Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@NewYorker @KathaPollitt Your haunting poem arrived in my life just as my wife and I were looking at fabric samples to reinvigorate an old sofa. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs Asking Cruz whether there was anything that the Trumpists attacking the Capitol and senators could have done that wasn’t worthy of a pardon might be interesting. — PolitiTweet.org

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Every other Republican thinking about 2024 like De Santis and Cruz should be asked whether they are in favor of blanket pardons. — PolitiTweet.org

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Democratic conventions until 1936 required a two-thirds majority to nominate a president. It was a way to give the South a veto power over the nominee. It was also a reason why it took the Democrats 103 ballots to pick John Davis in 1924. https://t.co/ZKRggpMVe8 — PolitiTweet.org

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I stopped reading by the third word in your tweet. But that won't stop me from writing a 67-tweet thread about what is wrong with people like you (and other journalists like that Shapiro guy) on Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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"We don’t worry enough about nuclear weapons. We have lost our preoccupation with them. For leaders who remembered World War II, it was always front of mind. Now, less so." From a great @Peggynoonannyc column that I agree with 100 percent: https://t.co/ItDun97tkl — PolitiTweet.org

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@JournalYear @brianros1 The point is the courts, but not what Sinema courts. It is that it is a bloody waste of time and energy to focus on a primary in Arizona that is more than two years off. Especially when the Democrats need Sinema to continue to support 100 percent of Biden's court appointments. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlecMacGillis @juliaioffe @RadioFreeTom @mehdirhasan You mean the 7:00 am breakfast to prepare for the 8:00 am breakfast? — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianros1 Nothing like antagonizing a senator you desperately need in 2022 over a 2024 primary. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FLynch2020 I'm not trying to exaggerate. My point is that so much of the Biden decline is Covid-related. And I'm wondering if good economic news will break through if Covid fades into the background. — PolitiTweet.org

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Worth recalling that Reagan carried 49 states with “Morning in America” during the last big jump in the GDP. Would love to see Biden’s numbers if Omicron continues its sharp plunge. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vicharmonnyc I will go with always this stupid for $500. — PolitiTweet.org

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If only "Maus" gave both sides of the Holocaust. Or only included happy scenes from the concentration camps. — PolitiTweet.org

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If it were a real emergency it would be "50x-impact" for a donation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Ed_Realist Agree with you on (d). I don't think (e) will be a factor since even Nelson Rockefeller (with the most expansive financial disclosure in history) was approved by a Democratic Congress within four months of being nominated in 1974. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @froomkin: A hero turns 100 https://t.co/TVolzIkYAv — PolitiTweet.org

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It would a). Make her the first VP to resign since Agnew: b). Trade one frustrating job (VP) for another one (liberal justice on a conservative court); c). Divide the Democrats over a new VP pick, though my money would be on Klobuchar. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NathanWurtzel Totally agree. Here's an article on the Frisch Five: https://t.co/fWuXqnqs4x — PolitiTweet.org

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Terrific piece. As for High Pockets Kelly, he was one of three infielders from the 1921 Giants in the Hall of Fame. And the only one who deserves it was Frankie Frisch. By the way, Frisch orchestrated the dubious admission of three teammates from 1921 into the Hall of Fame. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs @NotMrTibbs @Olivianuzzi That remark won the afternoon. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the 3rd Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, JFK was asked (seriously) about "former President Harry Truman, who bluntly suggested where the Vice President and the Republican party could go." JFK doubted that there was anything he could say to change Truman. https://t.co/PB9t3BsFKA — PolitiTweet.org

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@Tulletilsynet @benjamin_oc @levistahl Agree, sort of. But going too far in the other direction is dangerous. — PolitiTweet.org

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@benjamin_oc @levistahl Fascinating detail, which I am doing from memory, but I am pretty sure that I recall correctly. Wills never taped or took notes during his campaign interviews with Nixon. Instead, he focused intently and then wrote everything up when he got to his hotel room. Don't recommend it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SeanTrende I was on that Clinton trip and recall a near midnight dinner in what was then called Kiev at the freezing airport. Ukraine only agreed to give up its nukes at the very last minute hence the rushed dinner with Clinton. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkLeibovich @jmpalmieri @ktumulty It reminds me of the day in 1996 when Bob Dole was doing an event before the Iowa caucuses and he pulled into a community theater for a speech. The marquee was advertising their current show: "The Cemetery Club." — PolitiTweet.org

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@harrysiegel @greenfield64 @faqnyc I might even work in a William Fitts Ryan reference. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 I would ruin the podcast drama by always turning things back to Paul Screvane's campaign for city council president that year. And also how the GOP's Lefkovitz-Fino-and-Gilhooley may have been the greatest-sounding balanced ticket of the 20th century. https://t.co/TC8TEjWLCE — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty @MarkLeibovich @jmpalmieri I think we dropped off the Kerry plane in Dayton and were stuck overnight waiting for morning planes. The key insight was that the Edwards children -- who had been very cute in the VP rollout -- were actually trained adult actors. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KevinMaddenDC I'm very much available as soon as my rock group finishes our long-awaited tour of Antarctica. Seriously, I will do cameos on other people's podcasts. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ktumulty @MarkLeibovich I have said this before, but the funniest dinner I have ever had on the campaign trail was in 2004 with you and @markleibovich, that guy who keeps changing jobs — PolitiTweet.org