Word: wonk
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wonk Wilts...
...trouble, and finally, set Gore up for a defeat. It was Bush, after all, who charmed voters, not Gore. It was Bush who managed to captivate with his easy laugh and his loose-limbed grace. Gore was stuck with the old caricature: A stiff, a robot, a typical policy wonk...
...this wonk business: I spoke with Gore in his hotel room the week before last. Having completed a day of Regis, Oprah, Saturday Night Live and the Al Smith dinner, and set to wake up at 5 a.m. to do the Today show, he stretched out and had a beer. It was close to midnight. He should have been exhausted. Instead, in answer to my questions, he sailed into exquisitely detailed, many-referenced and well-over-my-head explanations of the economy, the arms race and anything else his mind embraced...
...candidate for president in 2000, just as he was in 1996. Ring a bell? He's sort of a big guy, gray hair, a tanned-and-rested aging businessman's quality about him. He's participated in a third-party debate or two, and shows up on the occasional wonk-leaning talk show, usually amid great condescension. The Libertarians would love it if everybody knew Harry Browne's name. But they'd much rather you knew theirs. They've been occupying a calm, studied place on the fringe of American politics since 1972, and they're not going anywhere - mainly...
...Gore was a wonk at Harvard," the Republican Reassurer said, and hung...