There they go

[erikred]

I watched the debate tonight and came away thinking that Kerry had done a good job of defining his position and pointing out glaring errors in Bush's policies. I thought that Bush did a fine job of hitting his talking points, but since they mostly centered on Kerry's inability to define himself, they sounded pretty flat to me.

Now how the heck, I thought, will the GOP spin this into a victory? The answer? Easily!

I just watched Rudolph Giuliani on the Daily Show, and he stated, verbatim, the same talking points Bush spoke during the debate. The GOP's strategy? Pretend the debates never happened, and just keep hitting those talking points. If they say it's so enough times, maybe the American people will buy it! What the hell, it's been working so far.

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[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

Cuz of course people can't actually agree with them! ;)

[tagryn]

"on the condition that the Pres. would build a strong coalition, would plan the war carefully, and would only go to war as a last resort"

Maybe that's what Kerry thought he was voting for, but that's not what
the actual resolution was.

I personally found Kerry's proposals about giving Iran nuclear material and abandoning multilateral talks with NK much more disturbing. The former makes it seem like Kerry places much more faith in sanctions as a deterrent than recent history in NK/Serbia/Iraq shows they merit, and the latter would leave the Chinese and Russians off the hook in their responsibility to help us resolve the NK problem, and would probably result in the very kind of unilateral action which so many anti-Bush folks abhor right now.