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I've never used the word 'lodestar' in my life - so I know I didn't write that op-ed.

Well, if it is Pence, I guess he gets points for writing it, loses most of them for doing so anonymously, and even more for the self-serving motivations that are likely at least partially in play.

Still, he has a few points earned, I think.

and is to an entire article that yes includes the tweets. Rawstory is a news aggregator after all:
the embedded link is https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/word-anonymous-new-york-times-op-ed-may-prove-mike-pence-wrote/#.W5BjyF72xQo.twitter

Raw Story often takes someones tweets and strings them together - puts on a clickbait headline - and gets people to click on their garbage website.

The totality of what is in the Raw Story "article" is a series of tweets from Dan Bloom.

and includes discussion/content not contained within the tweets--thus an article.

Obviously you have a hangup with Raw story and other news aggregators Fine. I don't necessarily disagree, but get a grip, oberliner. This is hardly something to jump all over me or some other Duer about.

I read it. It's a bunch of drivel. Self-congratulatory, self-justifying, Republican normalizing, greedy drivel. Full of praise for destruction of the environment, theft of wealth from the people to the very richest, and all the other "good" things the writer praises.

It's impossible for me to describe the nausea I feel at this piece of drivel.

this and just might be even more convinced they need to vote for Dems in the midterms?

How can anything that shows an emerging consensus that Trump is unfit for the office be unhelpful?

It's the beginning of the Republican Party distancing themselves from Trump, now that they have everything they wanted.

It's a guy tweeting.

And Pence doesn't write his own speeches. All of the times he is cited in the tweets using the word are from pre-written speeches and statements, not written by him.

And his current speechwriter is new as of last year. So he's used it through more than one speechwriter.

... stabbing Red Don in the back wanting to distance himself from the Kremlin KKKlan

Though it's not likely anyone in the White House is anywhere near that clever....

It's such a glaring identifier - someone actually trying to be anonymous might not use such unique language.

that sources in this White House word their quotes to sound like other people. Insanity.

Several Trump Admin officials attended or watched the funeral and would have heard that term lodestar, so just because Pence used it in a speech is no proof that he wrote the editorial

No way.

Someone picked the word up at McCains funeral

In fact McCains funeral caused this

Not sure where you're getting that one.

Trump goes, Pence gets in

No way they want any part of that

Pence didn't write it anyway

With this information, do you honestly believe they would keep it secret?

Just because of one word people are saying Pence

Pence would have gone to Fox News for cover. If it was Pence trying to get the job, that would be a coup.

Link to tweet

Pence can't lose his job.

that compare anonymous writings to attributed writings.

FUCK PENCE. He needs to be exiled to Russia as quickly as tRump.

Pence has his own deep shit regarding his adventures in Guatemala with funding regime change and abuse of office. I wouldn't put it past him to do an "Et tu, Brutus" moment, tho...

proceedings, one of the two ways we can get rid of the orange asshole?? If Pence DID write that, then he's an effin' coward for not doing the one thing he could actually do that would make a difference.

The op ed was well written and anyone who can write that well certainly also knows how to throw in a little hip swivel to throw off the tacklers.

there's been a lot of that going on

I recall someone - was it Bannon? -- saying they often used words and phrases in tweets, memos, etc of other people so that those other people would get fingered for something Bannon (or whoever) said. Anyone else recall this?

NYT says

"The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. "

Pence would have to be impeached. Trump can't fire him.

Is Pence such?

Link to tweet

He should resign.

then the next in line successor to the POTUS.

I would use words and style associated with others.

Poor Pence. I can’t imagine what Trump will do to him once this sets in. I sure hope ole Pence is clean, as Trump will likely air any dirty laundry.

Link to tweet