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Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party
MSN News ^ | June 20, 2018 | Felicia Sonmez

Posted on 06/20/2018 9:28:42 AM PDT by detective

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Full title: ‘Today I renounce my membership’: Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), announced early Wednesday that he is leaving the Republican Party, which he decried as “fully the party of Trump” and “a danger to our democracy and values.”

In early-morning tweets, Schmidt, a vocal Trump critic, urged voters to elect Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections and harshly criticized the administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S. border, describing the government-run detention centers as “internment camps for babies.”

“29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life,” Schmidt wrote. “Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: gop; saboteur; schmidt
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Schmidt is a slimy liar who ran the incompetent, train wreck of a campaign for McCain in 2008.

He knifed Sarah Palin in the back and sabotaged the losing campaign.

Since then he has been calling himself a "Republican strategist" to the media while he attacks conservatives and works to help Democrats and leftist.

He is simply a slime ball.

Now, he runs to the Washington Post and cries about how he is no longer a Republican and has left the party.

Good. He should go away and never come back.

1 posted on 06/20/2018 9:28:42 AM PDT by detective
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He was always a Democrat in an R jersey just like his boss McCain.


2 posted on 06/20/2018 9:30:00 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

President Donald J. Trump sure can smoke ‘em out.


3 posted on 06/20/2018 9:30:04 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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More swamp sludge gets flushed. This is a good thing.


4 posted on 06/20/2018 9:30:07 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
5 posted on 06/20/2018 9:30:28 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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Good riddance.


6 posted on 06/20/2018 9:30:44 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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He knifed Sarah Palin in the back and sabotaged the losing campaign.



Yes, yes he did.

7 posted on 06/20/2018 9:31:31 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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Another POS liberal gone!!!!!

Hoorah!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 06/20/2018 9:31:58 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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This is great news! We have to purge the party of weasels before we attract the far more numerous disaffected non-participants. As a bonus, internal spying and disruption is reduced.


9 posted on 06/20/2018 9:31:58 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Is he going to join the 40% of Democrats who are Socialists (per Hillary Clinton) or the other 60% who are full blown Communists?


10 posted on 06/20/2018 9:32:00 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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Sarah Palin did not know that they were supposed to lose.
She was running to win.
McCain was a willing Designated Loser.
Schmidt dispatched Nicole Wallace to kneecap Palin.


11 posted on 06/20/2018 9:32:05 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), announced early Wednesday that he is leaving the Republican Party, which he decried as “fully the party of Trump” and “a danger to our democracy and values.”

That comes as a real shock, with McStain having such strong small-r republican values. Oh wait...

12 posted on 06/20/2018 9:32:19 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Schmidt the $hit can get run over by a drunk driving illegal alien for all I care.

What a worthless sack of crap. The GOP is better off without this RAT spy.


13 posted on 06/20/2018 9:32:45 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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Good. Now this loser can go “help” the Democrats. (Exactly what campaign success stories does this guy actually have?)


14 posted on 06/20/2018 9:32:46 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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15 posted on 06/20/2018 9:32:52 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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Good Riddance.


16 posted on 06/20/2018 9:33:06 AM PDT by RoadieFan
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Jerk. Flake and McCain wanted rapid arrests in 2015; which would have been essentially what POTUS is doing now:

https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2015/3/flake-mccain-introduce-resolution-on-operation-streamline


17 posted on 06/20/2018 9:33:13 AM PDT by JustTheTruth
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Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain

Then why are they calling him a GOP strategist? He's a Dem Strategist if he worked for McLame>

19 posted on 06/20/2018 9:33:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Leaving his party ???

Like Micheal Steele and Nicole Wallace he is a liberal playing a Fake Republican for MSNBC.

Dont forget Morning Joe.

There’s more there too.


20 posted on 06/20/2018 9:33:25 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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