It really is a shame that rhetoric has become a bad word in our vocabulary, and that every word spoken by a candidate is so dramatically over-analyzed that it frightens some candidates from saying anything remotely controverisal. The public is more than ready to accept a candidate, baggage and all, who speaks from the gut and who works on finding his or her own unique voice.
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It really is a shame that rhetoric has become a bad word in our vocabulary, and that every word spoken...
Matt Eventoff
Jan 9, 2007 17:15
The Republican party is not in trouble with the general electorate because it has "difficulty in clearly communicating their agenda... [MORE]
Tom Shardlow
Jan 9, 2007 15:34
Luntz is nearly correct. All pols seems to speak newspeak with some legislative-speak cloned in. Pub pols need to take... [MORE]
Glenn Koons
Jan 9, 2007 13:46
Obama is an out-and-out leftist. His politics evoke images of Howard Dean, not Norman Rockwell. To have the rhetoric really... [MORE]
Matt
Jan 9, 2007 13:34
Luntz has made a career out of obviousness.
Yes, the GOP sucked in 2006 -- hey, you have to lose an... [MORE]
Vincent
Jan 9, 2007 13:09
Luntz is so right. And I hope that all my democrats follow suit. Go, Hillarry ,go! O thers like small... [MORE]