My Dirty Dozen Debate Highlights...

FROM: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/debatereferee/debate_1013.html

1 – KERRY: "I’ll hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe. But…"

Kerry's "BUT" exposes him as an appeaser.

2 - KERRY: "I have a plan to cover all Americans. We're going to make it affordable and accessible. We're going to let everybody buy into the same health-care plan senators and congressmen give themselves."
SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, would you like to add something?
BUSH: "I would. Thank you. I want to remind people listening tonight that a plan is not a litany of complaints, and a plan is not to lay out programs that you can't pay for. He just said he wants everybody to be able to buy in to the same plan that senators and congressmen get. That costs the government $7,700 per family. If every family in America signed up, like the senator suggested, if would cost us $5 trillion over 10 years."

BUSH EXPOSES THE KERRY HEALTHCARE SHAM.

3 - KERRY: "And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as."

Tasteless, crass demagoguery.

4 - KERRY: "My faith affects everything that I do, in truth. There's a great passage of the Bible that says, 'What does it mean, my brother, to say you have faith if there are no deeds? Faith without works is dead.'"

Kerry actually is GUILTY of that which he charges Bush; Kerry asserts he has faith, and then claims that DEEDS are worth more than faith - YET THEN, KERRY REFUSES to ACT on his own faith, on his own belief that life begins at conception - as when he refused to do the tough DEED of voting for a "Partial Birth Abortion Ban." Kerry's religiousness is PHONY; Kerry's Catholicism is a sham; Kerry's faith is "dead."

5 - KERRY: "Result [of Bush's Pharmaceutical Plan]: $139 billion windfall profit to the drug companies coming out of your pockets. That's a large part of your 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums. "

Even NBC utterly debunked this; in fact the Pharmaceutical companies will make abiout 1% LESS! IN FACT: The 17% Medicare increase in co-pays was mandated by a different law meant to keep Medicare SOLVENT!

6 - KERRY: "Eleven other presidents -- six Democrats and five Republicans -- had wars, had recessions, had great difficulties; none of them lost jobs the way this president has."

FALSE: Unemployment was higher in '84 than in '80 - yet Reagan won reelection because the electorate saw that it WAS morning in America. AND THEN, THERE'S BEEN A "JOB LOSS" ONLY OF W2-FILING PAYROLL JOBS, AND THIS HAS BEEN ONLY 600,000. WHEN ALL JOBS ARE COUNTED, THEN MORE AMERICANS ARE WORING TODAY THAN IN 2000; THAT'S RIGHT: THERE HAVE BEEN NET JOB GAINS WHEN YOU INCLUDE SELF-EMPLOYED PEOPLE.

7 - SCHIEFFER: Let's go to a new question, Mr. President. I got more e-mail this week on this question than any other question. And it is about immigration. I'm told that at least 8,000 people cross our borders illegally every day. Some people believe this is a security issue, as you know. Some believe it's an economic issue. Some see it as a human-rights issue. How do you see it? And what we need to do about it?
[... later, Kerry responded...]

KERRY: "Four thousand people a day are coming across the border."

Kerry doesn't get good grades for listening.

8 - KERRY: "Now, I've proposed adding two active-duty divisions to the Armed Forces of the United States -- one combat, one support. In addition, I'm going to double the number of Special Forces so that we can fight a more effective war on terror, with less pressure on the National Guard and Reserve. And what I would like to do is see the National Guard and Reserve be deployed differently here in our own country. There's much we can do with them with respect to homeland security. We ought to be doing that. And that would relieve an enormous amount of pressure. But the most important thing to relieve the pressure on all of the armed forces is frankly to run a foreign policy that recognizes that America is strongest when we are working with real alliances, when we are sharing the burdens of the world by working through our statesmanship at the highest levels and our diplomacy to bring other nations to our side."

THERE HE GOES, AGAIN! When it comes to defending the USA, Kerry can't keep his "BUT..." out of it! Proving he is at heart an appeasing internationalist - like Chamberlain.

KERRY: "I have never suggested a test where we turn over our security to any nation. In fact, I've said the opposite: I will never turn the security of the United States over to any nation. No nation will ever have a veto over us. But…"

THERE HE GOES AGAIN... AGAIN!

9 - KERRY: "I am a hunter. I'm a gun owner. I've been a hunter since I was a kid, 12, 13 years old. And I respect the Second Amendment and I will not tamper with the Second Amendment. But I'll tell you this...."

ANOTHER "BUT!" It seems that when it comes to self-defense - as well as national defense - Kerry CANNOT seem to commit himself to any UNEQUIVOCAL USE OF FORCE.

10 - KERRY: "This is a president who hasn't met with the Black Congressional Caucus. This is a president who has not met with the civil rights leadership of our country."

A LIE. Period.

11 - When Scheiffer asked what influence the women in their lives had had on them, Bush was sincere, and sweet - he was visibly moved when talking about Laura. Kerry unintentionally revealed himself to be a crass, ambitious, and untrustworthy man when - IN EFFECT - ALL he said about his second wife, the billionaire Teresa Heinz-Kerry - was that she's rich:

BUSH: … "I guess you would say [about his meeting Laura] it was love at first sight."
SCHIEFFER: Senator Kerry?
KERRY: "Well, I guess the president and you and I are three examples of lucky people who married up. And some would say maybe me moreso than others. But I can take it."

12- SUMMARY:

Kerry is a bad man. Kerry has ALWAYS been a dove - soft on defense, cozy to tyrants: (Ho, Fidel, Ortega, Saddam, Kim), and too much a Europhile - like his father. Kerry is an unrepentent statist and Leftist and a liberal who would expand the state's role in the economy and in our lives, and raise taxes to accomplish this. Kerry'd make a terrible president.