Rick Perry's campaign has a word to describe opponent Carole Keeton Strayhorn. Every statement, every release, ever bleet bleet from the sheep has the word "shrill" in it before her name or any attack on her. Every time, the press put it in the newspaper. Isn't calling a female candidate "shrill" a little less than subtle in this day in age?
So, here's the contest. Let's come up with a word to submit to Strayhorn that they can place in every release, every statement, every attack on Rick Perry. This means it has to be clean if it were to be appropriate for the newspaper. Already excluded: asshole, impotent, and fetishist. So come up with your creative ideas in the comments.
Self-loathing
vain
smooth-talking
vapid
moronic
superficial
shallow
devious
underhanded
duplicitous
fatuous
foolish
...
I could go on. Not enough hours in the day.
supercilious
I've always loved that word...
incompetent
underperforming
sub-optimal
grating
overgroomed
bombastic
blowdried
slick (in a bad way)
failing
Not as spicy as these other posts, but I could see:
out of touch
disconnected
ineffectual
incapable
unfit
negligent
...etc. (not from a thesaurus, they just seemed appropriate and they were stream of consciousness).
If we are looking for a single word to cause listeners to be distrustful and disgusted I think that word - by November - will be "Republican".
arrogant,
begrudging,
doofus
and my personal favorite: smarmy
little pecker
Oops. That two words. Dick?
Damn. Forgot "spiteful".
gaseous
bilingual
Remember: "Adios, mo fo."
Ooh, i want to play...
partisan
stupid
pretty-boy
GOP puppet
neaderthal
two-faced
clueless
god I hope strayhorn's camp is reading these comments!
unctuous
ambiguous
effeminent