LET'S VOTE

Well thankfully, mercifully it’s over. I’ll bet there are still some self-serving boneheads somewhere offering themselves up to pollsters as “undecided” voters. I think this group ought to be referred to as “people too stupid to be allowed to vote.”

I didn’t think it possible but Schieffer was more in the tank for Kerry than Lehrer. For example, Schieffer and Kerry were the only ones laughing at Kerry’s jokes. W got him with a sarcastic remark about the credibility of news agencies. Schieffer’s questions were clearly designed set the ball on a tee for Kerry to hit out of the park. Bush again got all the high hard ones. This made Bush’s clear victory even more impressive that he handled both Kerry and Schieffer. Tonight just confirmed what we know, the mainstream media are openly rooting for and helping Kerry. The good news is that tonight might accelerate their decline into oblivion.

The take-away lines from tonight:

John Kerry was again forced to defend his “global test” comment from the first debate that he “won” so handily and sounded absurd in the process, saying he would never have the “global test” he advocated in the first debate. First rule of digging your self into a hole – stop digging. Tonight Kerry called in a backhoe to dig deeper. While saying he never had any “global test” he talked about “truth standards”. What is that? What are Saddam Hussein’s truth standards? What are Koffi Annan, French, German, and Russian - give us money from the oil for food program and we’ll shut down the Security Council – truth standards? Or is it the hate America first truth standard where we can trust the Saddam, the UN, French and Germans but not an American President? Rove will zero in on this. But lets face it it’s less than 20 days until the election and there are so many targets out there that there’s not enough time to engage them all. You have to shoot the biggest bulls.

Is anyone else tired of hearing Kerry drone, “I have a plan.” His plans seem to consist solely of saying he has a plan. Granted, two minutes isn’t much time to detail a “plan” but it is tiresome to hear over and over, “I have a plan.” It’s like being at the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The moderator says, “Senator Kerry, you have 90 seconds.” and everyone in theater yells in unison, “I have a plan.” President Bush mastered the sound bite nature of Presidential debates when he noted that a of list complaints is not a plan.

After the president noted Kerry’s liberal voting record, Kerry says, “Anyone can play with votes.” That response is only slightly better than “I actually voted for it before I voted against it.” The president had none of it and successfully hung the liberal millstone around Kerry’s pencil thin neck noting votes for increased taxes and busting spending caps while voting against tax cuts. The coup de grace was when Bush noted that Ted Kennedy was the conservative senator from Massachusetts.

Did anyone think it odd that Kerry was talking about iris scanners and thumb prints to stop illegal immigration? How does that work senator? Do all of the illegals line up at the border crossing to be finger printed? If they did would they still be illegals? Bush noted he was not for amnesty but that Kerry voted for amnesty for illegals in 2003.

Assault weapons question got Bush a bit tangled up. Started off poorly but recovered by saying the way to reduce gun crime is put criminals in jail. Kerry shows his liberal credentials again by advocating gun bans and comes off phony as Pam Anderson’s breasts when talks about being a hunter. I wish the president would have said, “Assault weapons? Depends on who has them. Criminals – bad, honest law-abiding citizens - good. Bob, do think those dads at Beslan wish they’d had an assault weapon or two to protect their children? Do you think a responsible teacher or two at Columbine High School with assault weapons would have been a bad thing on that tragic day? Given what we know about Beslan, do you think it would be a bad idea for responsible NRA trained adults to start looking over our schools?”

Last, if you didn’t know it, Dick Cheney’s daughter Mary is a lesbian. Edwards mentioned it and Kerry brought it up tonight for no apparent reason. Or was there? Are Kerry and Edwards trying to peal away some conservative voters by noting the VP’s daughter’s sexuality? I’d like to see Mary step up and say something along the lines of, “If Senator Kerry wants to make my sexuality an issue in this race then I’d like to make his gigolo status an issue. What kind of craven pathetic excuse for a man dumps his multi-millionaire first wife and mother of his children for the wife a dead senate colleague who is worth billions – a woman who has such low regard for Kerry that she refuses drop the name of her long dead first husband?”