Reply #4: I think you have a point but here are my thoughts. [View All]

[spooky3]

1) I think JE thought he had answered the question (specifically as you noted). Then, as any good politician does, he kept talking on themes he wanted to get across in his short time on FTN. This is a little different from ducking the question and changing the subject.

2) Bush was not sitting across from him. So that is not the time to bring out the big guns. I think what JE was saying was if he gets the chance to debate this and GWB starts in with it, he'll point out how GWB has hardly been a paragon of morals and values, with specifics.

3) This is more speculative, and maybe more my opinion than JE's, but I'm not sure that "family values" or gay marriage is a winning theme for either party. It's not that these should not be discussed, but even the Gallup poll shows these issues as being WAY down the list of things that Americans believe are the most important in this campaign.