w was just seconds from a major melt down in round 1, what would it take..

[mopaul]

to send him totally over the edge and reveal his 'true' nazi nature?
i wish i could be the one to ask that magic question. the one that makes him go into full take all your clothes off, screaming and frothing, hauled off in a straight jacket nuts.

ask him about grandpa prescott and adolph? call his dad a sissy? call his mom a -----? ask him what he's ON? what would it take?

my big debate fantasy...................

[Vickers]

1. "ask him what he's ON?"

Bwahahahaha, that would be AWESOME!

:toast:

[txindy]

30. Yep, that's a good one

"Mr. President, are you all right? The lights here are very bright and yet your pupils are extremely dilated." :wow:

[skylarmae]

2. I'm with you - after all how can he ever get better unless he does

have one. Maybe a good dose of EST - any old timers remember EST.
Another one of those HARMONY kind of programs. What a laugh.

[Newsjock]

3. ask the question and win

http://www.onesimplequestion.blogspot.com/

Mr. President, how many times have you been arrested?
With a possible $8,418 (and growing) on the line to the person who asks, maybe one of the town-hall participants will forgo their scripted question and go for the money instead.

[BlueCollar]

4. I'd say....

"Mr. President, and I use the term loosely...are you naturally inept or does Condi Rice coach you on how to be an idiot?"

[Mikimouse]

5. We share that dream! Nothing would please me more that to see...

that useless pile of crap do a complete meltdown on national television, complete with name calling and Rove rushing out of the backstage to stop him. Oh, what a glorious day that would be! Just think, we wouldn't even need fireworks for the celebration, the freepers' exploding heads would provide the entertainment.

[mopaul]

13. he HATES to be confronted with the truth, or questioned at all

he's absolutely monarchial about it, HOW DARE someone ask me hard to understand questions? HOW DARE anyone say anything negative to me?

we don't need kings and princes anymore

[Florida_Geek]

6. You saw * reactions in the first debate

I think the man is very unstable and it would not take anything major to push him into one of his "I do not care what you think" statements.

Just IMHO....

[BeFree]

7. Did you hit the 'Trifecta'?

Did you, or did you not, with a smirk, proclaim that you hit the trifecta?

Did you also say that the year 2001 was a great year for you?

[BeachBuckeye]

8. Yeeeeeesssss!!

A good comment has to be something Kerry can say and still look Presidential. Your suggestion here fits the bill perfectly!

[catzies]

26. Bush didn't say 2001 was a great year for him

He said it was a FABULOUS year for him and Laura. :evilgrin:

[FormerOstrich]

9. Why were you taking

Cipro on September 12, 2001????

[PATRICK]

10. Bush now on the defensive

His strategies will be safe and rigid. He can't take an uncalculated risk. Kerry should be ready for a new variety of this sort and hammer it immediately. Bush might try to draw first blood and attack aggressively this time(LOL). Kerry of course will keep his composure but he should work to dampen any essence of a comeback no matter how trivial the content. Oh yeah, this time knock him completely off message or whatever that parrot talk W was flailing about with.

Lay a BIG trap. Bush seized on one word like a drowning man lunging for a life preserver. He is vulnerable enough at a moment like that to do something fatally stupid, even more than his Poland remark.

Then make him mad.

The town hall format, phony as it is, gives Bush a different comfort zone and breathing space. Deny him that, again in the simple context of presenting Kerry as the better man.

But it also too too late for Bush to try to regain anything on the Commander in Chief image within the debates. Now it is his miserably unfair, reckless and ruinous economic misery- equally vacuous.

The best thing about Kerry is he doesn't need this advice.

[liberalcanuck]

11. I was SO hoping he would keep mentioning Bin Laden and *'s

diverting attention from the true threat to go into Iraq. Everytime Kerry brought this up I could tell * was getting pissed. A couple of more mentions and we would have seen Chernobyl.

[mopaul]

12. I know Sadda--Osama attacked us......I know that

so so close to a melt down at that point. mentioning the name which must not be spoken, the effrontery of that upstart John Kerry!

[kentuck]

20. His advisers thought Democrats were too fearful to mention Osama.....

I think. :)

[charlie]

14. Pitch his Dad

as the measure of a reasonable President. That always cuts Dubya to the core. Worked in the first debate, there's still a lot mileage in it.

Did Mr. Bush ask his father for any advice? "I asked the president about this. And President Bush said, 'Well, no,' and then he got defensive about it," says Woodward. "Then he said something that really struck me. He said of his father, 'He is the wrong father to appeal to for advice. The wrong father to go to, to appeal to in terms of strength.' And then he said, 'There's a higher Father that I appeal to.'"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml

[johnfunk]

18. Not to mention the reverse of mentioning his dad...

If Kerry really, really wants to get under the Bush Boy's skin, he should compare Junior's mucked-up, f$#ked-up Iraq mess to Daddy's Gulf War.

Daddy successfully initiated the isolation and diminution of Saddam, forcing him to destroy his stockpiles of chemical weapons and dismantle his nuke program, disrupting his cash flow and ability to finance regional insurgencies ("tairists"), and in effect turning him from a threat into a gelding!

Junior got a thousand of our kids killed, had failed to develop a plan for possible post-invasion scenarios, has committed billions of our tax dollars in the wake of his failure to assemble a genuine international effort to have Saddam removed, has rallied insurgents to attack and kill Westerners, and continues to live in a world of self-delusion, stubborn intransigence, and dimwit doctrine.

"Mr. President, I knew your father. Your father successfully reined in Saddam, and the world loved us. You screwed up, and now the world hates us. You're no George Bush Senior."

[Forkboy]

15. Call his mom a what?

:evilgrin:

[Kahuna]

16. Why did Jeb sign an executive order four days behind 911 giving

himself emergency powers in the event of a terrorist attack? :evilgrin:

[LibDemAlways]

17. Kerry needs to go straight to

the chimp's answer in debate #1 about how he knows how hard the situation in Iraq is because he's seen it on tv. "President Bush thinks the war in Iraq is television entertainment. This is an insult to our brave soldiers who put their lives on the line daily and an insult to their families who worry and wait for their loved ones to return. Mr. President, you have yet to attend a single funeral for one of these soldiers. You have not personally honored their sacrifice. You owe those brave soldiers and their families an apology for that remark and an explanation of why you are so seemingly detached from the horror of what they are going through. With all due respect, sir, our brave soldiers are not contestants on a morbid reality game show. They deserve much, much better from you."

You want to see pure rage? That kind of public calling out and scolding would do it.

[kentuck]

19. Good one !

:) Kerry needs to hit the "anger" button early and get him off his strategy.

[onecitizen]

21. hehehe......

someone else just had a similar post and I said we're gonna be able to watch his meltdown on TV!! Cannot wait!

Anyway, I just heard on Mathews Sunday show that the bush team is trying to weasel out of the next debate! You guys were right!

[Doctor_J]

22. if the next one is really "town hall",

with unscripted questions, it will probably happen then. How about this:

"Mr. Resident, you are basing your entire re-selection campaign on protecting the US. Yet UBL, the anthrax bomber, and the traitor who outed valerie plame are still at large, and the taliban is running afghanistan again. HOw do those two things fit together?"

[RedEagle]

29. How likely is it that "Town Hall" participants will be screened?

I mean, loyalty oath and all that?

[lil-petunia]

23. It has to be unexpected, and hit close to home

the shrub would be incapable of dealing with it. he will erupt.

Daddy comparisons?
Drugs and booze?

no, I think he will be prepped on those. Something completely unexpected.

[Minstrel Boy]

24. "Hey, I'm a pretty calm guy."

[Mandate My Ass]

25. It wouldn't take much, he's so thin skinned

Just ask him how it felt the be the most loathed person on the earth and an embarrassment to the citizens of his own country.

That should make his cheese slide entirely right off his cracker.

[Cat Atomic]

27. I think Kerry hit these two buttons perfectly in the 1st debate:

1. He called Bush stupid. 'I'm resolute and determined as well, but you also have to be smart. (pause)

2. He suggested that Bush's father was a better president than Dubya. 'This president's father understood that taking Baghdad would be disastrous'.

Those two points really spiked Bush's anger. Kerry should hit them again.

[Serenades]

28. Seriously

If Bush went crazy and started throwing punches or launching horrific verbal assualts I think people would like it. People out there are just that stupid. They saw his getting angry and speech mannerisms last week as "strong." They think he is a man of conviction.