Even though I am an ardent Bush supporter, Kerry without a doubt won the first debate. I could tell within the first 20 minutes that Kerry was doing better than normal, and Bush worse than normal. Kerry is an impressive debater, and I think it is lame that some conservative pundits fail to acknowledge that Kerry won. If they don't acknowledge Kerry's success, then we will be hypocrits like the Leftists in this nation.

However, Kerry's inconsistency and flip-flops is reassuring. If he continues he will not have a core in terms of where he stands. Even in the debate he flip-flopped.

For example, his 'claim' is that the US needs more allies in dealing with Iraq, yet criticized Bush for having multi-lateral talks with North Korea, when it is clear Pyongyang falls more under the sphere of influence of Beijing than it does Washington DC.

Kerry also mentioned the lack of armament for our troops and blamed it on the President. In fact, blame lies on both sides of the aisle, but Kerry himself should know about this issue since he personally voted against it.

Kerry cannot be the optimal war time leader on the grounds that he doesn't even know if he supports the war in Iraq. Remember, American, British (MI-6), Russian, Egyptian and Jordanian intel all claimed that Saddam had WMDs. If we never went after Saddam and were currently pressuring North Korea, liberals would be crying "What about Iraq? Why don't you go after Iraq?"

Plus Saddam had ties through al-Qaeda, though not 9/11. Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaeda affiliate, had a terrorist camp in Northeast Iraq. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda agent attacking our troops now was in Baghdad in 2002, a year before we attacked, recieving care in one of Uday's clinics, following an injury sustained in Tora Bora, Afghanistan.

When Kerry insulted Interim Prime Minister Allawi (calling him a puppet) of Iraq, on his visit to the US last month, I was appalled that Kerry could say something so low, while our troops are fighting to protect Allawi's status in the interim government (Note: The terrorists call Allawi a puppet too--once again liberals and terrorists share the same message)

At a time when the American people must defeat terrorism and liberalism, we cannot afford to elect the most LIBERAL SENATOR in the senate as President.