There was some wrong…

There was some wrong communication last night. I’m not talking about the debate, I’m talking about whether the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was going to be at the Debate Party last night. We did have a reporter from a county paper, and if her story makes it onto the Gwinnett Daily Post, I’ll post a link. They had a photographer there as well, so there may also be pictures. (UPDATE: Article is here.)

My sister has a number of friends in county & state Republican party circles, so the dozen folks that were there were all friends of hers from that group. (Apparently, a similar group of Democrats was being covered by another reporter.) So this was an obviously partisan group of folks, and thus the jokes at Kerry’s expense, and the enjoyment of Bush’s answers (and his better demeanor during Kerry’s answers) were plentiful. The consensus was that Bush won handily on the issues, but again we were a bunch of partisans who agree with most of Bush’s positions and we’ve been paying attention for the whole political season; no undecided voters in this bunch.

One of the reasons for that was that, in many ways John Kerry told us that he doesn’t trust us. Putting just a portion of your own Social Security money in investment that will probably bring a greater return? Sorry, the pyramid scheme doesn’t work that way, and we’re not interested in reforming it. As to same-sex marriage, he’d rather judges legislate from the bench instead of reigning them in and letting the people decide, either via the elected legislature, or via the now necessary constitutional amendments. John Kerry doesn’t even trust us as a nation with nuclear weapons or taking action without certain countries going along with us (even if those countries are being bribed to stay away). He simply doesn’t trust us.

George Bush’s answers, in general, promoted the ownership society. We get control of our own lives. John Kerry’s answers, in general, promoted more big government programs to strip you of the decision-making and letting bureaucrats in Washington make broad decisions for the whole country. He simply doesn’t trust us.

After all of each man’s positives and negatives, the second biggest question to ask in this election (the first being “Who will keep us safer, on our own terms?”) is “who trusts you?” John Kerry doesn’t. George W. Bush does. It’s pretty much that simple.

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