Posted on 09/08/2008 8:11:37 PM PDT by maclogo
As countless others have noted, this is called a “stump speech”. Only a tiny percentage of the population follows their candidates’ movement on the stump every single day.
did you know that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time?
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!
Correction: it was "Ah feel yore pain". Also, let's not forget Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound".
It's a stump speech and she's a newbie to the campaign. She'll get better. It's like starring in a movie. She scarcely has time to learn lines and then she's in front of the cameras again.
If it was lame that Al Gore referred to himself as the "former next president of the United States" about nineteen billion times, it's lame when anybody repeats themselves over and over again.
There's no controlling legal authority to stop it though.
“When you are kicking ass, never change your boots.” - Confusius”
I’m just concerned that if the boots wear out, you can’t kick ass...???
The “stump speech” argument does not hold up as well in this day and age.
I have seen McCain give the same basic speech every time I have seen him. This allows him to speak without reading a script or a teleprompter. What one does not want to do is deal with an unfamiliar speech that risks forgetting ones lines in front of a large rally. The press would eat you up if you did that.
No- it’s Confusus- Obama philosophical adviser.
I watched the McCain/Palin appearance here in Kansas City.
While they did have the same theme, both Sarah and John (as well as the other speakers) did find fresh ways to say the same things.
Actually, Sarah is adding a gutsy female inflection to the end of more of her statements.
They know they have to repeat their main themes and campaign issues over, and over, and over, for the benefit of those at each location they visit, but they are doing their best to make sure it sounds fresh, and sincere.
At least we are sure what they are promising, whereas the Obama/Biden speeches are more like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ted9Hzn8foY
The mere fact that you are posting on FR means you are at the far end of the bell curve in terms of the amount of attention you pay to politics. She has to repeat the lines because many people have not heard them. Not everybody follows this stuff like we do—the votes we are after now barely follow it at all. She is fully capable of switching things up and thinking on her feet.
I could swear I've read this before! ;-)
It’s a stump speech. That’s what stump speeches are.
I think the Mccain camp should lull all the pundits into a false sense of security, by letting them think she is just a one trick pony. Then just as all the pundits think they’ve got her all figured out, and begin the heavy critism, turn the Pitbull with lipstick loose!
Nelson Rockefeller spend the entire 1964 primary season with the same stump speech. It included a line about ‘The brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God’ or BOMFOG for short.
You’ve posted several doom and gloom predictions now, Eeyore. Whatever else McCain has done - and I’m not a fan of his - he has run an excellent campaign.
I heard Pres Bush’s main speech so many times in 2000 that I had most of it memorized. That is what politicians do. Because we have heard her speech doesn’t mean that everyone has or that a lot of people may want to hear her say it in person.
Why would anyone think a candidate could do a new speech from stop to stop is beyond me.
May all the troubles be so small!
“You’re paranoid. All politicians do this.”
I heard Dick Armey give a stump speech supporting a Republican candidate on three different occasions. It was three different candidates, three different years — and the exact SAME speech.
Right on down to the SAME joke about how his wife would kill him if he ever let an intern do a Lewinsky on him. (”How do ya reload this thang?”
October debate should be interesting.
“They do this all the time as they are in front of different audiences.”
I have followed many elections. The way this is coming off IS NOT in front of DIFFERENT audiences. We ALL saw the convention speech. It is different than a Stump speech.
“But heck, give her a break, she’s had barely a week... “
I’m just looking ahead (e.g.: next week!}
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