The VP Debate

I suppose that one's perspective on the debate will be shaped by your views in general. That's the only way to explain how anyone could see Edwards as having won last night. Andrew Sullivan is practically falling all over himself over Edwards but he and the Dumbacratic Underground crew seem to be about the only ones (Although, Andrew is now so completely anti-Bush that he well could be a DU member.) I can't see how last night can be seen as anything less then Cheney absolutely spanking Edwards like the little kid he seemed. Don't get me wrong, Edwards spoke well and he was slick. But his substance was almost non-existent. Cheney was in command the whole time and slipped in some really good shots that Edwards just couldn't match. Hopefully, this will show that it's time to put junior to bed and let the politicians do their job.

Cheney nailed Edwards on fallacies concerning Halliburton, he absolutely destroyed Edwards for his shameful exclusion of Iraqis as allies, he blasted Kerry for his condemnation of the coalition -- making a great point about how much Kerry's attitude will hurt, rather than help, our chances of international dialogs. And, he swatted away Edwards' only actual "claim", namely the claims about Halliburton.

Interestingly, Cheney's one big gaff was that he mispoke the site FactCheck.org and accidentaly gave the site FackCheck.com instead. Oddly enough, just hours after the debate, the .com site was bought up and set to redirect users to the site of none other than George Suromon...Er I mean that guy who hates conservatives. I actually think this is a good thing. I can't wait for millions of Americans to visit his site and see just how big a nutjob the man actually is.

I can't see much to be redeemed from the debate for the Democrats last night. I'm sure they will spin it as they wish, but they lost handily and proved why John Edwards isn't even a good politician, let alone a good VP choice.