Alternative strategy: A little humility? Unvarnished apology from Biden? (Didn’t Obama apologize after his first Romney debate?) Statements from Biden aides and apparatchiks admitting they shouldn’t have called those worried about his age “bed-wetters”? Beer summit with Friedman,… https://t.co/A9OMRDMMZ4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2024
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July 01, 2024 at 01:13AM
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“Joe Biden is not Barack Obama. He’s not Ronald Reagan. Heck, he’s not even Bill Clinton. Spare us the lazy ahistorical comparisons and the romantic underdog narratives.” Why wasn’t anyone saying this when half the press was fueling Biden’s FDR2 ego trip? (Also I’d put Clinton… https://t.co/uQSeWE2VZN https://t.co/EMp1RxYKAt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2024
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July 01, 2024 at 12:48AM
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I’m beginning to think Biden’s defense strategy of attacking and belittling his doubting supporters is pissing off so many of them that his chances of winning are now dramatically lower than they even were right after the debate. For example, how does Tim Alberta get on board… https://t.co/3zQwx97xCH https://t.co/EMp1RxYKAt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 1, 2024
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July 01, 2024 at 12:45AM
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Axios: Dem candidates “Running from Biden.”
Hello? You mean “HIDIN’ FROM BIDEN.” Have some professional pride, for God’s sake https://t.co/IBG7vHfnwU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 06:25PM
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Biden aides failing to understand that when you are the designated fall guys you are supposed to take the fall. https://t.co/HyvXAVlUrg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 06:19PM
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“And so, whether [Biden’s] the candidate or someone else is the candidate, he is going to be the keynote speaker at our convention”–ringing vote of confidence from Jamie Raskin https://t.co/aRwXFBhB6m
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 05:46PM
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“[T]he fundamental task for a replacement nominee is to run a little better than Biden would in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. I think it’s obvious a Gretchen Whitmer-Josh Shapiro ticket would be better positioned to do that than Harris would.” https://t.co/WlZP8NUahR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 05:30PM
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Kamala’s “biggest problem is that she is the sitting vice president, and therefore she has less ability to run away from Biden’s unpopular record on the economy and immigration than any other possible replacement would.” https://t.co/kaocZv9njW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 05:26PM
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Mike Kinsley has a law that any time the press uses the “From A to B” formulation to show the breadth of something is actually shows the narrowness of the something. Almost always holds, as it does here. https://t.co/WO80JtO50a
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 05:16PM
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Mike Kinsley has a law that any time the press uses the “From A to B” formulation to show the breadth of something is actually shows the narrowness of something. Almost always holds, as it does here. https://t.co/WO80JtO50a
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 05:07PM
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Harmonic implosion of the Bidens https://t.co/LgxiFpi2dD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 05:01PM
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You’re always angriest when you are partly guilty yourself. Did media/pundits really seriously believe it or did they foolishly will themselves into believing it so as not to help Trump? And lots of voters also believed what they were saying! (They’re angry too.) https://t.co/HaXRe5VlMF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 04:20PM
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Is a sign he has big limitations! I think he should stand down (especially if his now-obvious limitations contributed to the border disaster-you know more than me on that). But his debate preppers-like his ESPN-preppers-are supposed to work with those limits. They failed. Both… https://t.co/09x0u6vm0S https://t.co/LyOzMCCcLt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 04:13PM
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But I still think, in that situation. you drill him on a simple answer and tell him to stick to it. Like Bill Veeck telling the 3′ 7″ Eddie Gaedel not to swing. https://t.co/CyHcgbFBKH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 04:04PM
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If only we still had a Clark Clifford, who could call up Biden, tell him to stand down, and send a bill for 2 million dollars.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:58PM
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That was the problem … https://t.co/gjnSDIVpMP
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Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:54PM
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Of course it would be his job to say “Wait a minute. Let’s keep it simple, stupid.” He doesn’t seem like a guy who wouldn’t say that, unless he was radically overconfident (check!) or weakened (???). https://t.co/YUxq8ANE5T
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:51PM
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They were priming him to do a double jackknife with a twist when all he could do–and needed to do–was dive into the pool. https://t.co/xs4oKaL2tc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:48PM
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Re overprep: A lawyer emails–
“My whole career has been getting ready for and participating in oral arguments, and I can tell you that Biden’s condition during the debate was that they had spent a long time cramming him full of specifics about what to say about particular… https://t.co/GJGSZOKIlG https://t.co/OhLyGBWBt5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:44PM
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.@daveweigel has made that point, and concluded it must be gibberish. I think he was trying to make some double-bank-shot point that ‘Hey you MAGA types say women are being raped by migrants. Don’t you want abortions for them? Ha!” Way too complicated and tenuous, obviously. https://t.co/85gGVnaIIU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:40PM
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If you’re a top White House aide focused on *your* future–say your name rhymes with “rain” and “Spain”–until Thursday your future was clearly yoked to Biden’s. Now your future is more tied to having friends in the press.
So finally some aides are talking (for publication) https://t.co/HyvXAVlUrg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:33PM
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Expect a new Biden-Harris mailing lashing out at “self-important Podcasters” and “ass-covering White House aides” … https://t.co/9W8UlPvLml
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:30PM
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And you can’t blame the debate prep when the preppers–finally talking to press–don’t take even a bit of the blame https://t.co/Q6a3mdvUPh We did what we always do! He did Ok in practice! He just totally choked! https://t.co/OhLyGBWBt5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:28PM
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Biden had a plausible post-debacle strategy of blaming the debate prep-he was clearly overprepared with complex answers. But the ‘Jill kept us from the truth’ defense throws that strategy into the trash-it wasn’t the debate prep, it was *him*. That’s how he is? We didn’t know! https://t.co/uC4QSvKxLk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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June 30, 2024 at 03:24PM
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Thompson says “many current and former White House aides” are “shocked.” He means “shocked, shocked” … https://t.co/uC4QSvKxLk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2024
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