Word: candor
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Bush said some things that were implicitly off the record and will stay that way. He was doing what McCain does, which is create an understanding with a reporter. In return for letting his guard down, Bush expects not to see his candor used against him. Fair enough. As for South Carolina, where this week's primary may decide his fate, Bush seemed genuinely confident. "You can't win the Republican primary sounding like a Democrat," he said of McCain as he squinted into the sun. "Not in this state...
...With a modernist's practiced candor, Maumort discloses the most intimate details of his adolescent sexual desires, but yet there is necessarily something he holds back in his revelations. It is crucial to Maumort's project of self-revelation that he lingers on the intimate details of his sexuality; for him, private life is indissoluble from the secrets of sexual desire. And so it makes sense that during these very disclosures, we see the limitations of Maumort as a man. It seems as though he never is compelled to ask himself, do I dare? During his explorations of homosexuality...
...party that had been sliding along blithely since the failure of the Contract with America, the fall of the House of Gingrich and the nightmare of impeachment. Outside the bubbles of Washington and Austin, the true threat that McCain posed to Bush was abundantly clear. One runs on candor and fumes; the other hides in the motorcade. One takes a punch and looks stronger; the other throws a punch and looks weaker. One seems to delight in crashing the party; the other drapes the Republican establishment around his neck like a mink...
...much of the time, making it up as he goes along. Some of his thinking seems to have evolved out of discussions no more formal than the rolling press conferences on his Straight Talk Express. He likes to admit what he doesn't know--a risky kind of candor for a candidate who wants to be taken seriously--and he's sometimes ready to scrap a policy on the spot. When Jonathan Chait of the New Republic questioned his commitment to the dispossessed--pointing out that McCain's tax-cut plan does nothing for low-income people--McCain said, "Maybe...
Suddenly, with the victory of John McCain last week, spin is out and candor is in. In the course of 114 town meetings in New Hampshire, McCain was asked a thousand questions and dodged none. The Senator released every medical record, herpetic lesions and all. The breakup of his first marriage? McCain takes the blame. As to what the biggest mistake of his life was, McCain reminded voters of the Keating Five scandal. George W. Bush blithely cited his trade of Sammy Sosa. McCain's book is a signed confession of his sins--being a spoiled brat at Episcopal High...