Do they really think that Kerry would be bad in a crisis? Compared to

[jumpstart33]

who, Bush? The answer to every crisis is not a war (Kennedy Cuban missle crisis). The answer to the next attack on America is not to go invade some nation that had nothing to do with the attack. If people would just step back and look at Bush's reactions and the ideas and decisions of the people around him it's obvious that these people's intelligence and leadership is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overblown. They all think more highly of themselves than they ought. They have messed things up royally!

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. "Good in a crisis" is just polling shorthand for...

..."likely to kill swarthies who worship the wrong God".

Bush does have a track record on this point, after all, and Kerry doesn't. It's been thirty-plus years since Kerry killed a pagan.

Maybe what Kerry needs to vault back into the lead in this race is to announce that he and John Edwards are going to truck-bomb a mosque someplace.

Oh, and polling questions that ask about 'tough on terror' are actually asking "which candidate is more likely to use the Constitution as rolling paper?"