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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 26

    emptywheel Retweeted The Hill

    Remind me: I'm not just dreaming that John McCain named Sarah Palin his VP running-mate?https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1033812593650098182 …

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    The HillVerified account @thehill
    Tapper: There is so much "reverence" for McCain because of "who's in the White House" http://hill.cm/O3rbx9z  pic.twitter.com/LiY408Dw4m
    2:42 PM - 26 Aug 2018
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    68 replies 78 retweets 679 likes
      1. New conversation
      2. #etiolatedvisage‏ @etiolatedvisage Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        By choosing Palin as VP McCain helped facilitate the constitutional crisis we are in now. Responsible journalists will not gloss over this. @jaketapper

        1 reply 5 retweets 17 likes
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      2. sasso(used to be ron)‏ @ThewrongR Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Been saying it all day. Death illuminates the positive, hides the negative.

        2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. MsGulch2‏ @MsGulch2 Aug 26
        Replying to @ThewrongR @emptywheel

        Exactly! He was willing to do anything to win the presidency including putting a moron a heartbeat away from it. I will never be able to give him a pass for that. It was probably a step that lead us to Trump too.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. sasso(used to be ron)‏ @ThewrongR Aug 26
        Replying to @MsGulch2 @emptywheel

        Probably my butt. It def helped give us Donald

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Jeffrey Greer‏ @BaculumKing Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        That single act will be noted by historians as the beginning of the end of the Republican Party. Or the United States.

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      2. BrokenWill‏ @CodeElegant Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Id love to read a real piece on how/why that decision was made.

        5 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      3. Alys Corduroy‏ @AlysCorduroy Aug 26
        Replying to @CodeElegant @emptywheel

        Has Steve Schmidt written about it?

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      2. Laura Roberts‏ @lorelilee18346 Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        It wasn’t really him, though he always took the blame for it. It was a combo of the RNC, Steve Schmidt, and a few other not smart cronies. He wanted Joe Lieberman and let himself be talked out of it.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Travis McGee‏ @procrastin Aug 27
        Replying to @lorelilee18346 @emptywheel

        Kristol had a hand in it, same as his 1993 memo was a roadmap. His anti-Trumpism is a running joke at the moment. He built this base much as any GOP power player.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Laura Roberts‏ @lorelilee18346 Aug 27
        Replying to @procrastin @emptywheel

        Agreed. Also are you living on The Busted Flush in Ft. Lauderdale or have you moved on?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Travis McGee‏ @procrastin Aug 27
        Replying to @lorelilee18346 @emptywheel

        Still at Slip F18 Bahia Mar. Very few tweeps have picked up on that. I read once that JDM considered Meyer, not McGee, to be his alter ego.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Laura Roberts‏ @lorelilee18346 Aug 27
        Replying to @procrastin @emptywheel

        I’ve read all the books twice. I was madly in love with McGee for years. I think it might be an age thing, most people under 40 would find his views old-fashioned. Honor, respect, dignity, kindness, not so much in favor now.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Travis McGee‏ @procrastin Aug 28
        Replying to @lorelilee18346 @emptywheel

        Tough guy with a heart. Vachss “Burke” is another. Jack Reacher is the closest modern example and I gravitate to that type. Key thing, violence is the last resort, but satisfying when it comes.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Bob Clark‏ @badgercrack Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Still think there's an untold story there or at least one I've not heard.

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      2. Scary Weather‏ @Plainehome1 Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Palin was the beta version of Trump.

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      1. Travis McGee‏ @procrastin Aug 27
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Misses point that the GOP wanted what Palin represented. McCain went along. The seeds of that resentment were planted long before 2008.

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      1. Rob Montague‏ @trilingual1946 Aug 26
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Like the guy said, he made plenty of mistakes. At least he had the humility and cojones to admit that. In politics that's unbelievably rare.

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