Stacey!!

[Speedy]

Steve G. wrote:
What Trump deserves is Stephen Colbert.
Use a comedian to reply to a buffoon.

This^

[Lemon Drop]

Of the last 10 people to do this, none have particularly strong speech-making skills nor anything about them that would spark my interest as a listener.

Stacey is different. I generally don't care about this speech at all, but this time I will.

The last ten, beginning with last year:

Joe Kennedy III
Nikki Haley
Joni Ernst
Kathy McMorris Rogers
Marco Rubio (well that one was funny at least)
Mitch Daniels
Paul Ryan
Bob McDonnell (before he went to jail)
Kathleen Sebelius
Jim Webb

[Speedy]

Lemon Drop wrote:
Of the last 10 people to do this, none have particularly strong speech-making skills nor anything about them that would spark my interest as a listener.

Stacey is different. I generally don't care about this speech at all, but this time I will.

The last ten, beginning with last year:

Joe Kennedy III
Nikki Haley
Joni Ernst
Kathy McMorris Rogers
Marco Rubio (well that one was funny at least)
Mitch Daniels
Paul Ryan
Bob McDonnell (before he went to jail)
Kathleen Sebelius
Jim Webb

Bobby Jindal really should be added to your list.

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Speedy wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
Of the last 10 people to do this, none have particularly strong speech-making skills nor anything about them that would spark my interest as a listener.

Stacey is different. I generally don't care about this speech at all, but this time I will.

The last ten, beginning with last year:

Joe Kennedy III
Nikki Haley
Joni Ernst
Kathy McMorris Rogers
Marco Rubio (well that one was funny at least)
Mitch Daniels
Paul Ryan
Bob McDonnell (before he went to jail)
Kathleen Sebelius
Jim Webb

Bobby Jindal really should be added to your list.
He never did a SOTU address response tho, that's why he's not on there.

He's incredibly bad speech was a response to Pres Obama's address to the nation regarding the stimulus.

[Speedy]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
Of the last 10 people to do this, none have particularly strong speech-making skills nor anything about them that would spark my interest as a listener.

Stacey is different. I generally don't care about this speech at all, but this time I will.

The last ten, beginning with last year:

Joe Kennedy III
Nikki Haley
Joni Ernst
Kathy McMorris Rogers
Marco Rubio (well that one was funny at least)
Mitch Daniels
Paul Ryan
Bob McDonnell (before he went to jail)
Kathleen Sebelius
Jim Webb

Bobby Jindal really should be added to your list.
He never did a SOTU address response tho, that's why he's not on there.

He's incredibly bad speech was a response to Pres Obama's address to the nation regarding the stimulus.
Thanks for the correction!

[vision63]

I liked Joe Kennedy's

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vision63 wrote:
I liked Joe Kennedy's

Content was good, delivery wasn't great. Also I think it was pretty tone deaf to select a white male with inherited power and wealth in response to Donald Trump.

[$tevie]

vision63 wrote:
I liked Joe Kennedy's

I liked it, too, however toward the end it began to feel that it was running long which probably means it wasn't quite engaging enough for prime time.

[vision63]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=vision63]
I liked Joe Kennedy's

Content was good, delivery wasn't great. Also I think it was pretty tone deaf to select a white male with inherited power and wealth in response to Donald Trump.
I get that. But then I always cringe when they do something like that because I really don't like pandering and it always seems forced. Abrams is so incredibly worthy right now and she feels like right now. Hopefully, she can be the fulcrum (along with Gillem and the not paid enough attention to Mike Espy of Mississippi) to blueing up the South somewhat. November made them extra real. I'm hoping the closeness of those races help detach Republicans from kowtowing to Mitch and Donald and try to salvage themselves because Nov 2020 is coming and bunches of them will be vulnerable.

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vision63 wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
[quote=vision63]
I liked Joe Kennedy's

Content was good, delivery wasn't great. Also I think it was pretty tone deaf to select a white male with inherited power and wealth in response to Donald Trump.
I get that. But then I always cringe when they do something like that because I really don't like pandering and it always seems forced. Abrams is so incredibly worthy right now and she feels like right now. Hopefully, she can be the fulcrum (along with Gillem and the not paid enough attention to Mike Espy of Mississippi) to blueing up the South somewhat. November made them extra real. I'm hoping the closeness of those races help detach Republicans from kowtowing to Mitch and Donald and try to salvage themselves because Nov 2020 is coming and bunches of them will be vulnerable.
Yes I want to see a lot more Abrams, Espy, and Gillem and all the people they will expire and whose names we don't know yet.