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(Click for frequent words.) 64 policy wonk 56 wonkery 54 wonk 48 professorial 48 policy wonks 48 jargony 47 technocratic 46 wonkishness 46 unquotable 46 Reaganesque 46 verbose 46 postpartisan 46 abstruse 45 wonks 45 redistributionist 45 glib 45 refreshingly blunt 45 egghead 44 bumper sticker slogans 44 waffly 44 nonideological 44 charismatically challenged 44 wordy 44 arcane 43 plainspoken 43 nothingburger 43 folksy 43 common sensical 43 oratorical skill 43 maddeningly opaque 43 Greenspeak 43 jocular 43 mild mannered 43 high falutin 43 rhetorical flourishes 43 pricklier 43 lofty oratory 43 professorial demeanor 43 Clintonomics 43 Palinesque 43 vacuous 43 winded speeches 43 bloviation 43 populist 43 amiable 43 urbane 43 politically astute 43 mealy mouth 42 picayune 42 stemwinder 42 lawyerly 42 highfalutin 42 incrementalist 42 circumlocution 42 pedantic 42 compassionate conservatism 42 longwinded 42 mealymouthed 42 ideologically rigid 42 speechifying 42 Clintonian 42 boilerplate 42 supply sider 42 self effacing 42 rigidly ideological 42 wonkiness 42 unconservative 42 minutiae 42 wonky 42 deliberately obtuse 41 hyperarticulate 41 erudite 41 esoteric 41 consummate politician 41 establishmentarian 41 minutia 41 pragmatic 41 milquetoast 41 prosaic 41 Charles Blahous 41 pithy 41 brainy 41 windmill tilting 41 singularly lacking 41 stump speech 41 hippie ish 41 arcana 41 garbled syntax 41 legalistic 41 unrevealing 41 bookish 41 Panglossian 41 temperamentally unsuited 41 deregulator 41 bombastic 40 pithier 40 self deprecating 40 insidery 40 wonkiest 40 anodyne 40 convoluted explanations 40 obtuse 40 loquacious 40 disquisitions 40 Rubinomics 40 stump speeches 40 Karl Rovian 40 nerdish 40 Carteresque 40 clipped cadence 40 wordsmithing 40 telegenic 40 bomb thrower 40 Seinfeldian 40 rhetorical 40 Chryson 40 Seinfeld ian 40 wittedness 40 quixotic 40 acerbic 40 voluble 40 flowery rhetoric 40 platitudinous 40 mangled syntax 39 JM Mac Stipanovich 39 bare knuckled 39 leftish 39 canny politician 39 Compassionate conservatism 39 politically adroit 39 Drew Westen 39 dilettante 39 vague platitudes 39 verbal tic 39 fatuous 39 technocrat 39 professor Doug Muzzio 39 cerebral 39 logorrhea 39 rhetorical overkill 39 Alessandro Nicolo 39 shifted rightward 39 unexcitable 39 stem winder 39 hyper partisan 39 boring 39 Jed Bartlet 39 sententious 39 freewheeling 39 good humored 39 Ayn Randian 39 Clintonesque 39 bitingly sarcastic 39 intellectually incurious 39 genial 39 donnish 39 gifted orator 39 Earhart writings 39 bookish intellectual 39 hyperpartisan 39 unblushing 39 eminently quotable 39 tightly scripted 39 convoluted 39 lofty rhetoric 39 Wanniski 39 affable approachable 39 contentless 39 Hayekian 39 neo Keynesian 39 substantive 39 dry wit 39 shockingly candid 39 tautologies 39 commonsense conservatism 39 carefully parsed 39 obfuscatory 39 weighty matters 39 generalities 39 unstatesmanlike 39 overtly partisan 38 bureaucratese 38 obtusely 38 snappy repartee 38 nitty gritty 38 bland generalities 38 Glib 38 intellectually nimble 38 disarming candor 38 assiduously avoided 38 owlish 38 sharp tongued 38 gadfly 38 disarmingly charming 38 long windedness 38 Jesuitical 38 geekish 38 gaffe prone 38 epigrammatic 38 fiscally conservative 38 unpartisan 38 showbizzy 38 snooze inducing 38 me tooism 38 wooing superdelegates 38 delphic 38 woolly minded 38 dour 38 jargon 38 thoughtful 38 Don Sipple 38 prickly 38 debates 38 pragmatism 38 sound bites 38 Bloc Quebecois Gilles Duceppe 38 Palinism 38 combative 38 self depricating 38 green eyeshade 38 Brownite 38 winded 38 studiously avoiding 38 mundane 38 displayed steadiness 38 prolix 38 gaffe prone Biden 38 fiscal conservatism 38 bruisingly 38 flip floppery 38 politer 38 eliding 38 verbosely 38 prolixity 38 straightforward 38 gimlet eyed 38 gobbledy gook 38 chin stroking 38 gnomic 38 sensical 38 succinct 38 non sequitor 38 gabfests 38 affable 38 grows wearisome 37 Gov. Moonbeam 37 laconic 37 shoutfest 37 impolitic 37 acerbic wit 37 bland inoffensive 37 winded explanations 37 Cato Unbound 37 hackish 37 unerring ear 37 transcending partisanship 37 triangulator 37 Pigovian 37 self aggrandizing 37 hewed closely 37 encyclopedic command 37 shoutfests 37 speak extemporaneously 37 artfully worded 37 unpresidential 37 pompous self righteous 37 disarmingly candid 37 platitudes 37 franker 37 Johnsonian 37 superficial 37 florid prose 37 gladhanding 37 Throne Speeches 37 Landon Parvin 37 sarcastic barbs 37 mumbling grungy attitudes 37 Douglas Holz Eakin 37 maundering 37 verbosity 37 Kennedyesque 37 mot juste 37 fundamentally unserious 37 skilled debater 37 mind numbingly complex 37 pseudo populist 37 oneliners 37 bafflegab 37 blogland 37 blokeish 37 overly wordy 37 autodidactic 37 rhetorical jabs 37 demeanor contrasted sharply 37 humorous asides 37 wonkier 37 lipstick aphorism 37 folksiness 37 Centrism 37 conversational 37 stultifyingly 37 journalese 37 nuanced 37 stupefyingly dull 37 beyond whoop dee 37 aw shucks demeanor 37 aw shucks persona 37 avoider 37 geeky 37 speeches 37 admirably candid 37 regal pomp 37 gotcha politics 37 zeitgeisty 37 oddly detached 37 Trumanesque 37 homespun 37 witty self deprecating 37 Beltway pundits 37 nonpolitician 37 adulatory 37 populism 37 formidable debater 37 Franklyn Lyn Nofziger 37 talkfests 37 famously opaque 37 clubbable 37 self deprecatingly 37 irreverent wit 37 pragmatist 37 neo Thatcherite 37 betchas 37 pugnaciousness 37 flowery prose 37 mavericky 37 plainspoken manner 37 Stephen Slivinski 37 uncharismatic 37 businesslike 36 blither 36 boiled boilerplate 36 TPaw 36 Obamaesque 36 pretty thin gruel 36 spoofery 36 self deprecating humor 36 intellectualising 36 Rhetorical flourishes 36 pseudo intellectual 36 witty asides 36 spouting platitudes 36 eloquent 36 eggheaded 36 ineloquent 36 Hemingway esque 36 clever quips 36 weightier matters 36 liberal blogroll 36 turgid 36 lavish soirees 36 Still Siripat described 36 adviser Mary Matalin 36 witty urbane 36 fundamentally dishonest 36 Continetti 36 nihilistic rut 36 dour Scotsman 36 Orwellian newspeak 36 noncandidate 36 polysyllabic 36 schoolmarmish 36 self deprecatory humor 36 satirical jabs 36 contrarianism 36 rhetorician 36 unspontaneous 36 skilled communicator 36 Self effacing 36 tawdriest 36 staid 36 incoherence 36 Nuanced 36 WSJ op ed 36 hifalutin 36 unengaging 36 Friedmanite 36 maladroit 36 professorial tone 36 bipartisanship 36 legalese 36 unscripted moments 36 uncontentious 36 strategist Keith Appell 36 dispassionate 36 quick witted sharp tongued 36 rambling 36 aw shucks 36 barely comprehensible 36 blather 36 nononsense 36 electrifying oratory 36 Dickie Pilager 36 folksier 36 shout fests 36 sarcastic quips 36 bloviates 36 smooth snappy repartee 36 Ideological purity 36 perpetually grumpy 36 personable demeanor 36 acerbic tongue 36 deconstructionist 36 pragmatic centrist 36 chitchat 36 nutty 36 dunderheaded 36 nebulous 36 pithiness 36 touchy feely 36 effusive 36 Mittster 36 recountings 36 Effete 36 rapier sharp 36 jokey 36 glittering generalities 36 Douglas Muzzio 36 studious 36 boosterish 36 doctrinaire liberal 36 doublespeak 36 maddeningly vague 36 liberal 36 speechmaker 36 seemingly unflappable 36 Mild mannered 36 loquacity 36 finger wagging 36 uncharacteristically reticent 36 backslapper 36 undogmatic 36 quippy 36 changey 36 Obamunism 36 pleasantly bland 36 Newsweek Howard Fineman 36 self congratulatory 36 commentator James Carville 36 characteristically blunt 36 prickly personality 36 niceties 36 idiosyncratic 36 graying curly hair 36 elide 36 unilluminating 36 Cameronism 36 analyst Federico Estevez 36 postmodern pastiche 36 banal 36 knottier 36 rigid ideology 36 Ted Van Dyk 36 Lo bama instead 36 weighty 36 equanimous 36 Nixon speechwriter 36 nerdy 36 ticketmate 36 Burkean conservatism 36 folksy Midwestern 36 perfunctory 36 Shavian 36 number cruncher 36 Ratherisms 36 pork barrell 36 brainiac 36 answer sesssion 36 caustic 36 ah shucks 36 Cilizza 35 Niebuhrian 35 intellectually coherent 35 conserva tive 35 extemporaneous 35 Arnie Arnesen 35 mind numbing 35 thinky 35 poli sci 35 Reaganite 35 mind numbingly boring 35 Dennis Goldford political 35 Hank Sheinkopf Democratic 35 curtly dismissed 35 meaningless platitudes 35 luster dims 35 rejects partisan gridlock 35 towering intellect 35 bipartisan problem solver 35 centrist 35 libertarian 35 tactician Karl Rove 35 pugnacious 35 flinty eyed 35 windbag 35 bon mot 35 steel magnolia 35 acutely perceptive 35 scatterbrained 35 slick salesmanship 35 anal retentive 35 bien pensant 35 Obamian 35 maverick 35 veiled jabs 35 Doug Sosnik 35 superficially attractive 35 psychoanalyzing 35 tax increaser 35 commonsensical 35 defter 35 witty prose 35 uninformative 35 rostered ELCA pastor 35 hard nosed 35 Burkean 35 witty erudite speaking 35 overly verbose 35 madcap hilarity 35 counterproductively 35 Governor Moonbeam 35 spendaholic 35 gobbledygook 35 impenetrable jargon 35 dull monotone 35 hyperbolic 35 managerialist 35 shier 35 flummery 35 artful dodging 35 high fallutin 35 jejune 35 thin gruel 35 characteristically understated 35 Brian Reidl 35 urbane wit 35 Speedy Sarko 35 inscrutable 35 weaselly 35 quirky 35 nonanswers 35 showhorse 35 sitcomish 35 oxymoronic 35 verbal gaffes 35 politically savvy 35 buttoned 35 relentlessly upbeat 35 unversed 35 famously loquacious 35 cryptic puzzles 35 bureaucrat ese 35 Alan Blinder Princeton 35 polymath 35 even keeled 35 fiendishly complex 35 irascibility 35 empty platitudes 35 incoherent rant 35 ascerbic 35 Yiddishisms 35 gregarious 35 dogmatic 35 humorless 35 nonsubstantive 35 overly chatty 35 rigid ideologue 35 garrulous 35 Norman Ornstein congressional 35 Lisa Vorderbrueggen covers 35 nerdy geeky 35 witty wordplay 35 testy 35 mumbo jumbo 35 Dan Shomon 35 heartily embracing 35 highbrow lowbrow 35 Veepstakes 35 fussbudget 35 self styled reformers 35 soaring oratory 35 overthinks 35 soundbites 35 nonpartisan 35 uncontroversial 35 rumpled 35 antiscience 35 woolgathering 35 decentralist 35 self deprecating quips 35 pompous 35 schmoozer 35 diplomatese 35 charming witty 35 Godardian 35 sciencey 35 ebullient 35 Lincolnesque 35 Economist Heidi Shierholz 35 econometrics 35 ditherer 35 fiercely partisan 35 reductio ad absurdum 35 sophistic 35 polite 35 Understated 35 dauntingly complex 35 disarmingly 35 nannyish 35 handwringers 35 mealy mouthed 35 fiscal conservativism 35 Haley Sheheen 35 wittiness Squire 35 Casper Milquetoast 35 winded monologues 35 vacuousness 35 fiery rhetoric 35 prodigious fund raiser 35 similarly noncommittal 35 obscure 35 hamhanded 35 Kondratieff Wave 35 meaningless blather 35 orotund 35 seeming contradictions 35 tweedy 35 Julian Zelizer professor 35 overly moralistic 35 schoolmasterly 35 mockable 35 silver tongued 35 excruciatingly dull 35 Poizner Whitman 35 wordier 35 tawdrier 35 Joe Antos 35 bloviating 35 buzzwords 35 unemotional 35 compassionate conservativism 35 inane 35 bombastic rhetoric 35 prodigious fundraiser 35 undisguised glee 35 musing aloud 35 unspun 35 loonier 35 Mr. DIONNE 35 I'ma problem solver 35 slapdash 35 Laffer Curve 35 supply siders 35 bromides 35 doctrinaire 35 mild mannered demeanor 35 skilled orator 35 inveighing against 35 articulate 35 hyperbolic rhetoric 35 uxorious 35 unpoetic 35 testier 35 studiedly 35 MacGuineas 35 Martha Joynt Kumar 35 self effacing humor 35 condescending 35 vapid 35 sarcastic asides 35 bombast 35 squishier 35 economically illiterate 35 blunt 35 Mac Stipanovich 35 witty barbs 35 competent technocrat 35 refreshingly frank 35 wry wit 35 circumlocutions 35 jargons 35 readable prose 35 libertarian CATO Institute 35 jocose 35 liberal democrat 35 platitude 34 awe shucks 34 waspish 34 dreadfully dull 34 Thatcherite 34 disarmingly honest 34 sermonic 34 leftward leaning 34 incurious 34 paleoconservative 34 Blahous 34 inspirational oratory 34 Bob Somerby 34 bland 34 philosophical musings 34 yak yak 34 hi falutin 34 byzantine 34 CATO institute 34 mush mouthed 34 flippant 34 slinging barbs 34 serial flip flopper 34 sharpest jabs 34 he-said/she-said 34 eloquence 34 sharp witted 34 transcends partisanship 34 Whitman Poizner 34 similes metaphors 34 humorlessness 34 willfully obtuse 34 penny pincher 34 unabashed 34 caviling 34 tightwad 34 disobliging 34 hyperactively 34 flowery language 34 offputting 34 offbeat 34 pithy quote 34 ideologically compatible 34 faux populist 34 outsized personalities 34 speechwriter 34 Hans Hermann Hoppe 34 yah boo 34 maneuverer 34 passionately articulates 34 starry eyed idealist 34 priests bullying schoolmasters 34 Milton Shapp 34 meaningless drivel 34 grandstander 34 quotable 34 succinct summary 34 vague generalities 34 politically polarized 34 televised debates 34 barbed 34 incoherency 34 Wendell Wilkie 34 Richard Vatz 34 digestible bites 34 rhetorical excesses 34 nakedly partisan 34 showboaters 34 mismatched buddy 34 Allen C. Guelzo 34 gobbledegook 34 petty sniping 34 Taxachusetts 34 unfailingly upbeat 34 drearily familiar 34 uncurious 34 highbrow 34 arrogant egotistical 34 refreshingly devoid 34 wing nuttery 34 deadpan wit 34 Ponderous 34 uni dimensional 34 penchants 34 faux naif 34 Thomas Suddes 34 GONYEA 34 student Don Coorough 34 disdains 34 yawn inducing 34 self deprecatory 34 Daniel Drezner 34 Skewering 34 Nudge nudge 34 coldly calculating 34 wordiness 34 adviser Bob Shrum 34 navel gazing 34 boringly 34 perpetually tanned 34 banalities 34 Tim Pawlenty 34 facts ma'am 34 full throated 34 gasbag 34 gimcrack 34 Chandleresque 34 laconic drawl 34 bollix 34 freakonomics 34 avuncular 34 schoolyard taunts 34 exceptionalists 34 self aggrandising 34 sketchily drawn 34 unenlightening 34 pompous ass 34 wishy washy 34 FBN Neil Cavuto 34 plainspokenness 34 WHITE HOUSE WATCH 34 digestible chunks 34 uncritical cheerleader 34 antitax 34 dialogue crackles 34 environmentalism 34 expositional dialogue 34 bloviated 34 uttered peep 34 unreflective 34 disengenuous 34 cleareyed 34 headline grabbing stunts 34 Originalism 34 manager Chip Saltsman 34 handwaving 34 ramrod posture 34 LIASSON 34 unscripted 34 rebarbative 34 blathered 34 avowedly socialist 34 self indulgent 34 silver tongued orator 34 topical gags 34 explications 34 Ms. Radnofsky 34 institutionalist 34 opaquely 34 birther nonsense 34 Mohammad Khatami reformist 34 droll humor 34 flapdoodle 34 Fuzzy math 34 irreverant 34 nondefense discretionary 34 tub thumper 34 conservative ideologue 34 smartass 34 multi culturalist 34 CNN Candy Crowley 34 germane 34 refreshingly candid 34 green eyeshades 34 dull witted 34 soporific 34 inarticulate 34 doubletalk 34 partisan 34 pseudo intellectualism 34 charismatic orator 34 mild rebukes 34 mordant humor 34 overly deferential 34 non sensical 34 patrician 34 soundbite 34 schticky 34 clumsy exposition 34 tangential 34 Rooseveltian 34 Rabelaisian 34 redistributionism 34 Holmesian 34 Keynsian 34 oxy moron 34 blatantly partisan 34 self effacingly 34 stem winders 34 diffident 34 oversimplifies 34 bureaucratic 34 crackups 34 grandstanding 34 Repubicans 34 Robin Lakoff 34 fiscally conservative socially 34 po mo 34 Swiftian 34 often brilliant stratagems 34 Jack Handey 34 diplomat Mehdi Akhundzadeh 34 oxymorons 34 sophistical 34 stodgier 34 Mr. Dithers 34 chatterer 34 toe curlingly embarrassing 34 essayistic 34 Harold Stassen 34 simplifier 34 unforthcoming 34 cantankerous 34 politic 34 grandiloquence 34 irrelevantly 34 rabble rousing 34 self abasing 34 solipsistic 34 townhalls 34 chummy 34 deferential 34 SOTU speech 34 waffler 34 managerialism 34 intraparty warfare 34 forgivably 34 talky 34 mediagenic 34 talkfest 34 Penni Pier 34 impish wit 34 problem solver 34 scattershot 34 nerd 34 unrelatable 34 jargon laden 34 glibness 34 inanity 34 WBUR Martha Bebinger 33 erudition 33 libertarian bent 33 parsed 33 rhetorical flourish 33 Ryan Lizza 33 brusque rude 33 geekier 33 unflashy 33 trivial pursuits 33 soft spoken 33 laudatory 33 fury signifying 33 laidback 33 self referential 33 disputatious 33 Beckian 33 minutae 33 touchier 33 weasel wording 33 recondite 33 obfuscating 33 reductively 33 McCainism 33 triangulations 33 sound byte 33 strident 33 Darry Sragow Democratic 33 grandiloquent 33 quirky offbeat 33 Brownism 33 humdrum 33 passionless 33 self exculpation 33 YouTubed 33 snappish 33 Andres Manuel López Obrador 33 impassioned 33 ideologically homogenous 33 truthy 33 defies credulity 33 wry observation 33 demeanor belie 33 famously irascible 33 chattiness 33 charming rascal 33 polemical 33 David Tuerck 33 bloviator 33 radio talkshow host 33 Capra esque 33 emeritus Tom Brokaw 33 mumbly 33 trite 33 eyes glaze 33 gravitas 33 shoptalk 33 disingenious 33 intellectually honest 33 bureaucrat 33 apolitical 33 Trump birther 33 frank 33 conservative 33 globe trotting 33 hollow platitudes