I Figured Out *'s Problem Tonight! Seriously.

[stopbush]

It's simple: he wanted to respond to Kerry, but all he could do was repeat the talking points, and he has grown tired of repeating the same idiotic Rovian talking points over and over and over. His heart isn't in it. He even failed to do his goofy stresses that he usually does on words like "freedom."

He thought this would be a cakewalk...that the putrid RNC, the media and the slimeball Swift Liars had won him the election. As Kerry pissed him off, * struggled with *wanting* to respond to Kerry's attacks in the moment, but in his enfeebled brain, all he could remember was "stick to the talking points, stick to the talking points."

He was caught in a conflict with his few remaining brain cells screaming out to counter attack Kerry, but the repetition-hammered talking points won out...and were repeated by rote without any thought or emotion behind them.

[tinrobot]

1. He bought his own rhetoric.

He thought his frat boy insults would carry in places where they don't require loyalty oaths.

Kerry had knowledge. Bush had crib notes.

[cheshire]

2. I agree, it's just like the NG after awhile he didn't want to play anymore

If he cared he would have been able to be clearer. I heard a Dr. say he gets real clear when he talks about death but all else he is muddled.

[cmd]

9. He has never been able to finish anything

W had the world on the string.

Lots of kids got airplanes to play with. 41 got him a fighter jet. He soon got tired of it.
He thought Monopoly might be fun. 41 got him an oil company. He got tired of it.
Little League came next. 41 got him a baseball team. He got tired of it.
Texas? Not big enought. 43 wanted the whole country and all the tanks, battleships and jets. He has played around with them and now is tired of them.

Yep, he's ready to go on to new destruction. Bye - bye.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. It was pitiful actually, that the man who is supposed to be the president

would turn in a performance like that. It was a great embarrassment to the people of this country. For him to do nothing but repeat 3 or 4 sound byte Kerry zingers over and over like a broken record was a very sad and tragic mess.

[madaboutharry]

6. You are so right.

n/t

[Still_Notafraid]

4. Now

You know why they don't let him hold press conferences or talk to reporters anymore.

[homerthompson]

5. hey, good point.

It's like he's Colonel Nathan Jessup, in "A Few Good Men".

He believes his own hype, and slowly resents anyone questioning his orders. So much so that he forgets that they're all participating in an elaborate charade to cover up his mistake.

Eventually he cracks and tries to assert his imagined above-the-law authority, and then gets tacked to the wall.

[murielm99]

7. I think he may have forgotten the talking points he was

supposed to stick to!

I am sure "hard work" was not part of what they drummed into his head. He was like a deer in the headlights (again) and could only remember that one phrase.

I bet Karen and Karl tell him never to say those two words again.

[SangamonTaylor]

8. his talking points are stale

and people turn him off when they hear them.