You just made me look at the OP author - we share a first name.

If by ‘opportunist’ you mean someone who wants a job, then yes. You get paid to do a job. I do it. You do it. Tyler did it.

I’m really trying to come up with a witty snarky reply to this, but I can’t because of the tears.

Let me help... It’s the dawning of the 12th century in the year of Our Lord and white men run everything. And when white men aren’t running things (they have to eat and sleep, ya know), they have white men to speak for them.

I loathe ‘me too’ posts, but me too?

Win for the LotR reference.

I understand your sentiment, but this isn’t how professional politics works. When you work for a candidate, particularly as spokescritter, you say what the candidate tells you to say. Full stop. Period. If you’re good at your job, which he is, you say it in creative ways. You rewrite journalists’ questions in your…

I wish I could find unbiased media... even my local news heads raise a judgmental eyebrow when they’re reporting a car wreck.

I should really read all the comments before I post... and then just say ‘THIS’ and stay in the greys...

I understand this - but being a spokescritter for someone else and speaking for yourself are completely different skill sets. If he can speak for himself and speak to how the process works, then welcome to my favorite news network. Steele did it, even though his early days were awkward, to say the least.

Absolutely nothing about this surprises me. I’ve been involved in politics (on the paid end, not just the voting end) for decades, and you can only fail upwards. Take the fall? Add a 0 to your next paycheck.

I read it as real....

I am currently covered in cats - and 2 of them are grey. I think I’m home:)

I have a story that just happened... I have a phone message from a student’s Mother. aKicking my ass for teaching her snowflake science... in a fucking science class.

Stay with us! I’ve been in the comment wars on other sites (Hi Kos!) for a decade - this place is kittens and unicorns. And, if nothing else, you have a friend in me.

I hope you’re moving somewhere warm. Or cool:) But good gods, please tell me you’re not moving to Ohio:)

Thank you. It’s nice to see someone so young (and you are in my eyes) say/type this out loud. Don’t like abortions? Fine - who does? I don’t like tonsilectomies either. But I will not, under any circumstances, try to legislate, murder, terrorize or otherwise discourage your option for having one. I will not defund…

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Of course... just like I’m going to be barren and undesirable and depressed after my perfectly legal medical procedure.

I see what you did there...