Lynn Schmidt 

Editorial Board Member and Columnist with @STLToday, RN, Center-right, Cardinals fan, lover of nuance, Principles First

Please welcome the Eighth Dwarf. Can Glenn Youngkin save the Republican Party? Probably not. You can’t save people who don’t want to be saved.

The Eighth Dwarf?

Notes are live! Here to see what the fuss is about.

Whispers: Don’t tell Elon Musk.

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Hmmm...Christmas is coming, and we're always looking for something unique for my mother-in-law. I just worry she'd really like it.

I'm hoping that this author is unmasked as one of those weird actors/performance artists types, like Vincent Gallo, and it's all a joke.

Who am I kidding? That would be too easy.

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Thanks, and I feel for you Lynn, being one of Hawley's constituents.

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I don't want to flatter you people. Don't want it to go to your head. But so far, you've been wonderful. Even you bastards who disagree with me. (And are wrong - but I welcome your dissents.) I've only had two subs cancellations thus far, which on this topic, is something like a miracle. If we can have this many commenters on all sides of the ball on the most divisive issue of our day kind of get along, well, I don't want to say it restores my faith in our country. But it sort of does. Though …