Posted on 11/01/2013 8:44:04 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Discussing video of Sen. Ted Cruz’s father telling a crowd he wants to send President Barack Obama “back to Kenya,” former John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt says the GOP has some ideas about where the Texas senator can go.
“A lot of Republicans I think tonight look at Ted Cruz and wish Ted Cruz would go back to Canada,” Schmidt said Thursday night on MSNBC’s “Last Word.”
Schmidt was referencing the fact that Texas Republican was born in Canada, though experts say his American mother still makes him a natural citizen if he were to run for president.
The Republican strategist said the party knows it needs to reach minority voters, and that Cruz continues to lead them off message and drive down their popularity.
“At a time when Republicans have opportunities to really define the policy deficiencies, I would argue in Obamacare, we’re once again talking about distractions caused by Ted Cruz tonight,” Schmidt said. “We’re following ideologues down a policy path that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the Republican Party’s ability to compete as a national party.
They just can’t keep their fn mouths shut, can they?
Who let the dogs out?
[PDS RINO] Nicole Wallace Warns Republicans to Stop Railing Against The Obama Administration
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3086228/posts
“We’re following ideologues down a policy path that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the Republican Party’s ability to compete as a national party.”
No Steve, that would be the GOPe corporatists.
“former John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt says the GOP has some ideas about where the Texas senator can go.”
A loser adviser to a loser rino gives us his loser opinion. One wonders if those like him don’t actually draw a paycheck from the demonrat party because they certainly have no clue what actual Conservative think.
Remove 3 letters fom his last and you’ll see what he’s full of.
Obama’s PC Democrat-style words have kept our sorry RINOs from Impeaching Obama.
Work to “Primary-Out” our sorry Congressional RINOS in the 2014 Congressional Election.
We win or lose at the 2014 ballot box.
There will be NO Retreat.
Impeach Obama in December, 2014!
Steve Schmidt ids a loser and always has been. The reason he is pissed at Cruz is because he beat the snot out of the establishment Bush Republicans in Texas and is kicking Schmidt style Republican A$$ nationwide.
The nomination is Cruz’s for the taking. All he needs is the desire and he can be the next Republican nominee and if he refuses the ‘help’ of Schmidt style Republicans he can win a solid victory in 2016.
Some may wish McCain had never left that “hotel” about 40 years ago. Putz.
Well .. the next time Steve mouths off .. why doesn’t somebody with a brain ask him if he knows how many times McCain has received an 8 minute and 15 minute standing ovation FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS A SENATOR IN CONGRESS ..??
If you’re not an “ideologue” than what do you stand for, what are your goals, and what do you want to make the government do or not do? Are you just going to poll every single issue and do whatever’s getting 51% at that moment in time, something like Clinton’s 2nd term? Well, that’s a little better than what Obama is doing, but the polls are wildly inconsistent. And there are many things the public will never be able to know about or predict, for instance the mortgage crisis, the Obamacare health insurance crisis and pretty much anything relating to foreign policy. You have to have your own vision for what you’re going to do. If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Yes in 2008 these same braintrusts that are the McCainiacs were bitching about how bad the birthers...
The McCain wing of the party makes me SICK SICK SICK
strategist? lolol
Losing is not a success story.
Steve Schmidt...... this bullet head stooge has made millions with his awful advice. He could probably buy out Karl Rove by now
They think it is a bad idea act like the opposition party apparently
Isnt it adorable when so-called Republicans sound exactly like liberals..remember, Schmidt and Wallace were the two brain dead liberals who ran McCain’s campaign and are buddy buddy with Mitt Romney..gee..I wonder why those two lost
I always enjoy commentary on how we can win from LOSERS... who LOST... BADLY...
/sarc
My default position on elections is to vote for the most conservative non-Democrat who can win - usually that’s a reasonable Republican, sometimes it’s a RINO. At the national level of course it’s been losers like McCain and Romney.
But in the future I will not vote for any candidate who hires Steve Schmidt as an advisor. And I think the Tea Party and every national conservative group worth its name should make it clear that they will encourage their voters not to vote for any candidate who hires this pr*ck.
When it becomes clear to people running for office that hiring Steve Schmidt means that a sizable fraction of your base will be staying home, maybe that jerkweed will find that running his mouth will have cost him his livelihood.
For me the Republican Establishment can go to HELL - one way ticket only. Cruz is now the head leader of the conservative movement. GET USE TO IT!
“We’re following ideologues down a policy path that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the Republican Party’s ability to compete as a national party.”
This Schmidt guy can’t stand the possibility of Pubbies walking away from collectivist path they’ve been on for the past 100 or so years.
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