Bush's Anger will drive away Women voters

 Kerry had momentum going in this debate and maintains it.  But this is an important meme - not just his anger but who it affects.  This debate will especially help him with women voters.  John Kerry has proved he is presidiential, firm, won't wilt and keep his cool under pressure.  He doesn't have to strut like he's the angry cock of the walk.  Bush acts like a braggart and a bully.

George Bush can't keep his temper under control. And I will say this as a woman who knew instantly  that Rick Lazio, running against Hillary, lost the election when he acted like a bully in the  debate with her.  But the immediate TV reaction was at bars from drunken men who thought Lazio had delivered a knockout blow. Woman were not impressed and many were angry with him.  I think the run in with Charlie Gibson was like that moment.

Woman no longer need to be assured Kerry is strong; his debate performances have shown that. Woman like strength but they don't like bullies and Bush's behavior around that incident with Gibson, when he violated a rule he insisted on, showed us just that he's a bully. No wonder that his attempts at diplomacy were such a failure; he temper and his arrogance are right there at the surface.  

And here is the link and an exerpt from Michael Toamaskey of the American Prospect, ex New York magazine writer, who covered Hillary's Senate campaign. So he remembers how misunderstood these kind of moments can be when interpreted by the macho media culture.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8729

Gender Gap by Michael Tomaskey

I'm guessing that Friday night, that trend started shifting into reverse. It wasn't any single thing Bush said. It was the manner: the schoolyard swagger, the left arm cocked like an itchy gunslinger's, the arrogant sneer, the roosterish strutting -- and the voice. God, that voice. You don't quite call that screaming. It wasn't exactly caterwauling. Maybe yowling. Whatever it was, he sounded like a tedious and noisome braggart in the parking lot after a football game. Having seen plenty of those, and having been that myself from time to time, experience teaches me to take the view that most women do not find that figure appealing.

They might have, if Kerry had come across, to extend the metaphor, as the inadequate sad sack portrayed in Bush's television commercials. But he didn't. Kerry was terrific. Far better, by my lights, than he was in the first debate. I know no one else will see it that way, because he was the first debate's obvious winner, while he merely edged out round two on points after Bush didn't show up in where-am-I-again? mode. But Kerry was, if anything, stronger -- more succinct and direct, more challenging to Bush, and tougher -- than he had been in the first debate. And he especially showed all those qualities when he was talking foreign policy. I'm betting the security moms noticed......

It's very much worth remembering, in fact, how aggressively male a domain cable television is. The worst moment, when Bush just clearly behaved like a rude jerk, came at 9:36 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, when Charlie Gibson was trying to ask him a follow-up and Bush brusquely waved him off, interrupted, and charged forward and started yelping about Tony Blair. It was witnessing this moment that made me start to think about women viewers. But Chris Matthews, naturally, thought it was great. Which makes me think I'm on to something.

I think he is.  That MSNBC team is overlaoded with admiration for testerone fuled anger-  hell even the women like Andres Mitchell try to act like they use male androgens.