Reply #18: We had six months to respond to the $87 billion question in 2004...

[nyhuskyfan]

And goddamnit, other than Al and Randi on AAR (preaching to the choir), nobody, including Kerry himself, did a good job refuting that talking point. With six months to hear it over and over, the best he could come with was "I made a mistake talking about the war, he made a mistake sending us to war..." -- when it would have been so easy to pin it back on the right for voting against the $87 billion in the first place.

That really pissed me off. The Republicans message is always simple -- but they use the echo chamber to get their one or two sentences to resonate in people's minds. Getting caught off guard without a good response by a right-wing talking point is frankly inexcusable.