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Originally posted by Gattigap
Speaking of, if you wanted to see the opposite end of the spectrum at the RNC, listen to Frist's speech (which was just before prime time). The man was awful -- hawking Bush's health care plan (admittedly, a tough sell under any conditions) -- but the man sounded like a street vendor selling snake oil.

FWIW, Andrew Sullivan had a similar take on the GOP Senate Majority leader.

The highpoint of this section was the speech of Bill Frist. I've never really listened to him give a speech before and this one was frighteningly bad. He has a cadaverous face and a terrifying smile. His first anecdote made no sense at all. His denunication of trial lawyers - the one moment when he didn't look like a funeral director - left him wild-eyed and awkward-gestured. He spoke as if to a bunch of seven year olds in their second language. How did this guy ever get to a position of leadership? He's the Senate Majority Leader and, on a bad day, he'd give small kids nightmares. His speech was a mishmash of comic cliches, pathetically contrived hand movements, that robotic swivel from teleprompTer screen to teleprompTer screen, and crude demagoguery. When you see who really runs the GOP (funny Tom DeLay isn't in prime time, isn't it?), you begin to realize why a cross-dressing ex-mayor, a dissident Californian and an unelected ex-librarian are among its major spokespeople.