Big loss for Bush

Gene Lyons: 'Big loss for Bush'
Posted on Thursday, October 07 @ 10:17:39 EDT
By Gene Lyons, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=18157&mode=nested&order=0
If last week's presidential debate had been a prizefight, they'd have stopped it on a fourth-round TKO. If it had been a Little League game, they'd have invoked the 10-run "mercy" rule. If it had been a college football game, sportswriters would have chided John Kerry for scheduling a pushover like George W. Bush. Anybody who thinks Bush "won" his first encounter with Kerry is probably still in the market for Chicago Cubs playoff tickets. It wasn't simply that Bush lost the argument. He made the most fundamental political mistake of all: He believed his own -- well, "propaganda" is a word I can get into the newspaper....