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October 01, 2004
Kerry vs. Bush: The Debate Continues
Justin Raimondo thinks Kerry cleaned Bush's clock in the debate last night. On the other hand, he clearly understands that "[a]nyone looking for Kerry as some sort of antiwar hero, someone who challenges the interventionist consensus, is in for a big disappointment."
Raimondo concludes:
Kerry beat the tar out of the President of the United States, and that was a grand sight to see. But if and when he gets into the Oval Office, it will be Kerry's War – and watch out, because he will flatten Fallujah in a vain attempt to "win" a war that we should never have fought to begin with. In some ways – many ways – this is worse than George W. Bush's position: Bush, at least, believes in the justice of this war, as monstrous as it is. Kerry knows it's an unjust war – and intends to pursue it until "victory" anyway.
Rush Limbaugh, an astute if unprincipled (other than fealty to the GOP) political observer, did make one very good point about the debate today. Kerry may have scored some points on Bush, he said, but only by pretending that he'd never held similar positions and flip-flopped on them multiple times. This he proved with various Kerry sound bites. In other words, the Kerry of last night also scored points against the Kerry of last week, last month, and last year.
Meanwhile, on the same Antiwar.com front page that links to Raimondo's column, we have a link to a story called "Foreign Policy Divide Is Slim for Bush, Kerry." That, I think, is the best way to look at this whole election: two guys who barely disagree on anything doing their darnedest to appear to have significant differences. How else could they induce anyone to go out and vote?
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 1, 2004 02:37 PM