Word: tractionless
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...genius of this scurrilous political work is that it is being done just at the moment when George W. Bush really is behaving like a f------ moron. His operation is the Original Austin Amateur Hour. Dubya's tractionless, spluttering campaign, belching smoke and throwing rods, seeming to do everything wrong post-Labor Day - arguing idiotically about the debates, for example - seems in itself to dramatize the supposed brain deficit that has been the subject of whispers and eye-rollings for months...
...etymon is in old English wrestling-to have on the hip; to render an opponent powerless because tractionless...
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