[Big_Monkey]

Schmidt admits that McCain's first choice for VP was Lieberman. How McCain could be in politics for almost 30 years think that the Republicans would allow a very liberal Democrat on the ticket as VP, is really dumbfounding.

[bicyclerepair]

I truly believe that McLame was the result of a reverse operation chaos.

CLOSE THE DAMN PRIMARIES!

[a fool in paradise]

Howard Dean staffers from his website were among the first to hop onboard the McCain campaign back in 2006 (google Democrats for McCain 2006).

He had other Democrats on his campaign staff in 2007. When he’d secured the GOP nomination in 2008, they bailed and went over to the Obama campaign. I wonder if they posed for a “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” photo.

[prismsinc]

Steve Schmidt, the phallic symbol for American politics

[dfwgator]

Schmidt, Plouffe: McCain was a long shot

Gee, ya think?!?

[a fool in paradise]

“This was, in my view, the unfinished Bobby Kennedy campaign – the idealism, the passion, the inspiration he gave to people, it was organic and it was real and it wasn’t manufactured at a tactical level in the campaign.”

If he truly believes that OBAMA(TM) wasn’t manufactured, then he must be on some good dope. It was PURELY a Warholian strategy of 15 minutes of fame, complete with a pop-art poster by a famous youth commie oriented pop-art artist. Songs. Celebrity. MTV. Rolling Stoned. Messiah imagery.

Not manufactured. What a fool.

[yongin]

McCain holds the Senate seat of the late Barry Goldwater. If Liberman did end up as Veep, McCain would have ended with a Goldwater style loss.

[norton]

The comments attributed to these two morons, and the campaign/election they helped to simulate, do not deserve comment.

They certainly do not deserve repetition.

[JacksonCalhoun]

Call me a moron. I thought McCain had a shot. Not because he was a great politician, his acceptance speech at the GOP convention was dreadful and let out the air of Sarah Palin's rousing speech the night before. But because he had a history of at least liking his country a little bit, rotting in an NVA prison for 5 years, suffering damages to his body that cripple him to this day.

Meanwhile, on the other side his opponent was an unaccomplished punk, 8 years a back-bencher in the Illinois State Senate, 4 years a back-bencher in the biggest collection of losers known to mankind, the U.S. Senate, and all we knew about him was that he certainly talked a good game, but he faithfully attended church for 20 long years run by a whitey-hating pastor. That and one of his early backers was an unrepentant domestic terrorist.

Alas, I was, as George H.W. Bush would put it "Dead Wrong", and legions of my fellow suburbanites fell in line along with armies of other politically brain-dead idiots who voted for this knucklehead, and here we are, Germany or Russia, take your pick, 75-90 years ago.

[exit82]

We not only had the Manchurian candidate in McCain, we had the Manchurian campaign manager in Schmidt.

Schmidt has “come out” recently.

It is now obvious that this was all a joke on us.

The only real person in the Presidential campaign was Sarah Palin.

[Tublecane]

In other words, “Please hire me again.”

[Richard Kimball]

Schmidt, the father of hundreds of attacks on Obama, spoke of the president’s political skills with unabashed admiration.

Hundreds of attacks? H*ll, McCain's people spent more time attacking Sarah Palin than attacking Obama.

[LouD]

Nevertheless, he almost pulled it off.

If it weren’t for the escalating economic crisis (the timing of which I find highly suspicious) he would have made it.

[True Republican Patriot]

Nice to know that McCain was going to pick a Guaranteed Loser for the Number 2 Spot and had picked this LOOSER to run his campaign! May GOD HELP US!

[poindexter]

McCain was always the longest of long-shot candidates.

Ho hum. Were they lying then, or are they lying now?

I don't even care anymore.

[onedoug]

I voted for Sarah.

...And will again.

[krb]

How McCain could be in politics for almost 30 years think that the Republicans would allow a very liberal Democrat on the ticket as VP, is really dumbfounding.

You do realize that McCain didn't pick Lieberman, right?

[wafflehouse]

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[Antoninus]

I just added Steve Schmidt to my list of "Five people I'd like to punch" on FaceBook.

Is it any wonder we lose elections with panty-wearing freaks like this running our campaigns?

[Mr Inviso]

Tell me again why we are even paying attention to S**t and Pouffe?

[steve-b]

McCain was always the longest of long-shot candidates.