Reply #110: same old debate

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Is this really what we want to debate? Hanoi Jane and throwing away medals vs. AWOL? Are we going to win a debate like that? Maybe so, maybe not. Isn't Clark a better candidate? If we put in Clark, then maybe we let go of using AWOL against them, but the good news is that this leaves NOTHING FOR THEM TO TALK ABOUT against us. Maybe, just maybe, we will get the chance to talk about what WE want to talk about, if we go with Clark instead of Kerry. The media might just have to let us frame a new style debate this time. This is what Clinton was able to do in 1992.

I mean they can't have dead air. If we force them to change the pre-planned script already in use to frame a debate between Kerry and Bush, they will have to scramble to come up with something new. They will be in dire need for new and credible material.

They don't want to do this! Everyone can be lazy. But they are the laziest. That's why they hate Clark so much. Clark forces them to rewrite the script. And they are not sure how they will write one that will make Bush look better than Clark. And at the same time, they can't have dead air either.

But if we're right there to provide them with some new, credible and fresh material, I think they will just have to go with the way we want events to be framed. We'll be there before Rove has time to come up with something that has not already planned out.

If we are able to frame the debate, it will be the first time in years. We can provide information about a debate between Bush and Clark, just in time for the media who will not know what to do. The current script, the one that includes the Kerry-Bush debate is already written. We can win a fair debate, one that has not already been scripted by the media (and Karl Rove.) One that does not already contain a Bush victory as the conclusion.