Reply #85: Am I the only one who thought Kerry didn't do so great on MTP? [View All]

[Jane Austin]

I thought he started off weak by disputing Russert's election percentages and later he used a poor choice for quoting Pappy Bush on leakers being traitors, in that the quote was about leaking an agent's name.

Of course Timmeh came right back and said that this wasn't about Bush leaking her name, and everybody promptly forgot the punch of Kerry's point.

If you're going to use an example, don't use one that gives any hooks for your adversary to latch onto and use to defuse your argument.

I also don't just think it's swell when he says that he made mistakes, he learned from them, and that they are his mistakes (so he's not going to discuss them with anybody) and he takes "full responsibility" for them. What does that mean?

They may have been his mistakes, but it's our future that is in peril because of those mistakes. It's not all OK now.

Kerry had 30 minutes on a big deal national TV show to state his case, and I though he could have been a lot better.

After MTP, we switched over to C-Span2, where Mark Crispin Miller recounted Kerry's backing away from any hint that election irregularites in Ohio cost him the election.