Reaction from Another Right-Leaning Blogger

From Lorie Byrd, a poster to PoliPundit:

Tonight I felt like I was looking at a kid trying to get out of a tough spot by pointing his finger at the other guy. The thing that I found so hard to square with the brilliant, hot shot lawyer image though was Edwards’ closing statement. Edwards actually said America’s light is flickering and then spit out a little more doom and gloom. Of course Kerry and Edwards are the ones to save us, but all the solutions he gave were extremely general. That was the weakest closing statement I have ever heard. Was Edwards just terribly overrated before and was so successful as a lawyer because he got some really great cases to work , or has he just lost his touch? Maybe the tactics that work on North Carolina juries when you are trying to get money from a big insurance company for an injured child just don’t work so well when trying to make the case that a liberal Vietnam war protester from Massachusetts is the best choice to protect Americans from terrorists.

My favorite remarks just now heard from Mike Barnicle – at the end of the debate it was as if Dick Cheney was the dad turning to the son saying, “By the way, give me the keys, too.” He said when Edwards was talking, Cheney looked at Gwen Ifill the way he looks at his wife when their 18 year old son is trying to pull one over on them. That just about says it all.

[PoliPundit]