But as we saw, a number of fairly earnest candidates with decent political bona fides -- Buddy Roemer, Fred Karger, and, after a few brief appearances, Gary Johnson -- were simply excluded based on obscure, non-standardized "rules" involving poll results that seemed to change on a debate-by-debate basis.
KATHLEEN PARKER saw Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric too:Palin's recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate.
Take Kathleen Parker, for example, writing in the National Review: Palin's recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate.
This was another example, I argued, of how baseball sends unflattering, and perhaps unwitting, code messages about earnest minority candidates.
"It is a matter of degrees and everyone, including myself, has to build a sense of how earnest these candidates are.
Starting in earnest this week, candidates across the country are facing each other in high-profile, high-risk debates that political consultants say could matter more than anything else they do before Election Day.
The struggle to shake up a decade of conservative dominance over Iran's two major political institutions has kicked off in earnest, as candidates officially begin their week-long campaigns before two important elections.
The Bogberry laid down an encouraging marker for its more earnest Guineas candidates (apparently led by Jupiter Pluvius) when third in the Craven Stakes at Newmarket last week, while Moonstone made an excellent debut here behind Winchester, one of Weld's winners.
Examples: In all its ruthlessness, truth, for starters, says that Europe, in full comprehension of what it was doing, decided last year to give the posts of president and high representative for foreign affairs created in its new constitution to two earnest but modest candidates who could not lead.
