John Hood writes:
And Malkin is right in her conclusion that if this were a different
candidate, one that the media didn’t dig so much, a string of such
gaffes would have long ago become a central theme of the campaign
coverage.
I skipped ahead in my copy of Safire’s Political Dictionary to the entry for “blooper”:
George W. Bush’s verbal bloopers quickly became known as Bushisms, a reprise of a word used by Slate magazine editor Jacob Weisberg about the elder Bush’s linguistic lapses. … In a 2001 appearance at his alma mater, Yale University, President Bush kidded himself about such malapropisms: “My critics don’t realize I don’t make verbal gaffes; I’m speaking in the perfect forms and rhythms of ancient haiku.”
