Go back 12 years and Schmidt and Murphy managed the worst campaign in the history of NY state politics Rick Lazio’s run against Hillary. My cousin, a good friend and adviser to Lazio, expected to win as state GOP polling had never seen a candidate with higher negatives than Clinton. Then Schmidt and Murphy, fresh from McCain’s losing campaign, were hired by Lazio at McCain’s urging and what followed was the single worst campaign anyone had ever seen. Yet for the GOP nothing succeeds like failure. Schmidt and Murphy are still thought of as geniuses.
I don’t understand what you meant to say? McCain told Lazio to hire Schmidt/Murphy back in the day?