HUNT: He is a man who meets all George W.’s weaknesses: lack of foreign policy experience, lack of gravitas. I think now when Gore is trying to make the case of lack of gravitas against George W. …
WILLIAMS: Now we look and we see the son, who is seeking some gravitas, to say to people that he is an intelligent man…
SHIPMAN: There is a lot talk they are looking at older candidates, candidates with gravitas.
ROBERTS: He’s had health problems, uh, he’s worked for a Big Oil company, but he has the gravitas. You can sum it up in one word: stature.
FAZIO: I really believe that George W. Bush needed that perhaps more than anyone in recent memory because, if there is a rap about him, it may go to the gravitas issue.
GREENFIELD: If the question about Governor Bush was one of the weight, or to use the favorite phrase of the moment, ‘gravitas’…
ALTER: What he gets here is grav-i-tas, a sense of weight, competence, and administrative ability.
KERREY: I’ve gotta strengthen it in some fashion. I’ve gotta bring gravitas to the ticket.
KERREY: He does not need anybody to give him gravitas!
CARLSON: It means that Bush, you know, Gore has experience and gravitas.
McCURRY: I think he also needs to demonstrate some gravitas, too.
DONALDSON: …that he was put on the ticket, but by former President Bush, to give gravitas to the ticket.
CLIFT: Well, Dick Cheney brings congeniality and he brings gravitas.
ISAACSON: He does seem to bring some vigor as well as gravitas and stature to the ticket.
HUNT: It’s called ‘gravitas.’
NOVAK: Right.
SHIELDS A little gravitas!
WOODRUFF: You certainly have gravitas tonight.
DONALDSON: Displayed tonight a certain gravitas.
RUSH: Now, I don’t care. I don’t care how it happens. I don’t care whether they all got together and decided, or one person used it and they all decided to mimic. They are who they are, and that montage is a good illustration.