The DebatesYOU NEVER GET THE SALE BY KNOCKING THE OTHER GUY'S PRODUCT

Really listening to the Democrats last night: Sharpton is a clown and the support from Blacks is sad; like the entire race in this country can produce nothing but him. He is a walking talking lie of a man, endorsed by Black leadership. The question from a black so-called reporter to the candidates: "What is your favorite song?" tells more than I'd like to know about blacks in this country. Had I been there I'd have told her that it was a stupid question and people who expected an answer to it wanted a stupid president.

But what was really cloaking all the candidates was: "I don't know so I'll hit you with some sound bites". They have no purpose for this country. No purpose in the world, as if Terrorism is just going to go away if we rely on our pals the Germans and the French. They lack even one idea to help our economy (which is now rebounding at a 5% plus rate of growth). If you have ever been involved in sales you know that it is suicidal to knock your competition; you never get the sale when you do that. These are Democrats who won't get the sale. It's basic. The only thing they'd all DO is raise taxes and by implication spend the $87billion on welfare, "education", health care (socializing the health care system), and tax the wealthy more.

The problem is that both Lieberman and Kerry know better but neither has the cajones to stand up for what they believe in. I now have to agree with many other observers of the Democratic primary: they are pandering to their extreme Left and may lead the entire party over the cliff.

AND THEN THE QUESTION THEY HAD NO ANSWER FOR: What is our exit strategy? Today is meal day for Claudia Rosett, the lethal boa constrictor of the Right. Slithering out of the tree of reason for her bi-monthly meal she once again wraps herself around a particular liberal argument and squeezes the life out of it. It's quite a feast. On the war: (all emphasis is mine).

The answer is not pleasant. This war, in the most basic sense of a fight to defend our freedom, our society of liberty and justice, is far larger than Iraq, Afghanistan or even the entire Middle East. The real war here is the old human struggle of good versus evil, a war that is part of what we are, part of the long volatile history of mankind. Never has there been so much to celebrate; rarely has there been more peril. Among individuals, we cannot hope to eliminate entirely all cold and gloating killers, people such as al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, drunk on his dreams of destruction, threatening in recent weeks to launch "an attack that will make you forget Manhattan." There will always be someone who delights in terror and ruin, and seeks ways to inflict it. And as we all know, modern technology, along with its mighty blessings, offers arsenals so terrifying we can all have our moments of wishing to live forever suspended in that last spell of denial, the 10th of September.

That's real. That is what none of the Democrats and the "Black Caucus and their lackeys" fail to address. So we are left with people hurling insults. You don't win by knocking the other guy, you win by offering better solutions to problems. What would they DO in Iraq. What would they DO for the economy. All I heard was go to the French and Germans, raise taxes, and be nice to everybody. I still think Bush is vulnerable, but not to these guys.