[...because I definitely caught a whiff of Noonan in the tail end
Karen Hughes.]
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You mean the Karen Hughes who (I've read) wrote the twins' script? :o(
First you dour old so and so, there was nothing wrong with the twin's script. Second Karen Hughes may have helped edit and shape it. She didn't write it. Too much intimate family detail.
Whether YOU liked it or not, the twins' speech played very well amongst the younger set who are not political junkies.
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