Spontaneity takes practice, and a candidate has to work at looking sincere in good visuals. Ed Muskie was bounced out of the presidential race in 1972 when the television cameras caught a tear on his cheek as he denounced an attack on his wife. He tried to say it was a snowflake, but we knew better. He was a man ahead of his times. Nevertheless, and like it or not, it is the intellectual and emotional illusion that our culture has become.
Nobody can kiss that away.