Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

New Year’s Resolution: Enough of what Satchel Paige called “the social ramble.” In 2021, I am going to spend more time at home. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ClydeHaberman God knows, I agree. Looking back, though, I really think the failure to stop Trump in the 2016 primaries made everything possible. Once someone is the nominee, it's almost too late. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Partisanship is so intense in the US that it's hard for any nominee to fall under 40%. That's about 64 million votes. The real question is why did Trump pick up that additional 10 million? — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine if FDR constantly said after Pearl Harbor: "Why did the Japanese do this to me? I was on a roll. Why do I have to suffer?" Then see Trump do just that: https://t.co/vxEsREbBla — PolitiTweet.org

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@nachofiesta Since I don't know your real name, I don't know if I ever read your article. And I never endorsed Klobuchar though I did feel warmly towards her candidacy. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

As a political reporter, I love yard signs. And most of the anti-sign analyses failed to factor in the rage of many true believers over the last decade when they discovered they couldn't get yard signs or that they had to pay through the nose for them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomdiemer Thanks for this. It's lovely. And Happy New Year. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@laura_lrnzo That one made me smile. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Sulliview @MonicaHesse Thank you for pointing me to it. It is the most moving article I have read in the last week. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Epstein is indeed alive, then maybe Lin Wood can plead his case in front of Judge Crater, the NY jurist who has been missing since 1930. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is a tradition in public health to slightly shade the truth based on what experts think the public can handle. Major example: The anti-mask guidelines in March. This has to be avoided by Biden as I write in @newrepublic: https://t.co/ygbSOF22F0 — PolitiTweet.org

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A GOP Commerce secretary would be a pretty weak symbol of bipartisanship for Biden. Certainly, Ray LaHood didn't make a difference at Transportation for Obama. That's the argument in a @JillDLawrence column -- and I strongly agree. https://t.co/bEoPF6NhGb — PolitiTweet.org

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From my piece: "There should be a general acknowledgement that there were moments when esteemed public health voices (and not just Trump and Vice President Mike Pence) offered wrongheaded recommendations during the pandemic." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Because it has eight cases. Yes, eight. Victoria (Melbourne) will close its border with New South Wales (Sydney). This is what happens during a pandemic with a competent government and widespread compliance. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Bencjacobs @Yair_Rosenberg @benyt "I live in Boro Park and I have a question for Andrew Yang. Are the Palenstinians part of your guaranteed income plan? And do you intend to double the $1,000 for the brave settlers on the West Bank?" — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs @Yair_Rosenberg @benyt Middle East policy, for some odd reason, was not a major theme in the Iowa caucuses. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ABCLiz In addition to the beauty of the starlings in synchronized flight, murmation is a wonderful word. — PolitiTweet.org

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@1PatriciaMurphy @ossoff @KLoeffler Puzzled how much money he expects to raise from Fox News viewers. But the attack on Loeffler was doing something for the team after Ossoff was asked to comment on rightwing attacks on Warnock. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Some true believers—at least those who have not spent the last four years spewing racism and hatred—deserve pity because they were victims of a con man. They are the gullible who, in a different context, might have sent their banking information to a Nigerian email address." — PolitiTweet.org

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@NormOrnstein He's Iago without the talent. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @murphymike: This is so grim. Hawley is not a fool. He’s smart. He knows it’s all a lie. But he is so ambitious and deeply cynical it r… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Why do I suspect that Mich McConnell will not signing onto the Hawley for President bandwagon? The GOP senators up in 2022 will love having to cast votes on this crazed challenge to a legitimate election. — PolitiTweet.org

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Having just finished the 31,000 words, I wish the New Yorker had run more. Seriously. It's that good. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Maybe it's just me. But I read this fast and I thought it said that she was on her "Senate Farewell Tour." All it takes is changing one vowel. — PolitiTweet.org

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The world craves an official count of how many times Loeffler says, “Radical Liberal Raphael Watnock.” — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@markbern2 @daveweigel Maybe why I am in no rush to read the second volume. — PolitiTweet.org

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@daveweigel The first volume of Sylvia Jukes Morris’ bio of Clare Booths Luce drips venom from every page. I haven’t yet read the second volume. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

It is hard, I know, to give cowardly Republicans who served as Trump's enablers, a semi-free pass. But a wave of vengeance may be emotionally satisfying, but it will not repair the rifts in our national fabric. I urge people to read my piece -- and not just react to this tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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@steveniweiss @jackshafer @TimothyNoah1 Don't need Nexis. This is all from a much cheaper data base: https://t.co/cDwXMHeSu0. Actually, all you had to do was search the free Library of Congress newspaper data base called "Chronicling America." It has the 1920 Philadelphia Public Ledger clip. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer @TimothyNoah1 I consider following @TimothyNoah1 to be a "charity follow." — PolitiTweet.org