1.   By doing so he echoed a theme Gore long ago incorporated in his own basic stump speech.

2.   He relies on a basic stump speech that is heavy on identifying problems but short on specific solutions.

3.   He said he had no plans to change significantly his basic stump speech in the coming weeks.

4.   In his brief address Sunday night, Bush stuck mostly to his basic stump speech about cutting taxes, improving education and restoring dignity to the White House.

5.   What is particularly surprising about Forbes is how little his basic stump speech has changed in months of campaigning, and how highly programmed his presentations are.

6.   That meant little ad libbing, repetition of the basic well-practiced stump speech, and lots of balloons, pompoms, confetti, screaming fans and pyrotechnics.