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And while I do NOT believe that the "empty-suit" strategy (i.e. NObama) of putting up "feel-good" candidates is good for the GOP, we do need to select candidates who have a broad-based appeal; the bottom line is, you can't apply your principles if you can't get elected.
RNC purity test designed to 'stick it' to Steele, ally claims 2009
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This coming from a supporter of Bush The Idiot King 43, who was the biggest empty-suit out there if there ever was one.
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Even the most cursory analysis of any of their statements exposes them to be a tissue-paper-thin covering for a bunch of empty-suit rhetoric.
Think Progress » Ridge Defends Napolitano From Right-Wing Attacks: The Criticisms Are ‘Misplaced’ 2010
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Ken H. December 28th, 2009 9: 54 am ET holy crap, it is about time this empty-suit did something.
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Charlie Crist has been a self-serving empty-suit governor.
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His “speechifying” is empty-suit rhetoric with no details as to “how”.
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Result: nada He was followed, at a great distance, by empty-suit weirdo Mitt Romney.
Kara Vallow: The CPAC Rodeo Roundup Kara Vallow 2010
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Sure that doesn't sound like a lot, but even if you're stuck with the most craven empty-suit fat cat you can imagine, they'll still hear "no more lobbyist-paid junkets, no more yucking it up on cable news, no more taxpayer funded meal ticket," and that's pretty terrifying even to the cold-hearted cynics in congress.
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Sure that doesn't sound like a lot, but even if you're stuck with the most craven empty-suit fat cat you can imagine, they'll still hear "no more lobbyist-paid junkets, no more yucking it up on cable news, no more taxpayer funded meal ticket," and that's pretty terrifying even to the cold-hearted cynics in congress.
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What did these jazzed up ideologues (typically in sleek 3-piece suits-to me representing clever covers for the complete inner void; the expression empty-suit comes to mind) do to places like Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba (through vicious embargoes and ideological inhumanity), and now in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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