n I thought the debate was a Bush victory, but not by a landslide. Kerry is a skilled debater, of course. Maybe my feeling that Bush won was mostly in comparison to his performance last Thursday night. He was definitely ready last night.

I agree with Mike McNamee, writing for BusinessWeek Online:

Scorned for his scowls and irritability in the first debate on Sept. 30, President George W. Bush made the most of a friendly format in the second. He changed his attitude, went on the offensive, and squeezed out a victory over Senator John F. Kerry at Washington University in St. Louis.


n I’m not going to analyze the debate in as much detail as I did the vice presidential debate. I will, however, critique this one item from Kerry...this is why he’s opposed to parental notification if an underage girl wants to have an abortion, as quoted from the MSNBC transcript:

KERRY: ...with respect to parental notification, I'm not going to require a 16-or 17-year-old kid who's been raped by her father and who's pregnant to have to notify her father. So you got to have a judicial intervention. And because they didn't have a judicial intervention where she could go somewhere and get help, I voted against it. It's never quite as simple as the president wants you to believe.

What a dolt this guy is. What an absolute dolt. Of COURSE the father of the girl in this kind of hypothetical situation should be notified... while his ass is being hauled off to jail. A situation like that, rare as it may be, is NOT best responded to by letting the girl quietly get an abortion so that her father never knows she’s pregnant, allowing life to go on as normal in that kind of terrible, abusive environment. Just letting the girl get a hush-hush abortion is NO solution.

This is the kind of hypothetical idea that pro-abortionists throw out there all the time, and it’s just a way of justifying their stance without admitting that they don’t believe that life begins in the womb. Kerry calls himself a Catholic, says he personally is opposed to abortion, and still doesn't stand up against abortion. What a fraud.

Most abortions in this country are simply a matter of birth control. To quote my friend Jamie, it’s not that the people who get them are pro-choice, it’s that they’re pro-second-choice. The first choice they made was to have sex. Now, they’re too selfish and irresponsible to live with the consequences of their first choice.

Not ready for a child yet? Fine. Accept the fact that you’re not ready for sex yet, either. And if you’re having sex, by all means, make every effort to manage conception... but accept conception as the likely biological result of sex, and accept that if you add one and one together, there’s a pretty damn good chance you’ll end up with two. Otherwise, make the right first choice. Don’t want a baby? Don’t have sex.

John Kerry and his ilk aren’t addressing the real issue, and this is the most disgusting of all his fence-straddling fraudulent positions.