How fortunate that he changed his mind, for no standard English can capture the characters' earthiness, folksiness or conviction.
Four years ago, Mr Bush lost narrowly to Lawton Chiles, who smothered the clever think-tank stuff with maddening folksiness ("The old he-coon walks just before the light of day," Mr Chiles once said, in a mystifying but oddly captivating way).
Forget the cowboy boots Dream ticket ReprintsAmong Texan artists the big change, in Mr Auping's view, is that they have dropped the wildcatter mentality of a generation ago and abandoned any last trace of regional folksiness.
His carefully scripted appearances, along with occasional leaked tapes, revealed soft-spoken folksiness, heartfelt patriotism and a pious bent, but little else.
Mr Schweikert surrounds himself with state Republicans, and gives out his home phone number to voters.Putting folksiness to one side, Mr Schweikert casts the Arizona primary as a proxy for a wider battle between "the establishment and the reformers".
All that is aggravated in some quarters by Mr Bush's stumbling syntax and Texan folksiness, which arouse a snobbish hostility among some articulate, metropolitan Britons.Yet their views seem in a minority.
The combination of folksiness and scriptural references typifies, for example, some of Itsik Manger's best verse.
It is not by coincidence that the Indianan's nickname, Hoosier, remains a symbol in the country's lore for a kind of homespun wisdom, wit, and folksiness that harks back to what is popularly regarded as a less-hurried and less-complicated period of history.
When it takes the form of political propaganda, management-speak, or P.R., it is riddled with euphemism, cliché, fake folksiness, and high-sounding abstractions.
But there is also something a bit strange about Lynch's niceness — a heightened, golly-gee, stuck-in-the-fifties folksiness that some people think must be a put-on.
Today, Jonah Goldberg of National Review declared that Perry was all hat and no cattle, arguing that Perry's "folksiness isn't a substitute for seriousness".
