When DeSantis talks about policy he’s really OK. Doesn’t use jargon, answers the question, doesn’t waste your time, gives you a pretty clear idea of what his thought process is. [This from mass phone meeting he just held, where he took (vetted) questions.]
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 05:39PM
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I mean Hootie’s upscale? @taylorswift13 is downscale? Not sure of that. https://t.co/NrTxyi9QlV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 04:51PM
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Only a few hours left to vote https://t.co/Hxf2y2wEq4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 04:45PM
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I mean Hootie’s upscale? Swift is downscale? Not sure of that. https://t.co/NrTxyi9QlV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 04:35PM
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Always read @JMart, but never let him attempt a colorful metaphor. “[T]hat would only tempt her to return home to South Carolina and discover that she’s Hootie and the Blowfish to Trump’s Taylor Swift.” Hmm. I’ll get up and get a beer & think about it https://t.co/EPNyUAoyCj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 04:33PM
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We’re going to have to do something about Social Security whatever candidates say. So if you’re Nikki Haley why make an issue of it and give Democrats a club with which to beat you? Answer seems to be to look responsible to the elite circles Haley seems to need to impress. https://t.co/j1CEE0aEeM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 04:14PM
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“Iowa Republicans have the chance to pick a presidential candidate just once every four or eight years. They’re not going to stay home and watch it on TV.” https://t.co/TQ0Vr1ebdK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 04:03PM
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At the Haley appearance I saw, she did not make this case. (She basically gave a truncated version of her stump speech.) https://t.co/zeDXIfqIWX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 03:17PM
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I would think this Babydog business would get old pretty fast, no? https://t.co/V4jzDtyqBr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 03:08PM
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And we trust her about Trump’s sexual assault? https://t.co/4ELicIv6wE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 03:03PM
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At Biden events in early 2020, anybody could just walk in and talk to anyone else. It was kind of … democratic. Almost inspiringly loose. (Of course he wasn’t doing very well in early states didn’t have to worry about excessive crowd enthusiasm.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 02:04PM
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I don’t know if there’s much correlation between campaign event management and actual governing style. I do know the loosest-policed events I’ve been to in recent years were Obama’s and Biden’s. Maybe there is a correleation with winning.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 01:53PM
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Weigel: “DeSantis, whose political skill set does not include a poker face …” https://t.co/pExiGUE8z7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 01:49PM
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At the Haley event I attended, credentialed reporters were told not to ask questions of voters in the taped-off audience area if they were “unescorted” by staff. Controlling! What were they worried about? (In any event, widely ignored.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 01:48PM
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At Iowa campaign stops, Haley talks for 20 minutes and doesn’t take questions. The allegedly people-averse DeSantis spends an hour and takes questions https://t.co/pExiGUE8z7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 12, 2024 at 01:44PM
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Shock poll! https://t.co/Hxf2y2wEq4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 11:05PM
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Nikki Haley is
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 10:31PM
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Idea that we can just go down to Latin America and teach them how to deal with gangs has obvious resonance with similar neocon insanity about ease of ‘standing up’ democracy in Afghanistan and nation-building in general. https://t.co/3FhcDaJoP2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 10:24PM
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.@ellisitems (https://t.co/GkhhhUvvV1 says some Trump aides think RFK Jr. hurt’s *Trump* in battleground states. See https://t.co/j5ksbTNAhu https://t.co/7UfnoUwKKM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 09:57PM
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She also implies she leads in all of these polls when she loses to Biden in half of them. https://t.co/uNtR7J6Pa1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 09:51PM
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Do Democrats think they are going to get an amnesty for screwing up the border? Apparently … https://t.co/OB2ZRQ6Z1y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 09:46PM
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BURIED LEDE: RFK Jr. at 18% in Reuters national poll. (Biden at 29, Trump 30.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 12, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 09:33PM
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Haley (in IA): “If Ukraine wins, China won’t invade Taiwan. We know that.”
We do?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 11, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 03:54PM
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My favorite Haley answer, when asked about her killing of a “bathroom bill,’ as governor: “[T]hat was 10 years ago.”‘ https://t.co/NGdSOZ2HRx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 11, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 01:25AM
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You laugh https://t.co/5VFX6GGRGO https://t.co/VPi0FYjbS2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 11, 2024
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January 11, 2024 at 01:19AM
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