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The One Word That Rudy And Romney Fear Most
Mark Blumenthal, a.k.a. "Mystery Pollster," has an entertaining feature over at Pollster.com called "word clouds." The word clouds work as follows: Each of the GOP candidates has been given his own word cloud, and in each one, you can see which words each candidate used most in yesterday's debate and which words they used least. Check it out.
And now that you've looked at it, here's a quick quiz. Which word is completely missing from or infinitesimal in the word clouds of Rudy and Romney -- that is, a word they said rarely if ever last night -- but prominent in McCain's cloud?
Answer after the jump.
Iraq
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The camel in the room, perhaps.
global citizen
May 4, 2007 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Few political activists have a stronger Republican pedigree than Gold. A press aide for 1964 presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and later Vice President Spiro Agnew, Gold also was a speechwriter and adviser to President H.W. Bush. Gold coauthored the latter's biography.
He also coauthored a novel with Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president. He cheered the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and the presidency in 2000. He was one of those well-connected GOP activists whose loyalty appeared well-nigh absolute. No longer.
Gold has penned a devastating critique of the modern Republican party, Invasion of the Party Snatchers. It is more an angry, emotional rant than an academic treatise. But that adds to its power. Gold is a loyalist betrayed, a partisan set adrift. He explains, in clear, simple language, how the Republican Party has not just strayed from its philosophical heritage, but trashed the principles and memories of those who made the modern GOP.
Gold paints a scene on November 4, 2006 that captures the emotions of many on the Right who once had worked for the Republican party. Writes Gold:
"there I was on election night 2006, an aging Goldwater conservative who felt not only good but also gratified that all this was unraveling state by state and district by district. A Democratic landslide was sweeping a corrupt, self-aggrandizing Republican congressional majority out of power and, hard as they tried, the disingenuous party hacks spouting the White House line on Fox News couldn't explain it away. What came to mind watching these Beltway blowhards was an old Joe South lyric from the 1970s: 'These are not my people.'"
http://www.antiwar.com/bandow/?articleid=10907
May 4, 2007 11:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the Party of Ideas cannot talk about Iraq, because they have no idea what to do.
Greenwald today provides the Republican's Serious Thinking on Iraq:
Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code. -- SCOTUS that was...
May 4, 2007 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting that you would pick out Iraq. The word that stuck out for me was Iran.
May 4, 2007 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
War is also missing for them but present for McCain, which I suppose makes sense since they go together, but they could also have had some Global War on Terror references.
May 4, 2007 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink