Sunday, February 24, 2008

No More Mo

So, apparently, in 1980 after he won the Iowa caucus, George H.W. Bush crowed to the press that he had "Big Mo"--i.e., political momentum. Since then, it's been some kind of unwritten rule amongst pundits of a certain age that they must use this phrase at least once per article when referring to political momentum in general.

This has to stop. "Big Mo" is an awful way to denote "political momentum"--it sounds bad, it isn't witty, and its origin is totally obscure and non-witty.

Just saying.

2 comments:

Eric said...

I hope you realized that you just gave yourself a new nickname.

David Morris said...

That's what she said?