Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I know enough about Judaism to know that a Max Mara bag is not the traditional carrying method for the Torah and similar texts. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a classic evasion that may be worthy of Bartlett's. Also, back in 2016, McConnell was enough into giving performance critiques to call Trump's own performance on the "Access Hollywood" tape "repugnant." — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a wonderful thread. And it contains important lessons for everyone tempted to cite a quote that they found on the Internet or in a vague newspaper clip. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wonder how many contributions to Steve Bullock's Senate campaign will be sparked by Daines saying, "I was grateful for the president's leadership." — PolitiTweet.org

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@barbaraslavin1 At Time magazine in the late 1980s, I shocked a buttoned-down colleague in the midst of day-long meetings by saying, "I haven't gone to this many meetings since SDS." For the record, I was a fellow traveller rather a member at SDS at Michigan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@barbaraslavin1 So was I. Up against what was then the Riggs Bank Building. — PolitiTweet.org

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And while nothing came of Nixon's pre-dawn visit to the Lincoln Memorial, you have to respect his attempt to understand. — PolitiTweet.org

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From my @rollcall column: "Trump is the product of a television culture that feeds on conflict — the more vicious and personal, the better. But the inadvertent result of 'if it bleeds, it leads' coverage has been to downplay the peaceful protests." https://t.co/eT47E2CxrH — PolitiTweet.org

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I remember the Nebraska senator who used to write tweets like this. He disappeared sometime in 2018 and I always wondered what became of him. — PolitiTweet.org

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I have my differences with this @JillDLawrence column on Biden and his would-be VP, but as always Jill makes a strong and passionate case and I urge you to read it: https://t.co/2tJrl9VDuI — PolitiTweet.org

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My @rollcall column: "I still cling to the hope that we will muddle through. After four decades writing on politic… https://t.co/KIMh4PLIER — PolitiTweet.org

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@reedgalen The great American battles — Gettysburg, Normandy and K Street. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop The Nixon White House in 1974 was saintly compared to these people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Do they really believe that their fealty to Trump will burnish their resume? That 10 or 15 years from now, the world will welcome them because of their impressive Trump connections? The ship is sinking and they're too obtuse and morally compromised to jump. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlecMacGillis @justingeorge An uplifting story on a horrible night. — PolitiTweet.org

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What a brave (ha!) statement by Sen. John Cornyn: “Some people love the president, some people don't. And I don't think we're ever going to resolve that. It would be good for him to address the nation.” https://t.co/hH5kgOEan8 — PolitiTweet.org

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I spend my days and nights waiting so eagerly for the courageous John Bolton book. (Please world: Don’t be so literal that you believe I am serious). — PolitiTweet.org

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@HickmanPolls @StuPolitics Doesn't raising a Bible like that keep vampires away? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @geneweingarten: Look past the sesquipedalian word usage. This is one hell of a tough and righteous column by George Will. https://t.co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattGlassman312 @abarber1 I've never been able to confirm this. But I recall, a 1974 California Field Poll on the upcoming elections asked voters who they backed in 1972 for president. This was just a Party ID question. But the results came back that McGovern had carried the state, which he lost 55-41%. — PolitiTweet.org

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Let me also stress that the comparison with Carter in 1979 is grotesquely unfair. — PolitiTweet.org

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Personally, I'm tired of all the winning. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course, with 25 Democratic Senate seats on the ballot in 1970, the Republicans picked up just two. The strategy didn't work: https://t.co/Vh080fXENb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newrepublic: Amid this week’s anguish and chaos, the parallel on everyone’s lips is 1968, and the uprisings that paved the way for Nixo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BobShrum: Important piece as Trump tries to play the “Law and Order” card after sowing waves of disorder. https://t.co/VcYYov8cow — PolitiTweet.org

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I wrote a similar piece for @newrepublic. And I used @rickperlstein's fascinating book "Nixonland" for some of my research. I came to a similar conclusion: Heavy-handed right-wing appeals to "law and order" seldom work at the ballot box. — PolitiTweet.org

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@philgunson That's precisely why I wrote it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@k8croy I had a paragraph about that in my draft, but my editor thought it slowed things down. I should have insisted. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JLasaine Didn't have the room to get into it, but Humphrey would have won by states, I believe. At least, every clip I read assumed that he would. The Democrats had a hefty House margin 243-192 margin after the 1968 elections. — PolitiTweet.org

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@thedrewreed @newrepublic I'm just trying to deal with all the glib invocations of Nixon to suggest that Biden is in deep trouble. — PolitiTweet.org