His actions speak louder that any of their campaign rhetoric.

But there has been a marked gap between the campaign rhetoric and the reality of his achievements.

It remains to be seen what he means, and how much of that talk was campaign rhetoric.

With all the Presidential campaign rhetoric about "family values," this may look to some people like a dangerous precedent.

They were finding it difficult to transform their campaign rhetoric into specific recommendations.

But it's more campaign rhetoric than a strategy for governing.

And my question is, aren't you - how do you square your campaign rhetoric with this record?

I guess they took the campaign rhetoric a little too seriously.

A factory should provide an ideal backdrop to that type of campaign rhetoric.

Anyone who takes these statements as anything more than campaign rhetoric is being terribly naive.