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(Click for frequent words.) 68 wonk 64 wonkish 58 policy wonks 58 pragmatist 56 problem solver 56 schmoozer 55 technocrat 54 bureaucrat 53 politician 52 bomb thrower 51 wonkery 51 speechwriter 51 compromiser 51 politically savvy 51 incrementalist 50 debater 50 ideologue 50 number cruncher 50 backslapper 50 triangulator 50 skilled communicator 50 canny politician 50 politically astute 49 deregulator 49 Dan Shomon 49 gifted orator 49 speechmaker 49 egghead 49 doctrinaire liberal 49 nonideological 49 urbane 49 owlish 48 erudite 48 wonks 48 wonkishness 48 budgeteer 48 skilled debater 48 windbag 48 long windedness 48 thinker 47 mild mannered 47 dilettante 47 supply sider 47 postpartisan 47 JM Mac Stipanovich 47 I'ma problem solver 47 conservative ideologue 47 polemicist 47 ideologically rigid 47 technocratic 46 prevaricator 46 workaholic 46 oratorical skill 46 nonpolitician 46 Charles Blahous 46 bookish 46 rigid ideologue 46 gadfly 46 political infighter 46 wing ideologue 46 ditherer 46 statesman 46 transcending partisanship 46 shrewd politician 46 charismatically challenged 46 centrist 45 politican 45 liberal democrat 45 bipartisan problem solver 45 talker 45 rhetorician 45 consummate politician 45 establishmentarian 45 plainspoken 45 free marketeer 45 Elaine Kamarck 45 realist 45 formidable debater 45 grandstander 45 idealist 45 wordsmith 45 maneuverer 45 politically adroit 45 Joe Romm 45 disarmingly charming 45 pragmatic centrist 45 Ron Dotzauer 45 litigator 45 policymaker 44 professorial 44 unexcitable 44 controversialist 44 silver tongued orator 44 gifted communicator 44 multilateralist 44 Clintonite 44 hyperpartisan 44 self effacing 44 astute politician 44 Mr. Dithers 44 self deprecatingly 44 bookish intellectual 44 moralist 44 nitpicker 44 rigidly ideological 44 ironist 44 bon vivant 44 daydreamer 44 orator 44 Gov. Moonbeam 44 apparatchik 44 tax increaser 44 Still Siripat described 43 Midwesterner 43 muckraker 43 Rhodes scholar 43 global warming skeptic 43 soft spoken 43 penny pincher 43 faceless bureaucrat 43 dealmaker 43 curmudgeon 43 brilliant orator 43 reformer 43 professorial demeanor 43 temperamentally unsuited 43 fiscally conservative socially 43 Pete Wehner 43 liberal 43 skillful debater 43 skilled orator 43 Wanniski 43 peacenik 43 AEI scholars 43 pragmatic 43 personable 43 Eurocrat 43 polymath 43 infighter 43 towering intellect 43 waffly 43 outdoorswoman 43 Nixon speechwriter 43 fearmonger 43 Woodrow Wilcox 43 Northeasterner 43 spinmeister 43 stemwinder 43 consultant Mary Matalin 43 affable 43 windmill tilting 43 geek 43 articulate 42 satirist PJ O'Rourke 42 intellectually incurious 42 newshound 42 brainy 42 self deprecating 42 commonsense conservatism 42 dissembler 42 panderer 42 numbers cruncher 42 Governor Moonbeam 42 leftish 42 nerd 42 bureaucratic infighter 42 hyperarticulate 42 green eyeshade 42 fiscally conservative 42 starry eyed idealist 42 persuader 42 bloviator 42 bumbler 42 Darry Sragow Democratic 42 I'ma doer 42 neophyte 42 quick witted 42 Casper Milquetoast 42 maverick 42 Dickie Pilager 42 backwoodsman 42 scribbler 42 autodidact 42 Goldy Hyder 42 Hank Sheinkopf Democratic 42 nothingburger 42 bureaucratese 42 waffler 42 disarming candor 42 Doug Sosnik 42 risk taker 42 Daniel Drezner 42 pithy quote 42 congenital liar 42 demeanor belies 42 famously loquacious 42 ink stained wretch 42 Taxachusetts 42 institutionalist 42 democrat 42 steel magnolia 42 Wall Streeter 42 dour Scotsman 42 arrogant egotistical 42 rabble rouser 42 dreamer 42 Mungo MacCallum 42 spin meister 42 statesperson 42 Trumanesque 42 silver tongued 42 flip floppery 41 genial 41 Slate Mickey Kaus 41 dirty trickster 41 Lester Thurow 41 exceedingly polite 41 blogger Matthew Yglesias 41 Cesar Conda 41 communicator 41 conversationalist 41 Bjorn Lomborg Danish 41 intellectually coherent 41 Republian 41 Whouley 41 pragmatism 41 gladhanding 41 politico 41 Bjørn Lomborg 41 troubleshooter 41 pugnaciousness 41 arrogant bastard 41 oceanic sailor 41 Wendell Wilkie 41 disarmingly candid 41 newspaperman 41 personable approachable 41 ward heeler 41 sharp witted 41 Arnie Arnesen 41 strict constitutionalist 41 commentator James Carville 41 Abner Mikva 41 mavericky 41 exaggerator 41 populariser 41 sophisticate 41 maverick reformer 41 telegenic politician 41 Reaganesque 41 amiable 41 bloviation 41 redistributionist 41 naysayer 41 irascibility 41 smut peddler 41 punster 41 Ryan Lizza 41 glib 41 networker 41 seasoned debater 41 electrifying oratory 41 eloquent orator 41 unpartisan 41 pragmatic problem solver 41 taxer 41 pompous arrogant 41 studious 41 unfailingly courteous 41 pontificator 41 felicitous phrase 41 speechwriter Peggy Noonan 41 skeptic 41 Personable 41 Russ Dondero 41 delegator 41 persuasive communicator 41 tightwad 41 micromanager 41 operative Mary Matalin 41 careerist 41 Mac Stipanovich 41 Democrat 41 Brownite 40 pen pusher 40 charming witty 40 gregarious 40 Self deprecating 40 stateswoman 40 Ogsbury 40 loose cannon 40 earmarker 40 prodigious fundraiser 40 probusiness 40 pencil pusher 40 prose stylist 40 deliberately obtuse 40 affable approachable 40 Affable 40 sharp tongued 40 worrywart 40 promiser 40 amiable dunce 40 outwardly bland 40 moonbat 40 bookworm 40 tree hugger 40 David Kusnet 40 wonkiest 40 hopelessly idealistic 40 billionaire financier Warren Buffett 40 iconoclast 40 cynic 40 brainiac 40 arrogant elitists 40 competent technocrat 40 question asker 40 finger wagger 40 Mike Konczal 40 Spiliotes 40 optimist 40 Michael Whouley 40 bureaucrats 40 Pat Shortridge 40 underminer 40 diploma Stumbrys 40 businessperson 40 Lambrew 40 midwesterner 40 wittiness Squire 40 hyper partisan 40 Self effacing 40 nerdish 40 mudslinger 40 beancounter 40 consultant Bob Shrum 40 Rhodes Scholar 40 economist Dani Rodrik 40 Anglophile 40 prodigious fund raiser 40 hardnosed 40 garrulous 40 pompous self righteous 40 proselytizer 40 gobbledy gook 40 Alessandro Nicolo 40 smarty pants 40 raconteur 40 ski bum 40 JoDee Winterhof 40 scrupulously honest 40 keen intellect 40 explainer 40 charming raconteur 40 smartass 40 glittering generalities 40 articulateness 40 multi tasker 40 globetrotter 40 garbled syntax 40 Amar Bhide 40 strategist Ken Khachigian 40 fiscal conservatism 40 Obamaesque 40 Peter Donolo 40 elect doer 40 uncharismatic 40 blithering idiot 40 lilting accent 39 urban sophisticate 39 fundamentally unserious 39 junkie 39 lawyerly 39 personable demeanor 39 smart aleck 39 dabbler 39 kibitzer 39 nit picker 39 bland inoffensive 39 unquotable 39 fence straddler 39 Compassionate conservatism 39 Clintonesque 39 milquetoast 39 hopeless optimist 39 Continetti 39 rugged outdoorsman 39 TPaw 39 eminently electable 39 Jerry Yanover 39 arch Blairite 39 worrier 39 solipsist 39 pseudo intellectual 39 gray eminence 39 displayed steadiness 39 insidery 39 strategic thinker 39 showhorse 39 Democratic strategist Darry 39 refreshingly blunt 39 Granite Stater 39 bloviates 39 idealogue 39 Dante Scala professor 39 managerial competence 39 Alden Pyle 39 jargony 39 Ideological purity 39 pompous twit 39 Drey Samuelson Johnson 39 institutionalists 39 telegenic 39 multi culturalist 39 globe trotter 39 Chryson 39 Dan Schnur Republican 39 Chip Terhune 39 analyst Stan Collender 39 mumbler 39 pro choicer 39 Darry Sragow 39 Harold Stassen 39 Don Sipple 39 Les Gelb 39 Norm Ornstein political 39 Sen. Dave Durenberger 39 blowhard 39 nerdy 39 Temperamentally 39 elect Giorgos Kaminis 39 naif 39 Joyce Purnick 39 Russophile 39 Ken Boessenkool 39 techno geek 39 Rahmbo 39 Naderite 39 acerbic tongue 39 pugnacious 39 libertarian 39 affability 39 Ah nold 39 GOPer 39 sentimentalist 39 dweeb 39 pols 39 shlumpy 39 snappish 39 self effacingly 39 skirt chaser 39 Stantis 39 arch manipulator 39 Theodore Sorensen 39 Lo bama instead 39 wheeler dealer 39 Jeanne Kirkpatrick 39 Hemingway esque 39 disarming frankness 39 nicknamed Rahmbo 39 fundamentally deregulator 39 temperamentally suited 39 Brent Budowsky 39 strategist Dan Schnur 39 historian Diane Ravitch 39 salon.com headlined 39 Pierre Rinfret 39 stem winder 39 Norman Ornstein congressional 39 wishful thinker 39 Carrie Severino 39 political maneuverer 39 prig 39 Supreme Court clerkship 39 arguer 39 Hillaryland 39 fluent Mandarin speaker 39 verbal gaffes 39 aide 39 Pollyanna ish 39 grandee 39 bespectacled 39 blogger Markos Moulitsas 39 op ed columnist 39 Donald F. Kettl 39 rostered ELCA pastor 39 Straight Talker 39 George Neumayr 39 Clintonomics 39 unconservative 39 dullard 38 Steve Jarding 38 garbageman 38 Peter Wehner 38 humorless 38 doubletalk 38 lofty rhetoric 38 farseeing 38 McCainiac 38 councilor Howard Moscoe 38 pricklier 38 boiled boilerplate 38 Maria Echaveste 38 bare knuckle politics 38 ultra Blairite 38 David Yepsen 38 Christian Sinderman 38 Rahaf Harfoush 38 effete 38 investment banker 38 genial demeanor 38 Murray Weidenbaum 38 hard nosed 38 commentator Dan Proft 38 clubbable 38 Yankee hater 38 Patrick Muttart 38 weaselly 38 nay sayer 38 tea partier 38 poseur 38 Lyn Nofziger 38 environmentalist 38 self deprecating wit 38 zealot 38 omnivorous reader 38 outsize personality 38 scientifically illiterate 38 incurious 38 Mudcat Saunders 38 centrism 38 loquacious 38 blogger Matt Yglesias 38 verbose 38 intellectual snob 38 Kieran Mahoney 38 Jeri Kehn 38 ass kisser 38 movie fanatic Carvey 38 avuncular 38 fence straddlers 38 intellectual firepower 38 refreshingly frank 38 tactician Karl Rove 38 avowed socialist 38 bibliophile 38 Stanley Collender budget 38 Clintonista 38 Ken Duberstein 38 freethinker 38 green eyeshades 38 roader 38 Ms. Radnofsky 38 Jan Brewer Bumbling 38 publicity hound 38 unabashedly liberal 38 mangled syntax 38 gasbag 38 smooth talker 38 Cold Warrior 38 serial exaggerator 38 Congressman Shays 38 urbane witty 38 droll wit 38 Rham Emanuel 38 dry wit 38 consultant Sig Rogich 38 operative Donna Brazile 38 Stanford Hoover Institution 38 Beltway insiders 38 charming rascal 38 brown noser 38 darting glances 38 rigid ideology 38 tub thumper 38 politics 38 poli sci 38 tart tongued 38 Ms. LeBreton 38 woolly minded 38 Douglas Muzzio professor 38 bone fides 38 biting wit 38 fussbudget 38 Teresa Vilmain 38 shlub 38 doublespeak 38 Dennis Goldford professor 38 Poizner Whitman 38 bungler 38 bien pensant 38 Chris Cilizza 38 suffer fools gladly 38 sarcastic wit 38 avoider 38 unstatesmanlike 38 intellectually curious 38 wonky 38 Congressman Nussle 38 Micah Lasher 38 Myron Magnet 38 Brad Zubyk 38 Greenspeak 38 razor sharp wit 38 Al Runte 38 decentralist 38 pro lifer 38 Policy Wonk 38 flâneur 38 doctrinaire 38 Reagan speechwriter 38 Andre Sapir 38 Ira Magaziner 38 Douglas Sosnik 38 Franni Franken 38 speechmakers 38 Emanuel whirling 38 Judith Enck 38 electable 38 Rhetorical flourishes 38 Northwesterner 38 Josh Barro 38 Adam Walinsky 38 Arthur Milnes 38 libertarian bent 38 upstater 38 Landon Parvin 38 chatterbox 38 Palinesque 38 rock ribbed 38 Pollyanna 38 blogger Ezra Klein 38 aide Mary Matalin 38 Wargotz 38 donnish 38 Bill Nojay 38 nutcase 38 blunderer 38 swaggering cowboy 38 deregulators 38 schoolmarmish 38 neo Thatcherite 38 razor tongued 38 acerbic 38 Clive Crook 38 Noam Scheiber 38 congressmember 38 francophile 38 Judith Steinberg 38 bullshitter 38 Sovietologist 38 verbal tic 38 wonkiness 38 theorist 38 dour Scot 38 Wy Spano 38 Wayne Errington 38 Ted Van Dyk 38 Johnsonian 38 good humored 38 platitudes 38 mover shaker 38 Great Communicator 38 Libertarian leanings 38 intellectually honest 38 loner 38 Rosty 38 Beltway pundits 38 commentator Arianna Huffington 38 speechifying 37 éminence grise 37 noodge 37 sycophant 37 bargainer 37 circumlocution 37 pleasantly bland 37 carpet bagger 37 smartypants 37 Romney 37 Donald Segretti 37 women libber 37 ideologues 37 liberalism 37 Tebelius 37 Lincolnesque 37 striver 37 Donolo 37 fantasist 37 sphinxlike 37 provocateur 37 spouting platitudes 37 Sheri Annis 37 Josh Isay 37 deadpan wit 37 autobiographer 37 Samuel Thernstrom 37 serial flip flopper 37 tweedy 37 prickly personality 37 deadpan sarcasm 37 denizen 37 smart alecky 37 bitter clingers 37 ideological soulmate 37 Henry Jacek 37 speechwriting 37 Alan Frumin 37 mucky muck 37 civil servant 37 plutocrat 37 libertarian CATO Institute 37 wise Latina remark 37 pundit 37 Cilizza 37 pompous ass 37 beltway insiders 37 brusque rude 37 techno phobe 37 Cosmo centerfold 37 chatterer 37 flatterer 37 originalist 37 Soft spoken 37 geeky 37 eloquent 37 Joe Antos 37 famously irascible 37 raving maniac 37 fabulist 37 Dennis Goldford 37 Demo crat 37 Dave Mudcat Saunders 37 whippersnapper 37 Deaniac 37 handwringers 37 Climate Czar 37 Karl Rovian 37 Peter Orzag 37 Austrian bodybuilder 37 Swampscott selectman 37 aw shucks charm 37 gaffe prone Biden 37 bon viveur 37 folksy 37 Jonetta Rose Barras 37 perpetual optimist 37 excellent communicator 37 strategists James Carville 37 Leslie Knope 37 rube 37 equivocator 37 oneliners 37 Dennis Dresang 37 economist Greg Mankiw 37 Pawlenty 37 procrastinator 37 consumate 37 Steve Maviglio 37 profligate spender 37 entertainer Kinky Friedman 37 gadabout 37 Were Ia 37 mensch 37 intriguer 37 Delingpole 37 Sinodinos 37 neo Keynesian 37 ankle biter 37 willful delusion 37 Richard Wolffe 37 turd blossom 37 gumshoe 37 Richard Worzel 37 wolfish grin 37 consultant Frank Luntz 37 Wyomingite 37 Kitzhaber 37 downsizer 37 pot stirrer 37 Effete 37 Michael Tomasky 37 gym rat 37 outdoorsman 37 Ms. Saujani 37 eloquence 37 Nancy Soderberg 37 devout atheist 37 Allan Lichtman 37 nakedly ambitious 37 E verybody 37 novelist Ayn Rand 37 unerring ear 37 politically incorrect verbal broadsides 37 demagogue 37 bollix 37 Robert D. Holsworth 37 grumbler 37 common sensical 37 incurable optimist 37 Anthony Carbonetti 37 trough swillers 37 dogmatist 37 Micah Sifry 37 humourist 37 Anne Dunsmore 37 everyman 37 headmaster Clive Merrison 37 avid wilderness trekker 37 Jill Alper 37 caviling 37 flip flopper 37 Donald Kettl 37 charismatic orator 37 coupon clipper 37 Bi partisanship 37 Reaganite 37 Hilzoy 37 simplifier 37 off puttingly 37 John DiStaso 37 intellectually nimble 37 Daniel Larison 37 Karen Tumulty 37 Douglas Muzzio 37 philosopher king 37 compassionate conservativism 37 Dennis Goldford political 37 encyclopedic command 37 Tea Partier 37 elitist snob 37 green eyeshades Senate Majority 37 adviser Phil Gramm 37 tinkerer 37 pugnacity 37 Lisa Vorderbrueggen covers 37 dunce 37 diarist 37 consultant James Carville 37 gimlet eyed 37 incisive wit 37 quick witted sharp tongued 37 airhead 37 Paavo Lipponen 37 John Judis 37 spindoctor 37 certifiable genius 37 unfailingly upbeat 37 greedy geezers 37 meddler 37 alderman Edwin Eisendrath 37 Hemingwayesque 37 Gov. Madeleine Kunin 37 baseball lifer 37 gaffe prone 37 strategist Rich Galen 37 Clintonian 37 arguers 37 elegant prose 37 leftward leaning 37 wordsmithing 37 Giuiliani 37 rhetoric 37 monomaniac 37 PALIN Says 37 graying curly hair 37 Dan Gerstein 37 Alexander Lamis 37 bureacrat 37 backbencher 37 Jesuit seminarian 37 David Tuerck 37 adviser Tucker Eskew 37 squint eyed 37 lite guv 37 Neoconservative 37 Beltway conventional wisdom 37 lovable scoundrel 37 Theo Faron Clive Owen 37 judge Abner Mikva 37 aw shucks persona 37 twitcher 37 administrator Gail Wilensky 37 Kissingerian 37 satirist 37 Yuval Levin 37 swearer 37 dittohead 37 consummate optimist 37 Kim Strassel 37 bloviating 37 speak extemporaneously 37 lobbyist Bilbray 37 wry wit 37 suffer fools 37 dithery 37 razor sharp intellect 37 David Armano 37 Stu Rothenberg 37 hizzoner 37 rhetorical flourishes 37 unbeholden 37 Arne Carlson 37 arrogant conceited 37 Stan Collender 37 wimp 37 liberals 37 Kareem Crayton 37 leftwinger 37 Jeremiah Baumann 36 Sen. Howard Metzenbaum 36 lobbing softballs 36 engaging conversationalist 36 fogy 36 intellect 36 Kremlinologist 36 DiFi 36 demeanor belie 36 paleoconservative 36 bluffer 36 hardheaded 36 naïf 36 Germanic accent 36 native Vermonter 36 nattering nabob 36 Andrea Tantaros 36 socially progressive 36 realpolitik 36 Robert Heilbroner 36 Ed Stelmach 36 rhetorical overkill 36 lawmaker Hirohisa Fujii 36 straightman 36 Julian Zelizer congressional 36 Ms Kernot 36 ineloquent 36 Jean Bethke Elshtain 36 voracious reader 36 Heather Zichal 36 irrepressibly cheerful 36 witty self deprecating 36 educator 36 unspun 36 Doug Hattaway 36 dolt 36 SI Hayakawa 36 permabear 36 intellectually arrogant 36 Amory Lovins 36 malaprop 36 jargon spouting 36 statistician Bjorn Lomborg 36 Jed Bartlet 36 clever wordsmith 36 voluble 36 Economist Heidi Shierholz 36 National Rifle Assn 36 townie 36 self deprecating humor 36 Unassuming 36 modernizer 36 hardboiled 36 Stalinist ruthlessness 36 budgeter 36 miserable SOB 36 vaguely creepy 36 Quin Hillyer 36 partisan hacks 36 Europhile 36 Randy Enwright 36 idealistic 36 flip floppers 36 speechwriter Jon Favreau 36 guttersnipe 36 Democrat Al Checchi 36 presentational skills 36 bootstraps biography 36 knuckle dragger 36 columnist Dana Milbank 36 Sam Gindin 36 David Rothkopf 36 CATO institute 36 senator 36 effete snob 36 philo Semite 36 overachiever 36 nebbish 36 nerdily 36 conservative 36 Centrism 36 bi partisanship 36 Tory modernizer 36 consummate networker 36 professor Doug Muzzio 36 hug thug 36 T Paw 36 jetsetter 36 folksy charm 36 Volgy 36 Kennedyesque