Bush Wins 3rd Debate

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

How can any person claim Kerry won the debate?  Were you even watching the same debate I was?  I have to wonder, because nothing I saw tonight made me nervous that Bush had been burned.

The Cheney's daughter bit was the gaffe of these debates, by the way.  That's all we're going to hear about for the rest of the week.

I watched, and I thought George Bush was absolutely terrible.  He kept rambling about "educating" people, he seemed to think everything was funny, and he rarely addressed the actual question asked.  I really thought this was his worst performance.  It would have been more of a blowout if only Kerry hadn't been almost as bad. 

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

He was hardly rambling.  He was talking about building a foundation for long term prosperity and retraining workers to be able to compete in high tech jobs.

But he talked about like six times when it was probably only relevant once.  He claimed that NCLB would "educate" workers who had lost their jobs to outsourcing.  He talked about "educating" instead of addressing the minimum wage.   He seemed to have no solutions beyond "educating" people no matter what the problem.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Education is Bush's strongest issue.  He feels more passionately about it than any other.  Of course he thinks its a near cure-all.  If it were me, I'd have brought terrorism up for half the economy questions, because I think anyone who expects a strong economy without defeating terrorism has their head up their @$$.  Repeating the refrain doesn't weaken the point, it reinforces the point.

OK, but in this context it made him look like he didn't have answers to any other issues.

But the generally juvenile way he acted I thought was a much bigger minus anyway.