bluster, saber rattling, politicking, rhetoric, gamesmanship, sloganeering, pandering, demagoguery, brinkmanship, histrionics, theatrics, hyperbole, bombast, bravado, bickering, blather, doublespeak, preening, mudslinging, speechifying, platitudes, silliness, carping, maneuvering, wishful thinking, obstructionism, showboating, whining, sniping, upmanship, jingoism, cavilling, sophistry, ploy, oneupmanship, nonsense, gimmickry, buffoonery, intransigence, machinations, hectoring, charade, grandiloquence, insincerity, popularism, claptrap, dissembling, pompousness, braggadocio, puffery, jawboning, belligerence, prevarication, foolishness, window dressing, opportunism, bafflegab, pussyfooting, gambit, triumphalism, vacillation, cravenness, temporizing, nastiness, spinelessness, prattle, bellyaching, pusillanimity, polemics, bitching, cynicism, knee jerk, quibbling, snippiness, expedience, idiocy, squabbling, disingenuousness, obstreperousness, reactionism, jockeying, sideshow, hypocrisy, balderdash, punditry, shenanigans, pontificating, obfuscation, tokenism, sturm und drang, tommyrot, realpolitik, scapegoating, drivel, playacting, bloviation, tomfoolery, churlishness, twaddle, smokescreen, standoffishness, posturings, postures, bragging, affectation, boasting, bravura, pomposity, posing, fervor, machismo, ostentation

conceit, vanity