At the Weekly Standard Mike Murphy predicts, no reminds us, that on Friday morning the mainstream will report that the presidential race is tightening:
The media's Kerry comeback will unfold in earnest after this Thursday's debate. What actually happens in the debate, barring a highly entertaining Tourette's style meltdown by one of the candidates, really doesn't matter.
Murphy calls the decision to bet the entire Kerry campaign on a debate over the Iraq war, a strategic suicide note.
Kerry's mistake is that it is impossible to have a serious campaign-winning political victory over the administration without a serious policy difference between the two. Howard Dean had a policy difference with the Bush administration on Iraq; Kerry essentially does not.
All his squirming and wiggling aside, Kerry essentially supported the war. Quibbling over details and promising to deliver a world where large French and German forces cheerfully deploy to Iraq and take daily causalities in the place of American troops is campaign silly talk...
Silly talk indeed.
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