Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@dceiver I also find that I now USE capital LETTERS in some of the weirdest WAYS. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

On the medical advice of Dr. Trump, I have been taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc pills for the past three days. My health is the same, but I have declared bankruptcy four times. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@jeromearmstrong @saintdorian @DemFromCT That's why I wrote it the way I did, trying to phrase it carefully. And, for what it's worth, the affair started in 2006 even though it was not fully revealed until 2008. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JeffSmithMO Given Tiffany's distance from her father, I would describe it as a "prospective Pompeo upgrade." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SenatorZero It's all explained in this 1999 interview with Stockdale about his experience in running with Perot: https://t.co/Zi8etE412N — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero I use him in my Yale seminar as a model for the cruelty of presidential politics. He had only agreed to be Perot's 1992 VP as a stand-in with the promise that he would be replaced by a political figure. It never happened -- and Stockdale was sent into the VP debate unprepared. — PolitiTweet.org

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@saintdorian @DemFromCT That's why I carefully used the wording "scandal-waiting-to-happen." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@KevinDuffyNY @larryunderstood Read the chronology of Eagleton being removed from the 1972 ticket in "Boys on the Bus." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@jefftimmer The ghost of Spiro Agnew begs to differ. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@marylinbitner I'm not pumping for Abrams. But she spent a decade in the Georgia legislature, six years as a party leader. — PolitiTweet.org

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@larryunderstood I worded my tweet carefully out of compassion for Eagleton. I said that he was among the worst picks in "political terms." The scandal over the discovery that he had received electro-shock treatments doomed the McGovern campaign. Eagleton never had mentioned it in vetting. — PolitiTweet.org

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May I nominate over the last half-century, Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin. And, in political terms on the Democratic side, Tom Eagleton. And in scandal-waiting-to-happen terms: John Edwards. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CleverTitleTK I'm so indebted to you for finding this. It's wonderful. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Somehow I'm not remembering Kellyanne Fitzpatrick's bitter attack on the selection of Sarah Palin in 2008 as pandering to women. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ASlavitt Just want to add a thought -- Some of us vulnerable by age, who have been staying home, normally live vibrant working lives out in the world. It's not just people in assisted living and nursing homes who are being written off by the let-the-oldsters-die craziness. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: Insightful and wry (as usual) from @MrWalterShapiro: Trump is stuck in 2016, but older voters are panicked by the 2020 v… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ClydeHaberman Compromise: Because of the Hydrox cookies of his youth, Trump has found a way to pronounce the quack remedy that he is currently taking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Alternate theory: Trump the Boy was fed Hydrox cookies instead of Oreos. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mauryisl @jameshohmann I'm picturing Carson testifying before Congress at the annual appropriations hearing. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@daveweigel How about, "Barkeeper joins resistance." Or "Girl finds wizard." Or "Mobster's long backstory." Or "Southern wartime romances." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Yes, sure, the Deep State fakes medical research in the middle of a pandemic because Dr. Trump is promoting a drug. Does anyone really believe that nonsense? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I don't play poker. But I have read the galleys of "The Biggest Bluff" and it is a terrific quest story that goes far beyond the game itself. @mkonnikova is an amazing writer, thinker and, yes, poker player. — PolitiTweet.org

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I've been part of a Gallup online panel for a decade. Why? Because political reporters need to give back like investment bankers who adopt schools in Harlem. On business surveys, I've been asked many questions about which I don't give a damn so I would love a "don't know" option. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Ridderrick: From Shapiro’s piece: “Fears and dreams are what drive vote behavior,” explains Rick Ridder. “What we are seeing today is… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I can't wait until (under the Trump precedent) we establish a Cabinet Department of Household Servants. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Covering the 1984 campaign for Time, I remember her bond with Time photographer P.F. Bentley who also stuttered. Here's a wonderful David Schribman piece on Annie Glenn's 100th birthday: https://t.co/Yc0I37N3UI — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkLeibovich Somehow I thought that might be your reaction. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@laura_lrnzo Seriously, if Trump lost 5 percent of voters over 50 in 2020 (compared to 2016), it would probably be enough to guarantee a Biden victory. You don't have to win over Trump true believers who watch Fox 16 hours a day. — PolitiTweet.org

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My nominee for article of the day via @MarkLeibovich. He and most would-be VPs "would say how flattered and humbled they were to be mentioned before claiming that they were not really thinking about getting selected, not at all, not one bit." https://t.co/1O9Wg61jhl — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

What an admirable person. Today would be a wonderful day to read the appreciation of her that shimmers on every page about John Glenn in Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff." — PolitiTweet.org