She tends to share fairly dense ideas, spontaneously spun out in punchy lines liberally interspersed with curse words.
Since the start of the conference, Cameron has been on unusually fiery form, promising to take on Miliband and testing out punchy lines on grassroots audiences.
After his primary wins on Tuesday, Mitt Romney delivered a nice speech with some punchy lines, and the pundits jumped and flipped like a troupe from Cirque du Soleil.
Peopling his poems with "nurses and prostitutes, policemen and religious fanatics, farmers and fish peddlers, drunkards…blues singers and barbers", Williams wanted to pin down the whole messy country with his short, punchy lines of poetry.
Unlike Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, whose experience on the hustings of British politics lend him an ability to think on his feet and deliver punchy lines, Mr. Medvedev barely opened up to questioning from an audience that was about half the size of the one that packed the hall to hear Mr. Cameron on Thursday, a day after his gamble on European Union membership.
Punchy lines Bacon, recently in the news after an altercation with Sky TV sports presenter Andy Burton, made light of the incident during a particularly controversial answer about who is the odd one out between Amy Winehouse, Caprice and Elle Macpherson (answer: Elle Macpherson - she's the only one of the trio who has been in rehab).
"Talk about being for it before you're against it," he joked, playing on the line that killed his own presidential campaign.Dennis Kucinich, a short congressman from Ohio and sometime presidential candidate who claims to have seen a UFO, added a touch of levity by jumping manically up and down at the podium, but Mr Obama's team reportedly censored his punchiest line.
4.48pm: Of all the candidates, Bercow is coming out with punchiest lines today.
With these three candidates vying for the middle ground with vanilla statements, the four fringe candidates stole the show with punchier lines and more radical viewpoints.
Then again, regardless of how many eyes roll in the traveling press corps, nobody in the Kerry campaign, not least its speechwriters, is complaining if his punchier lines are turning into slogans or chants.
