|
I understand people wanting to hammer home the point that Kerry beat Bush on Thursday night to make sure it's established so the right doesn't try to flip it as they did w/ Gore at the first debate, but there is another debate next Friday between the two, and after watching Scarborough... I wonder if this is their trick now. Before the first debate, it was all about lowering expectations. It's pretty clear many Republicans threw in the towel and are hammering him, and if chimp just shows up and maintains a straight face, they'll call it a miraculous rebound and "this is the real George Bush that came out tonight."
It may be wise by Monday to start adopting some of the right's excuses for Bush being tired and reinforce the meme that Bush has never lost a series of debates and that he can be expected to come back strong. It's important to start raising expectations for * so he isn't pitied, imo.
|