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To: Road Walker who wrote (204771)	10/3/2004 7:18:36 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586981

he called the "Kerry doctrine" as a dangerous outsourcing of America's security, His GOP spin is going to come back and bite him in the behind. The idea that US actions abroad should make sense to other liberal democracies makes sense to me. In general, its preferable to have the rest of the free world (Brazil? Denmark? Japan? Canada?) understand and support your policies than disagree with and oppose your policies. George is spinning this concept Kerry promoted in the debate, and the voters are going to see through it. Elroy

To: Road Walker who wrote (204771)	10/3/2004 9:04:58 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586981

"but he can't count on a repeat of the smirk debacle." I suspect Smirk will be more disciplined with the cut aways next time. I am surprised that the administration isn't howling over that violation of the rules, though... What he can't do much about is bringing 30 minutes of material to last 90 minutes. If nothing else, the next ones are going to be worse because he has a lot less material to draw from. Without totally fabricating stuff, which RoveCo is certainly able to do. I would guess the plan for the domestic issues debate will be to go on the attack and try to keep Kerry off-balance if not actually flustered. Keeping Kerry responding instead of pressing on the issues would seem to be a good strategy. Stick to themes and try to shape the perception of everything Kerry says. I can't imagine what the strategy for the open forum debate will be. Given that there isn't a central topic, it puts Bush in dangerous waters because it is that much harder to come up with 3 or 4 catch phrases that covers everything. Unless, of course, he actually does have a radio in his ear. Maybe the Democrats need to equip Kerry with a short range jamming device... Bush came across as a sock puppet. Lehrer would ask a question, the string was pulled and a phrase popped out. If it happened to have matched the question, so much the better.