in other countries) and Iraqis who were against Saddam. If I recall correctly, he basically said that he wanted to arm those individuals and have them do the job. But in the case of Tora Bora, he complained that the U.S. "outsourced" the operation by using war lords. In my estimation, this is yet another example of how he contradicts himself over and over.
"Global test" was that Global Smell Test?
Kerry's idea is the same as Michael Moore's; that Iraq before the "occupiers" came was a Disneyland of peaceful bliss, and that terrorists only came there after we did.
Kerry can contend it, but it isn't true. Saddam Hussein's thugs shot at our pilots patrolling the no-fly zones every day. It's a miracle none of them were shot down. This was my primary reason for supporting the war, not some weapons of mass destruction scenario.
He used the word occupier last night. Bet that didn't sit to well with Zell Miller!
Word association:
global, globe, balloon, lead balloon.The reason the "global test" will stick to Kerry is that he comes across as a global trotter too "sophisticated" to put American "rubes" first.
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