[Magdalen] positive spin

[Jay Weigel]

Paul Ryan is a weenie. As Speaker, he couldn't even control his own party.
I don't think Mitch McConnell, who, despite all his creepiness, CAN do
that, has a very high opinion of Paul, I think the only thing he's setting
himself up for is a career as a wealthy, slimy lobbyist. He knew he was
going to get his clock cleaned by whichever Democrat won the primary, and
he'd never lost a Republican one in that district (you have to have some
appreciation of how his gerrymandered district works to appreciate that,
and I do, since it's next door to the one in which I grew up). If the
Republicans don't quickly come up with *something* they are going to lose
that seat, because now the front runner is a horrible racist/nazi who's
been banned from Twitter.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:52 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
wrote:

> The deciding factor came when Walter Cronkite figuratively stepped out
> from behind the anchor desk to state an opinion (the one and only time he
> did this) to criticize the Vietnam War on location in Vietnam.  Johnson
> said to an aide “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost the nation,”
>
> -------------------------------------
> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> jhandsfield at att.net
>
> > On Apr 12, 2018, at 9:21 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > LBJ was intimidated by the New Hampshire  Primary when Gene McCarthy
> showed such strength, and then Bobby Kennedy declared his candidacy, that
> he announced he would not seek re-election.
>
>