[lbo-talk] Conservatives Aghast at Bush Performance in Russert Interview

[Doug Henwood]

Interesting - bad reviews from W at National Review Online 
<http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp>. Our NRO lurker 
K Lo is one of the few defending W's performance:

AND ANOTHER [KJL]
Another e-mail:

I guarantee you that most people who watched it like him more now 
than before. He came across as a thoroughly good man. He was more 
articulate than he was in 2000, the last time that the vast majority 
of people watching him will have heard him speak off-the-cuff.
This is like the debates with Al Gore that he won: the pundits all 
thought that he'd lost; the focus groups thought otherwise.
This appearance was good. Period.
Posted at 11:56 AM

[But...]

Posted at 11:44 AM
GULP [KJL]
A pundit-type just said to me: "If he loses this year, this will be 
the day he lost it."