10.14.2004
Bush/Kerry III After-reports
Debate Transcript.
Alexander K. McClure of Polipundit: However the President really did well tonight. He was focused, informative, and charming while driving home the point that his opponent is a Massachusetts liberal. His opponent, on whom the pressure was on to win the debate, was not as good as he was in the first debate or even the second debate.
Mark Steyn: VERDICT: BUSH: If he'd been like this in the first debate, we'd be in 42-state blowout territory.
Memo to Kerry: When you're asked about your wife, don't talk about your mother. And isn't there something weird about your mother on her deathbed feeling the need to remind you about integrity?
David Broder, WaPo wonk: Reprising policy battles that Republicans and Democrats have contested for decades, President Bush and challenger John F. Kerry sharpened their differences on social and domestic issues last night, with each candidate comfortably articulating the positions his most loyal supporters wanted to hear.
Dick Morris: So despite Bush's able performance last night, Kerry had the edge because the subject matter was overwhelmingly Democratic. When candidates from each party speak fervently about improving health care, the Democrat almost always wins because of the partisan skew of the issue. When jobs are at issue, we trust Democrats; when the topic is Social Security or retirement, the legacy of FDR assures the Democrat of the advantage.
The Arizona Republic: Bush's comment about God and freedom was a point about Iraq, certainly. But it also fairly describes Bush's view of undocumented immigrants in this country, the one position expressed by the president that recalled the "compassionate conservatism" of his 2000 campaign.
In contrast, Kerry's view of conditions on the American ground is grim. There seems to be nothing that Bush cannot be blamed for in John Kerry's world.
Kerry's vision of America as expressed in the debate is one of oppression and victimization. His assessment that there are public schools for those "who have" and schools for those who "do not have" is a judgment seemingly buried in pre-Brown vs. Board of Education. Is there no room for acknowledgment of any good thing?
Hugh Hewitt: Bush wins because of the faith question, the gay marriage question and the emphasis on education and Kerry's Global test. Kerry strong on jobs and health care, but weak on connecting with people. [Debate Moderator Bob] Shieffer probably doesn't even know how in the tank he was, a product of the deep, deep bias at CBS and MSM generally.
Debate Transcript.
Alexander K. McClure of Polipundit: However the President really did well tonight. He was focused, informative, and charming while driving home the point that his opponent is a Massachusetts liberal. His opponent, on whom the pressure was on to win the debate, was not as good as he was in the first debate or even the second debate.
Mark Steyn: VERDICT: BUSH: If he'd been like this in the first debate, we'd be in 42-state blowout territory.
Memo to Kerry: When you're asked about your wife, don't talk about your mother. And isn't there something weird about your mother on her deathbed feeling the need to remind you about integrity?
David Broder, WaPo wonk: Reprising policy battles that Republicans and Democrats have contested for decades, President Bush and challenger John F. Kerry sharpened their differences on social and domestic issues last night, with each candidate comfortably articulating the positions his most loyal supporters wanted to hear.
Dick Morris: So despite Bush's able performance last night, Kerry had the edge because the subject matter was overwhelmingly Democratic. When candidates from each party speak fervently about improving health care, the Democrat almost always wins because of the partisan skew of the issue. When jobs are at issue, we trust Democrats; when the topic is Social Security or retirement, the legacy of FDR assures the Democrat of the advantage.
The Arizona Republic: Bush's comment about God and freedom was a point about Iraq, certainly. But it also fairly describes Bush's view of undocumented immigrants in this country, the one position expressed by the president that recalled the "compassionate conservatism" of his 2000 campaign.
In contrast, Kerry's view of conditions on the American ground is grim. There seems to be nothing that Bush cannot be blamed for in John Kerry's world.
Kerry's vision of America as expressed in the debate is one of oppression and victimization. His assessment that there are public schools for those "who have" and schools for those who "do not have" is a judgment seemingly buried in pre-Brown vs. Board of Education. Is there no room for acknowledgment of any good thing?
Hugh Hewitt: Bush wins because of the faith question, the gay marriage question and the emphasis on education and Kerry's Global test. Kerry strong on jobs and health care, but weak on connecting with people. [Debate Moderator Bob] Shieffer probably doesn't even know how in the tank he was, a product of the deep, deep bias at CBS and MSM generally.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 4:40 AM 
