not-quite snowclone

[Victor Steinbok]

 From the lips of the spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial
Campaign Commission, Brad Dayspring:

> "Alison Lundergan Grimes seems incapable of articulating her own
> thoughts, and faced with questions, either directly parrots the
> talking points handed to her by [Sen.] Chuck Schumer or she babbles
> incoherently and stares blankly into the camera as though she’s a
> freshman in high school struggling to remember the CliffsNotes after
> forgetting to read her homework assignment."

In further comments to The Hill he then referred to Grimes as "an empty
dress".

As someone had remarked in the comments on TPM, "We have witnessed the
birth of a new cliche."

VS-)

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