2016 Candidates Are Cursing More, and on Purpose
Such frequent, deliberate cursing by presidential candidates addressing campaign audiences in this election cycle seems to be without modern precedent. It is a striking departure for a party whose 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, let fly expressions like “H-E-double-hockey-sticks” when he wanted to be puckish.
.. “He does it because he needs attention and can’t control himself,” Stuart Stevens, who was Mr. Romney’s chief strategist, said of Mr. Trump. “Both are not qualities in demand in a president.”
.. Even the now-mellowed Mr. Carson has participated, gingerly.
“This is a bunch of crap,” he said at the debate in Boulder, Colo., last month, discussing government regulations.
.. The language has posed a complication, though, for news organizations. Generally, style guidelines dictate that obscenities should not be printed unless the precise words are newsworthy.