"Gravitas"?

[drisley]

What the hell is this word "gravitas" that I keep hearing in the news? It is used by every Liberal to somehow say something about Cheney.

I swear the liberals are going by a script. They all say the same thing, using almost the exact same wording. One of them is this damn word, which I don't know and probably am not spelling right.

[Moriba]

(Oh goody, a new political buzz word!)

Gravitas = high seriousness, as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) By RON FOURNIER
Associated Press
07/25/00
--'Bush has faced questions about whether he is ready to be president, and advisers believe a running mate who knows his way around the White House — and around the world — would fill in the so-called gravitas gap....Cheney, 59, brings the ticket a wealth of foreign policy experience and political stature — traits that Bush, a two-term Texas governor, lacks himself.'--
So I suppose some would think that Bush needs Cheney to add some 'seriousness by association' to his campaign.

[SARGE]

Yeah, a script is always followed by those kooks. Rush pointed out the word "gravitas" the other day, and played tapes of one liberal after another using the word.