Comments on: One of Paul Ryan’s speechwriters…

By: foxmarks

foxmarks — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:19:59 +0000

Not much different than being an ad writer. Know the audience, know the product, and appeal to emotion.

If I am never President, I might still someday write a Presidential speech.

By: Simon Kenton

Simon Kenton — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:33:22 +0000

I kill with a crossbow quarrel. The deer go down in seconds. It’s a matter of passing the broadhead through the aortic arch.

Perhaps where Mr. Scully lives they have hospice care available for deer and elk. Around here, I am their better choice. Absent the quarrel or the bullet, their choices are to die hit by a car, which means laying arount with stick-snapped legs in a crowd of nervous or sobbing bystanders until a warden can be found to shoot them; or by a pack of coyotes that will start eating their gut area before they have expired; or by a lion, which will also begin to eat them before the deer is dead.

By: parker

parker — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:54:53 +0000

Rifle, shotgun, and pistol hunters can quickly put the animal down. The average bow hunter does not kill quickly. I know bow hunters who have followed the blood trail for hundreds of yards before they find the deer and often it requires a slit throat to finish off the animal.

By: rickl

rickl — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:02:18 +0000

So when did political speechwriting start? I don’t believe that Washington or Lincoln employed speechwriters.