Terrye

Yes very true about the effects of the post debate. When Al Gore actually won the debate but conventional wisdom said he didn’t Al Gore allowed it to effect his game plan. I guess that is why I find the last couple of days a little off putting. I suspect Bush won’t do like Al because he is more self confident about who he is.

What did Bush do different? I mean he was who he always is, an inconsistent speaker with his heart in the right place. Are people going to say Oh my God, I just realized the man is incompetent! Or as I suspect are they are going to be pulling for him the next time and rejoice when he succeeds. Bush needs to have another “rise to the occasion moment” and guess what? He will have that chance and do so in a way that delivers as needed.

Sometimes I think the Hugh Grant bumbling aspect of Dubya causes normal salt of the earth people to relate. It inspires those supporters with superior verbal skills to pull for him, especially when the likeability factor is considered. To many this all may sound like wishful thinking, and it would be for others but not Dubya. It is not for him because that is the pattern and history what we have to go on.

Kerry wrongly talked of the “Last man to die for a mistake”. Likewise there is not one “Last mistake Bush must die for” either.