Posted on 07/22/2015 5:52:38 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
The top strategist to Senator John McCains 2008 presidential campaign is calling out the Republican Party for not standing up to Donald Trump when it had the chance.
Steve Schmidt, who ran the day to day operations on McCains losing bid to Barack Obama, told Hardballs Chris Matthews that Trump was given a free pass in his consistent questioning of President Obamas birthplace.
I said it was despicable then, it was wrong then, it undermined the legitimacy of the duly elected commander-in-chief. It was wrong and Republicans should have repudiated it, Schmidt said. We paid a price for it, and to some degree we are reaping what we sowed in a feckless political class that didnt call it out.
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Why else is he on MSNBC?
Top strategist for democRATs, at best.
They are desperate!
“The top strategist to Senator John McCains 2008 presidential campaign ... Steve Schmidt.”
Say no more.
Excellent point! Trump's popularity is the backlash to Schmidt's GOP based liberalism.
It really is true. These people are stuck in the past!
Nonsense. The reason for Trump’s success is a Republican Congress that promised multiple popular conservative programs to achieve power and then backed off and rejected every single one of them as soon as they were voted in. They backstabbed their constituency in favor elite establishment money and perks. Trump is the predictable revolt against that. Trump is pretty much taking the same positions Republicans did leading up to the 2014 midterms. I think people believe there is no way they will every get the entrenched political class to deliver on these things so maybe an outsider like Trump, who doesn’t need the support of the corporate moneymasters, will actually come through and deliver. Trump and his support resembles a populist third party candidate much more than a Republican.
“”it undermined the legitimacy of the duly elected commander-in-chief””
Well, I count that as the first (and probably the last) laugh of the day!!
Open borders extremists hate the birth cert issue. I wonder why? /rhetorical
-PJ
That is an excellent analogy.
Top McCain Strategist.
Lol.
It is definitely reaping what it sowed. Trumps the result of passive do nothing feckless country club republicanism of people like John McCain, who is a complete backstabber.
Didn't Mitt Romney also hire this putz? He seems to be a top strategist on losing elections, a GOPe plant or a Democrat. Maybe all of the above.
Stand up to him, and he’ll just take his fortune to go run third-party and bury you. No way to take him out, Shmitty Boy.
McCain sends his chief Infiltration Unit to PMSNBC to setup a hatchet job on Trump.
Steve Schmidt is probably the key security leak within the GOP passing tactical information to Reid and Pelosi.
Steve Schmidt = FAILURE, LOSER, Didn’t WIN Strategist
This clown has ZERO credibility. Who cares what he thinks or says?
You lost INDIANA. How the foxtrot do you lost Indiana?
I gotta agree—he’s the worst and most insufferable of an incredibly bad and insufferable bunch of GOP hacks.
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