Posted on 01/10/2010 5:35:37 PM PST by writer33
John McCain’s top campaign strategist said in an interview Sunday that Sarah Palin was dishonest as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee and that her untruths have done long-term damage to her public image.
“There were numerous instances that she said things that were – that were not accurate that ultimately, the campaign had to deal with,” said Steve Schmidt in an interview broadcast on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” “And that opened the door to criticism that she was being untruthful and inaccurate. And I think that is something that continues to this day.”
Schmidt is like some freepers...a social lib who thinks there is no culture war.
Here they congregate on southern threads calling my ancestors nazis and guess what....they don’t like Sarah either ...and it gets worse.
We don’t need these folks.
November 17, 2009
Steve Schmidt: Sore loser
Matthew May
Steve Schmidt is a loser.
That is not a smear but a documented fact. Schmidt managed the McCain for President campaign. McCain, as you will recall, lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 election. Schmidt and his candidate bungled the campaign so badly that an untested, smooth-talking, America-bashing dilettante now occupies the White House as Commander-in-Chief.
Great job, guys!
Like a diligent virus, Schmidt refuses to leave the body politic. He is back again to call Sarah Palin’s new book “total fiction.” Interesting.
The list of Schmidt’s disastrous campaign decisions is too long to completely document here. But we conservatives will long remember the propping up of the clown Huckabee to slam Mitt Romney during the primaries, and the idiotic suspension of the campaign - as if the outcome of the financial crisis hinged on McCain’s famous “reach across” move on the Senate floor. Not until it was entirely too late did the McCain campaign attempt to tie candidate Obama to the likes of Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, let alone call into question Obama’s mysterious background and activities as a student and so-called community organizer. Schmidt and McCain totally bought in to the multicultural hogwash that dictates any legitimate criticism of a person because they may happen to be sort of a minority totally out of bounds.
Most disappointing to those of us residing in the Great Lakes State was Schmidt and McCain throwing Michigan to the wolves. Despite the pleas of voters here and the vice presidential nominee herself, Schmidt and McCain decided that ceding this ground to the most famous member of the United Church of Christ and trampling the chances of candidates like Jack Hoogendyk, who was attempting to remove Carl Levin from the Senate, was really smart. Perhaps McCain didn’t want to hurt Carl’s feelings. It’s like that in the Senate, you see.
The one thing - the only thing - the McCain campaign got right was introducing Sarah Palin to the national stage. Were it not for Palin, McCain would have joined Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter in bringing up the rear of their classes at the Electoral College. As it stands, Schmidt is about on par with Bob Shrum as a total political loser who, somehow, maintains prominence when it comes to commenting on the affairs of state and politics.
John S. McCain III has done two valiant deeds for the United States: He endured the humiliating and debilitating torture on behalf of all of us as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. And he introduced Sarah Palin to the national scene, electrifying the conservative base for the first time in a long time. During the campaign McCain often referred to himself as a “foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution.” That may have been the case at some point in time, but that soldier had been AWOL until Palin was named his vice presidential running mate.
So when a hack like Steve Schmidt says that Palin’s book is “total fiction,” consider the source. He and his bitter aides should retreat to the sidelines for a long, long time and reflect upon how badly their bungling stupidity and unwillingness to tell the hard truths about candidate Obama has damaged the republic.
Is it any surprise that the Democrat newsrooms just LOVE this simple piece of schmidt? Whenever they need a chump to help them smear Republicans and conservatives, they can always kick over a rock and find Schmidt.
Wow, does this guy ever reflect poorly on McCain’s judgment...
Mr. Schmidt needs a dictionary. 'Non-plussed' means confused.
You wanna know when Obama’s lying..
When his lips move..yep, that simple. I bet Obama has room for Schmidt in his Administration. A fat, disgusting, lying, bastard, yep sounds like someone who would fit perfectly in Obama’s Administration
VR...what really pi$$es me off about this (and I am mad!) Is that the Harry Reid/Negro remark...the Bill Clinton/He (Obama) would have been serving us coffee years ago...and the Hillary Clinton WANTING to further make an issue of Obama’s ADMITTED coke use...
BUT...NO...ALL OF THAT in the Game Change book is overlooked, for Palin innuendo and rumor.
WOW! Sarah’s poll numbers must be thru the roof...because even when she is spreading her works...a few FB blurbs at a time...she is making them make her news.
If Pawlenty has Schmidthead working for him; Pawlwenty WILL NEVER get my vote.
McCain aide: Palin believed candidacy ‘God’s plan’
‘You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.’
Barack Obama
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Obama has a God complex
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter. They cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’
Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial.”
Agreed.
Why do you think the lib media loves Romney so much. They want him to be the nominee so that if he goes against Obama, they will bring out every single thing Romney has done..including RomneyCare, and Obama can use that to his advantage. Remember, everyday the media tells us who they KNOW can beat Obama
Schmidt and Johnson - two losers picking on the all American babe.
McCain let idiots call the shots for his campaign. They failed, yet they tried to pin it on Palin.
Cowards.
First, I can hardly believe 60 Minutes is still on the air. I haven’t watched it for well over a decade. Second, the show was never anything other than a rinse cycle for Democrat lies and spin, and obviously that tradition carries on to today.
I’m so damn sick of Steve Schmidt and I’m boiling mad too.
He needs to be destroyed and forever removed from Republican politics. I guess the only that can be accomplished is to let whomever hires him know that they won’t be getting our support as long as that puke is employed in their campaign.
He lied fiercely about Sarah.
I hate to sound like a Pollyanna, but I half expect McCain to take issue publically with much of what he said tonight.
That's a nice description of him. I applaud your restraint. LOL!
If Pawlenty has Schmidthead working for him; Pawlwenty WILL NEVER get my vote.
Still would like to know who "headquarters" was, but McCain sure as hell didn't seem to stop any of the crap that went down upon Sarah. That makes him at worst, weak and ineffective.
You just nailed it!
Ah, so it’s his LESBIAN sister who’s gay and not necessarily himself, because he’s married with three children. Thanks, maggief.
This is Schmidt’s final goodbye. He knows he is finished. He is a sack of garbage, I wouldn’t trust him to pick up my dog’s poop off the damn grass. He is PATHETIC and so is McCain. I know Sarah respects him for picking her and all, but I just can’t stand McCain, he saw this all happening and didnt do a damn thing to stop it. I know Sarah supports him, but I hope McCain goes down in a ball of flames in November
I call it as I see it :-)
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