>> You mean like the difference between a professional business presentation and the off-the-cuff commentary by some sluff off the street? Yeah, one looks much more polished, and yeah, I might believe the bum more.
Not exactly ... but sort of. When Fred or Rudy speak — it sounds like they’re speaking extemporaneously. They’re speaking from the mind/heart and laying out their opinions ... thus, it comes off as genuine — even if I may disagree with their particular stance.
When Mitt speaks, he sounds like he’s reading a position paper off of a cue card. It doesn’t sound extemporaneous — it sounds over-rehearsed. It comes off like a prepared statement — like he’s blowing smoke, telling the GOP what they want to hear, manipulating or supressing his actual opinions. It just doesn’t sound genuine.
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Mitt is not my first choice, but my reservations have nothing to do with his polish. Some people just speak that way, complete with punctuation. No ums, errs, sentence fragments. Even complex sentences with a parenthetical thought inserted comes out grammatically pristine. I know a couple people like that. I think Mitt is one of them. It's an amazing experience to converse with them.