No way mon. Kerry gave the RNC the "Global Test" ticking bomb which will come back over and over to haunt him.
Bush gave Kerry and the DNC....what??. Nothin, nada.
Kerry never laid a glove on Bush. How could he? If you listened closely and followed his arguments....they made no sense.
All this talk of style vs substance is intellectual parlour games, IMHO.
I'll take one "global test" for 1,000 shots of Bush cringing and a thousand other "missed opportunities." Kerry, the MSM, and the collected poodles have had nothing to use except a claim to a "win" and some screen shots that won't change any minds, and that reflect just as much on the object of those expressions as the man who made them.
The Little Senator tried his best to trip up the President. Look for more of the same, plus a little, but not much, more aggression from the President.
You're right--Bush didn't say anything phenomenally stupid like Kerry did. Yet he looked and sounded so dumb...
In any case, he appears to have survived. In my own personal reckoning, I'm taking Florida off the board today, as we have perhaps the fifth poll out of sixth showing him up by three or more.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who is still voting for Bush after last week's performance will be voting for him no matter how badly he does or how stupid he looks in the future.