Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JohnAnzo @KevinMaddenDC @JoeBiden Coldest moment of my life -- covering at 5:00 am Gary Hart doing a plant gate in Davenport in 1984 as the wind whistled across the Mississippi. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MrWalterShapiro: I think the most effective remedy is to couple the first reference to Trump in any story or TV report with the words “… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I think the most effective remedy is to couple the first reference to Trump in any story or TV report with the words “the former president who wants to terminate the Constitution” — PolitiTweet.org

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The gift that keeps on giving. Or is it “the grift that keeps on taking?” — PolitiTweet.org

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Wait until Trump decides to move to the right. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Let's terminate the Constitution for just a bit to eliminate the Second Amendment. Before the right-wing goes crazy with "that's worse than Trump," let me add that I am, of course, not serious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lisap1999 @newrepublic Iowa was doomed because it can't count votes and has turned very Republican. Bernie carried both NH and Nevada in 2016 and 2020, which is why NH is downgraded and Nevada is held the same day to lessen the impact of an upset in one of those primaries. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LATSeema @mstanik0 @markzbarabak @AbcarianLAT @melmason @RaineyTime @MaeveReston @cathleendecker @ktumulty @JhessburgJean @ronmparker29 I bought my snow boots in Mason City in December 2019 when I realized I had misjudged the weather. I will also miss the Meredith Wilson Museum and Music Man Square. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MaeveReston @LATSeema @AbcarianLAT @markzbarabak @melmason @RaineyTime @cathleendecker @ktumulty One more Iowa memory: A desperate organizer for Hillary standing on a table on caucus night in 2008 as Des Moines Democrats regrouped for a second time shouting, "Electing the first woman president would history, too." Obama carried the precinct overwhelmingly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LATSeema @MaeveReston @AbcarianLAT @markzbarabak @melmason @RaineyTime @cathleendecker @ktumulty John Kerry in the lobby of the Hotel Fort Des Moines on the night he won the 2004 caucuses. Many dinners at 801 Grand. Watching George Bush do push-ups at the YMCA to show that he was “Up for the Eighties” and Ronald Reagan wasn’t. The bar scene at the Fort Des Moines circa 2008. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BeschlossDC For all his many reservations about Stevenson, Truman did campaign for the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket in 1956. https://t.co/1lhQr6WFfM — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

When we junk the Constitution to restore Trump as president, could we also please jettison the Second Amendment in the process. — PolitiTweet.org

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Political Stupidity Award via today's NY Post: "[Meagan] Markle reportedly is networking with Democrats to further her goal of running for president as early as 2024. Biden says he intends to seek re-election—setting up a potential matchup with the Duchess of Sussex." Yeah, sure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NormOrnstein The food is SC is great. Charleston sure as hell beats Des Moines. But it is entirely aspirational on the part of the Democrats that SC is competitive. See Harrison, Jaime in 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden's plan to revamp the Democratic primary schedule isn't just grist for political junkies. It is a clever and unappreciated ploy to prevent the Democratic Party in the future from going too far to the left. My piece in the New Republic: https://t.co/bRJH7OGDAv — PolitiTweet.org

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From my @newrepublic piece: "The Biden calendar comes with two insurance policies: thwarting an insurgent candidate in the first primary in South Carolina and then, if that candidate still gets liftoff, bringing them back down to earth in Georgia, two weeks later. " — PolitiTweet.org

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@DickPolman1 Bob Graham. — PolitiTweet.org

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Four of the first five states would be in the Eastern time zone. Nevada is also a big loser along with NH. It doesn’t even get a week to itself. — PolitiTweet.org

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SC would have more influence if it were 3rd and the field was already somewhat winnowed. NH should passed a law to prevent Biden from finishing fifth in 2020. The decision is bomb-throwing with no real rationale. But the committee is stacked so it is mostly a done deal. Alas. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 @GenCounselWolf "Quite Passion" understated how quiet Bob Graham's passions were. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexheard Nothing seems to work. I've given them exclusives. I have gone out in disguise. I've tried to cut deals with individual photographers. Damn. It's making me a recluse. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would have gone to tonight's State Dinner if it wasn't for my crippling fear of the paparazzi. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@benjamin_oc You win that round. — PolitiTweet.org

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Answer to my little quiz question. “Quiet Passion” was a 2004 biography of the soft-spoken Bob Graham. — PolitiTweet.org

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@eaglescouch About as much success as a candidate as Scott Walker in 2015, but no. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AbPow Nothing quiet about Connally ever. I can hear him bellowing threats to the Japanese in 1980 that unless they drop their tariffs President Connally would let their cars rot on the docks of Yokohama. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GenCounselWolf Nope. Lugar was noisy in comparison. — PolitiTweet.org

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Without Googling, do you know what would-be president (he never made it to the Iowa caucuses) was the subject of a biography actually called, “Quiet Passion”? I just passed the book on my bookcase and giggled at the title. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ed_kilgore Coldest moment of my life — watching Gary Hart shake hands at 5:00 am at a factory gate in Davenport with the wind whistling off the Mississippi. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Don’t think any of us in the news business should ridicule somebody for talking on the record. — PolitiTweet.org