Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

My new song: “Don’t Talk about Wordle.” — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @LarrySabato: The #ProfilesinCourageAward is an honor of great significance. Nominate someone in politics who has shown true courage. Pe… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: I have completely come around to the long held view of my friend ⁦@MrWalterShapiro⁩, that #COVID19 is the most importan… — PolitiTweet.org

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@SteveKettmann To end this streak, you not only have to run but also win. Think of the presidential campaigns of John Lindsay, Rudy and Mike Bloomberg. Plus Ed Koch's ill-fated effort to be governor. — PolitiTweet.org

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Keeping intact the wonderful record that no former mayor of New York City since the 19th century has ever been elected to another public office. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This may be the greatest attack ad since the little girl with the daisies and the nuclear countdown in 1964: https://t.co/ZjEf2h7MTA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZacMcCrary: I always read @MrWalterShapiro and read him twice when he quotes me. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @OpinionToday: It’s Foolish to Predict the Midterms Until We Know Covid’s Future: Biden’s approval rating on the virus is bleak, but Dem… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MisterLoyalEsq @newrepublic For the third time, even without crediting Biden, the national mood will lighten, which traditionally has the effect of helping the party in power. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MisterLoyalEsq @newrepublic From my article: "Given the missteps of the last few months, Biden may personally never receive full credit if the pandemic recedes into the background. But the Democrats’ fortunes may rebound as the national mood lightens." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Jon_Gluck: I wrote an Op-Ed piece about an issue that’s personally important to me. I’d be grateful if you’d read and share it. https:… — PolitiTweet.org

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Me in @newrepublic: "In contrast to everyone else doom scrolling about the pandemic, political handicappers seem determined to treat 2022 as an ordinary election year. But that’s like ignoring the Depression in making political predictions about 1932." https://t.co/PYcXdAMM8i — PolitiTweet.org

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Awful downside of not traveling and staying in hotels during the pandemic — I am out of soap. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@MaryBuggieHunt My point in the article is that we don’t know. And election handicappers are treating things like the pandemic will go on like this through 2022 and beyond. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

My latest piece stressing that unless you know what the mood about COVID will be in October 2022 then it is folly to make election forecasts. It is like ignoring the Depression in handicapping 1932. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbview @BrendanNyhan I agree that a lot depends on the state of the pandemic in October. But I disagree that Biden isn’t getting the blame. Think of the civil rights group that boycotted his speech in Georgia. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianros1 And I would have gleefully taken what they might have gotten. Instead, they shot for the moon (even though they didn't have the fuel) and landed in the Atlantic Ocean instead. (I can't decide about the merits of my moon-shot imagery). — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbview @BrendanNyhan Think there is a big downside in falling short, as Biden apparently has done. The level of disillusionment in the Democratic base is currently much much greater than if the Biden White House had never talked, for example, about $3.5 trillion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianros1 Alternative they had was to recognize from the outset that $1.5 trillion was about the most they might get under reconciliation. And to strip everything that didn't affect 2022 directly out of the voting bill. We don't need for Election Day to be a national holiday, for example. — PolitiTweet.org

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@moorehn It would take a walk of maybe 15 feet for Manchin to caucus with the Republicans who would preserve or enhance all his committee assignments. That's the problem with armchair experts who are advocating threats -- Manchin alone could make McConnell the majority leader. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrendanNyhan I think a large portion of the problem was that Democratic activists refused to be realistic about what a 50-50 Senate meant. And Biden and Company, petrified of losing the Democratic base, played along with their ludicrous delusions. The result: Terrible disillusionment. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bluestein Is that a Georgia or a Southern expression? Living in NY and earlier DC, going to school in Michigan and growing up in Connecticut, I have never encountered the "Devil's Dandruff" before. This omission may reflect my cloistered life. — PolitiTweet.org

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I love this line from Christine Rosen: "If the New Yorker’s annual cover model, the monocle-bearing dandy Eustace Tilley, is supposedly its personification, the Atlantic’s should be Munch’s Scream." — PolitiTweet.org

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@TonyDinSalemIL I see your point, I think. But I also recoil at, say, the CDC not mentioning testing in trimming quarantine to five days because of their fears of a shortage of tests. The same with high-quality masks. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is so important from my favorite Covid commentator: The CDC seems "to be speculating as social scientists, except getting it wrong." So many misguided CDC recommendations are based on their views of social engineering -- and not science. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TCurry_Himself Relatively young by the political standards of the 1970s. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

What did they talk about for an hour? Arguing over the filibuster gets boring pretty quickly. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I am devastated by the sudden death of WSJ drama critic @TerryTeachout. I didn't know him, except on Twitter. But he was my guiding star to theater -- and I will so miss his reviews and his commentary. https://t.co/DfmXxFgdjm — PolitiTweet.org

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From Richard Nixon's 1969 "Silent Majority" speech justifying continuing the war in Vietnam: "I have chosen this second course. It is not the easy way. It is the right way." If only Nixon had taken "the easy way." https://t.co/qV2elhIfCN — PolitiTweet.org

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@vicharmonnyc Wordle is actually quite delightful. I was just trying to mock Wordle braggadocio. — PolitiTweet.org