Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Also, why pressure Biden to rush the decision? Beyond chemistry and fitness for the office (both extremely important), we don't know what Biden's political deficiencies will be in early August when the VP is chosen. This is a volatile time and impressions of Biden will change. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@rhcm123 And Jeanne Kirkpatrick had more or less left the Democratic Party when she was a featured speaker at the 1984 GOP Convention denouncing the "San Francisco Democrats." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@rhcm123 But isn't that the case with everyone who endorses a presidential candidate from the other party? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

There are more prominent GOP figures on this single pro-Biden Op-Ed than most Democratic nominees of the past have come up with during their entire campaigns. https://t.co/zvTCc3jwWM — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

So once again, we have a bizarre Trump pronouncement like quarantining New York that has no practical reality to it other than distracting the world from his incompetence in face of Covid-19. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@RachelBitecofer @StuPolitics It's also how roughly 90 percent of voters make their decisions. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Be sure to add to the mix that impeachment kept Warren , Sanders and Klobuchar off the campaign trail for two weeks before Iowa. That may have mattered almost as much as the bungled Iowa count. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Don't underestimate Trump. He has the God-given power to delay sunset if he hasn't yet aired all of his grievances. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DeanBaker13 I actually think it dates back to the 1950s. There is a quote in this piece on 1963 where GOP House leader Charles Halleck says "Democrat Party." https://t.co/CQAycB1ihZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Epic sign that true home-confinement boredom has set in -- I just checked on my LinkedIn network. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

But Captain Queeg loses the trial. It is only the final post-verdict rant by Jose Ferrer that vindicates Queeg. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Nothing reaffirms faith in democracy like seeing that voter suppression efforts are not only immoral but they are also ineffective. Republicans who go down this dangerous route must feel really proud of themselves when it all explodes on Election Night. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@billjamesonline But where is the covered wagon? And where was it headed in 1868? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

As a regular contributor in the 1990s, I just subscribed to support Slate. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This has broad implications beyond Wisconsin. It is a warning that heavy-handed efforts to rig elections and suppress the vote end up having unanticipated consequences. No one deserves more comeuppance than Wisconsin Republicans who refused to delay the election. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Kudos to @nielslesniewski for doing the prudent thing and helping normalize the use of masks in a pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I'm impressed. @CillizzaCNN wrote a "Democrats in Disarray" post on the day that Bernie endorsed Biden, using the Jill Stein wing of the Sanders campaign as his evidence. https://t.co/pxhpvwXi1U — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Fascinating @Bencjacobs piece on the White House press corps during a pandemic with an out-of-control president. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This is even a worse aspect of McConnell’s legacy than Merrick Garland. I hope that someday soon Paul Ryan, who did the right thing, will go public with his recollections. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@LucykmobileLucy @GazeOfTheAbyss @kausmickey Damn! I don't know. But I do wonder if it is still possible to enroll myself for Summer 2021. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Now that we have a Council to Reopen America, I wonder when they will start sending the FBI door-to-door to arrest people for staying home. I can see myself in federal custody. The offense: Following house arrest. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Please, can we now postpone all "Democrats in Disarray" pieces until mid-May? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@NickRiccardi @HotlineJosh @SeanTrende Don’t get me started on national polling and it’s lack of predictive ability in a ptesidential primary race. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Actually, there were two lanes — the Bernie lane and the non-Bernie lane. Telling that Sanders did not automatically inherit Warren’s supporters. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DKarol Last point — Democrats in 2020 were always aware of how Reince Priebus pulled the plug in 2016 on last-ditch opposition to the Trump takeover. Trump is the great case against a party rushing to nominate someone without a delegate majority. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SteveKornacki That was a great late February analysis of pros and cons for Bernie. My skepticism about Bernie was always rooted in the belief that non-left-wingers would always go with their gut and not the polls on Bernie’s electability. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol I had a completely open mind on almost any scenario but a Democratic Party desperate to beat Trump nominating Bernie. There would have even been a real effort to give super-delegates back their first ballot votes at the convention. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@amyewalter Totally agree at 45%. But I never saw the road for Bernie to get there without strong black support, especially in the South. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DKarol But why would the non-Bernie candidates persist if they weren’t getting delegates because they lacked 15% percent support? And if Bloomberg stayed in by hitting 15%, none of his delegates ever would have switched to Bernie at the convention. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@HotlineJosh @byelin @SeanTrende Thanks. Nevada was the only evidence ever that Bernie could expand his constituency beyond almost entirely white support. — PolitiTweet.org