The post-debate spins are impressive. I appreciated Dennis Prager's thoughtful insights about why Kerry could get away with his self-contradictory statements. An excerpt:
I believe that this debate can lead to only one conclusion: Either John Kerry is a man of few principles who will say almost anything on the most vital
issues of life and death in order to get elected; or he is personally so
confused on this issue that he will repeatedly make self-contradictory
statements.
There is no other explanation for this unassailable fact: John Kerry won the debate because he sounded better; and he sounded better in large measure because he got away with saying whatever any voter wanted to hear.
That is one reason President Bush looked so annoyed at times. It is very hard for the principled to listen to the unprincipled.
Read the rest of the column.
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