Posted on 10/03/2004 3:07:34 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Just announced on CNN.
I sure hope the Christian Coalition gets out the vote this time!
Well I guess if I'm going to be accused of backing away from a wager, I should REALLY back away. So... you can take your wager and put it where the sun don't shine!
Is that why Kerry has the support of 49% of the voters, according to the latest Gallup poll? That's what I find most disturbing. Considering all that we know about John Kerry -- the exaggeration of his service record, his behavior after he returned from Vietnam and his stabbing of his fellow service men there in the back, his 20 years of liberal Senate voting including his failure to defend this nation by opposing all of the weapons systems that have made the difference in Afghanistan and Iraq, and all the lies...and he still has about half the nation's support. This poll (if it's valid...and it may not be; it could be an outlier) says more about the inability of the American people to tell a phony when they're presented with one than it does about the effectiveness of Kerry's debating style.
2000 Redux? Who knows - and what's telling is Kerry still cannot break 50% after a debate every one thought he won.
Then let's wait to see what the individual state polls show this week. You've stated (many times) on this thread that we can expect Kerry to have regained the lead in Wisc. and Iowa, and yet you have nothing to show that this is the case. Face it...you're a disrupter. I spit on your posts.
What most amazed me is how he let himself be placed on the defensive. Yes, Lehrer asked biased questions--To Kerry "What mistakes has Bush made?"; To Bush "What mistakes have you made?"
Even conceding that, Bush performed poorly. The very first question was his chance to smash Kerry. To permit Kerry to claim he would do a better job of keeping the nation safe after his 18 years in the Senate is just unacceptable. Bush should have nailed him on his votes to decrease intelligence funding, and he should have nailed him on his mist votes and Senate Intelligence Committee meetings.
Bush should have made clear that the man debating him him--the man telling us he could make us safer--was part of the problem and part of the reason why we weren't safe on 9-11 and not safe now.
Instead, Bush started off on the "hard work" line he parrotted all frigging night. Look, I agree with him. I agreed with him the first and last times he said it and all the times in between. What I wanted to hear him give were specific reasons why--beyond the flip-flopping--Kerry isn't up to the job.
I really think that the Bush campaign has gotten just about all it's going to get out of the flip-flopping stuff. It's pretty much already incorporated in Kerry's low support. Bush can keep hitting him on that while at the same time opening a new line of attack--Kerry is a kept-man, an effete, pseudo-intellectual lazy ass who misses important votes and committee meetings and wants to cozy up to terrorists.
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Bush did not have a good night. I expect him to be far better in the second and third debates.
If you really believed in what you said, you would take my bet. Oh well.
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