But after everything else, standing up in the Rose Garden or on your MSNBC soapbox and disparaging the personal integrity or humanity of the opponents whose earnest input your allies just rejected is, frankly, rude.
But with only a week to go before the election, it is hard to see how such an earnest -- and according to opponents, desperate -- ad without any October surprises can have much traction.
Because she presides over a broad coalition, she will have more free television time than her opponents when campaigning starts in earnest in August, as well as more money.
Reports on savings and threats of closure are minor skirmishes in a battle that cannot start in earnest until after the election reveals which opponents the BBC will face.
Hummels trotted back to the other end of the field and began playing with the kind of earnest muscularity that had demoralised generations of opponents before the advent of Klinsmann and Löw.
He did not join the Bolsheviks until 1918, a year in which the Russian Civil War, between the Bolsheviks and a coalition of opponents known as the White Army, began in earnest.
Many of his loyalists believe that a vendetta against him began in earnest in 2016, when the National Congress, controlled by right-wing opponents of the Workers Partyy, impeached his protégée and successor in office, President Dilma Rousseff.
Their speeches were marked by gentlemanly gestures of mutual respect, reminders that political opponents must not be cast as enemies, and earnest assurances that they would focus on the issues rather than denigrate the democratic process by making personal attacks..
Mr. Sarkozy trails Mr. Hollande in opinion polls, but now that he has a specific opponent, the campaigning, overt or otherwise, will start in earnest.
