Debate 2: Kerry shows his stripes.
While I know that Big Media is calling this a Kerry win, by Sunday it will be a Kerry loss. Why do I say this, well lets look at the quotes.

Kerry said that if he had to pick a Supreme Court justice, "I want to make sure we have judges who interpret the Constitution of the United States according to the law."

Excuse me, The Constitution is the LAW of the land. All other laws are made to conform to it, not the other way around.

Asked about abortion, Kerry, who supports a woman's right to have an abortion, noted that he as a Roman Catholic but said he could not let his faith influence
his decision. In a long, rambling answer, he said the United States should not bar the use of federal money for family planning programs overseas.
Referring to Kerry's answer, Bush said, "I'm trying to decipher that." Confronting the question directly, he said, "We're not going to spend federal money on abortion."

Bush has it right, abortion is not a federal issue. Therefore, it is not to be federally funded.

Bush also set to lay to rest persistent rumors that the war in Iraq would require the nation to return to a military draft. "We're not going to have a draft. Period,"
the president said.

This also put to lie, Kerry's and the Democrats main talking point for the last two weeks.

"We did something that you don't know how to do," Kerry told Bush. "We balanced the budget. And we paid down the debt of our nation for two years in a row and
we created 23 million new jobs at the same time." He accused Bush of driving up the biggest deficits in history.

Of which Kerry had nothing to do with period. In the next couple of days, it will come out that Kerry voted against balancing the budget and against job creation.
Both were part of the 1994 Republican "Contract with America" and followed up by Republican congressional efforts to present day. The other
negative is that Kerry has not accounted for funding needed to cover his promises of increases in spending by his administration.

If the republicans do this right, you can say "good night, Kerry" to paraphrase George Burns.


- posted by Mike @ 10:31 PM