A quick post highlighting some comments by Geraghty and others as seen at The Kerry Spot:
If I ever need to sue somebody, I’ll call John Edwards.
If I ever need somebody killed - like, you know, terrorists trying to kill my family - I’ll call Dick Cheney.
My initial conclusion: This was the single most devastating one-sided drubbing since Lloyd Bentsen smacked Dan Quayle all around the stage in 1988.
Will the family of a Veep wannabe, dark suit, dark hair, Dark Side, license # I-S-U-E-U, please come and claim the carcass? Your junior lawyer has been trampled, pummeled, thumped, whupped, sliced, diced, julienned, fried, pureed, laughed out of the county, and has dismayed fellow slimebags across the nation. You may claim the remains, collected in a large number of small baggies, at the BreckTM booth.
NBC's Tom Brokaw: "Dick Cheney Reminded Me Of George Foreman, Kind Of A Slow Gait, But A Powerful Right-Hand When He Unleashed It In A Number Of Areas As He Went After The Kerry-Edwards Ticket."
MSNBC's Ron Reagan: "This Time, I Think The Chattering Classes, And I Include All Of Us Among Them, Will Come Out On The Side Of There Was A Stature Gap There, And It Was To Cheney's Advantage."
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell: "I Think Dick Cheney Did Awfully Well, At, First Of All, Putting John Edwards In His Place. Saying That I Have Been Presiding Over The Senate, And I Didn't Meet You Until Tonight. Talking About His Not Having Been On The Job Was Pretty Devastating."
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: "I Tell You, Tonight, No Doubt About It, Edwards Got Obliterated By Dick Cheney. This Is The Most Surprising Part. This Debate Actually Turned In Cheney's Direction When They Started Talking About Domestic Issues. I Thought Cheney Handled The Foreign Policy Issues Very Well."
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Score: Edwards Won, Cheney Won Half. I listened on the radio to the the debate between Vice President Cheney and contender for the position, Senator John Edwards. A good debate; both did well. I regret to say, I thought Edwards had the momentum in audio. Cheney's attack on Edwards attendance record on the Senate floor was, indeed, powerful and fun for the listener. Nonetheless, Edwards effectively and repeatedly--I did not say justly--attached the word "lie" to President Bush and and Vice President Cheney. Edwards controlled the tort reform issue by introducing a serious note of prudence, while finishing the topic with a persuasive painting of himself as a successful champion of the truly injured. On a related matter, and I have said it for years, Republicans must find a way to own the health care issue. President Bush enumerated important points which appeared to point, generally, to a free market solution during his acceptance speech. This must be developed; Republicans must accept this as genuine problem and not merely a debating point to be countered with citation of a generally rosey picture. This is a serious Republican vulnerability and will worsen which each passing "boomer" year. Cheney did his homework on the Kerry-Edwards legislative record, but sounded dry. Cheney did not gain new ground, in my opinion. And one last small point: it was an error on Cheney's part to admit that he was unaware of the statistic concerning women and AIDs. This politeness will not be credited to him as honesty and gained him nothing. It will be used as a sound bite demonstrating, in the Vice President's own words, that--like the former president, Geo. H. Bush, marvelling at bar coding in a check out line--that this administration is out of touch. In this case it will be used to suggest that Bush-Cheney are unsympathetic to with women, women, women, sick people, AIDS victims, victims of all kinds, people who care about victims, good people, homosexuals, and did I mention, women?
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