prebuttal

We are now in the political era of the prebuttal.

Perhaps the better word for it is "prebuttal," a word political operatives sometimes use.

The prebuttal has already begun, lest Washington consider going the route of the British government.

Romney himself ticked off accomplishments during his four years as governor of Massachusetts, right across the border, and added a prebuttal to any coming attacks.

The tactic is called a preemptive rebuttal, or prebuttal, usually delivered in a speech by a member of the opposing party.

In an unusual prebuttal, a group of Palin associates launched a sharp counterattack this week, holding a 50-minute conference call with reporters.

The Romney campaign put out a prebuttal in advance of the president's speech, which was titled "Moving America Forward."

So there's rebuttal, there's prebuttal and then afterward there's spin."

Imagine if the Obama campaign had been able to pre-position a Hilary Rosen prebuttal ahead of her comments.

Romney has accused Obama of overseeing three years of "debt and decline" in his "prebuttal" to the president's state of the nation address tonight.

It's a stark contrast with pitiful crowd of a few score at Romney "prebuttal" to Obama's state of the union address earlier.

The presumed Republican nominee scheduled his remarks at a Cincinnati factory so that they would come shortly before Obama’s, to serve as a prebuttal.

Romney's speech was billed as a "prebuttal" to tonight's State of the Union speech by President Obama.

Vice President Gore calls it 'prebuttal."'

Procatalepsis, also called prolepsis or prebuttal, is a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to his own argument and then immediately answers it.

It was not an elegant process, which was in part a tribute to the "prebuttal" operation run by Hammond's opposite number, Liam Byrne.

In a prebuttal to Romney’s speech, Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said the former governor “fails the commander-in-chief test” on “every measure.”

The prebuttal is neither a new rhetorical tactic — one can imagine Cicero prebutting in the Roman Senate — nor a new word.

Mr. Romney spoke the day before, delivering what is now called “a prebuttal,” which is sort of like a Star Wars prequel, but just not as interesting or well-acted.

It held a "prebuttal" of the conference and argued that climate science does not justify papal recognition of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

As word spread about a potentially acrimonious interview with Marianne Gingrich, the ex-wife of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, the campaign responded with something of a prebuttal.

Later Wednesday, Romney will give a "prebuttal" speech in Charlotte to Obama's planned address in the city in September at the Democratic convention, the Romney campaign said.

Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney delivers what he called a "prebuttal to President Obama's convention speech" as he speaks at a campaign stop in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday.

The effort is part of a "bracketing" strategy, in which Romney is to stage "prebuttal" and "rebuttal" speeches to Obama designed to try to force the president on the defensive, the Post said.

On Wednesday, the likely GOP nominee was delivering a "prebuttal" in Charlotte, N.C., to the president's speech to the Democratic National Convention in that town come September.