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Schmidt calls Palin claims 'total fiction'
CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-11-14

Posted on 11/14/2009 1:47:49 PM PST by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON (CNN) - John McCain's former presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt is the latest McCain adviser to cry foul over accusations Sarah Palin has penned in her yet to be released memoir "Going Rogue."

Excerpts obtained by The Huffington Post characterize Schmidt in an unfavorable light, particularly in reference to the prank phone call Palin received from someone pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "Right away, the phones started ringing," Palin writes. "One of the first calls was Schmidt, and the force of his screaming blew my hair back. 'How can anyone be so stupid?! Why would the president of France call a vice presidential candidate a few days out?!'"

In a telephone conversation with CNN's John King, Schmidt said how he is described and portrayed in the book is "fanciful. [And] total fiction."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: goingrogue; mccain; operationleper; palin; pds; pimpromney; pimpromneyhere; rino; rinos; romney; romney2lose; romneybotalert; romneypolisher; schmidt; schmidthead; stenchofromney; steveschmidt; waronsarah
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1 posted on 11/14/2009 1:47:53 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

Steve Schmidt is a horses ass. My apologizes to horses


2 posted on 11/14/2009 1:49:48 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rabscuttle385

Methinks that he doth protest too much.

I guess guilt does that to a person.


3 posted on 11/14/2009 1:50:42 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: rabscuttle385

I reckon I trust Sarah more than Schmidt ... by a long shot.


4 posted on 11/14/2009 1:51:30 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison!)
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To: rabscuttle385

M m M m..... CNN..... wasn’t that a the broken down state run news media program taht Lou Dobbs was on?.... thier still around?


5 posted on 11/14/2009 1:51:42 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Leaders who refuse to lead will be lead by the people)
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To: rabscuttle385

Gotta love it! The cock-a-roaches are being smoked out! LOL After all the lying and mistreatment of Gov Palin, I bet their buttholes have been puckering since the news hit about a ‘book’ deal. Now they all have to make the ‘rounds’ on discredited networks! HA!


6 posted on 11/14/2009 1:52:06 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (I will die on my feet before I live on my knees.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Gosh, what a delimma...do I believe what Sarah Palin wrote in a book, making herself vulnerable to a libel suit, or the "honorable" Steve Schmidt of the "McCan't" campaign...gee, I don't know (wringing my hands) /sarc

With all of the crap coming out of the mccan't campaign, I think I'll stick with Sarah's version of the events. If she's lying, I'm sure Schmidt will come forward with the proof and sue Palin.

WAiting.....waiting.....waiting.............
7 posted on 11/14/2009 1:52:32 PM PST by FrankR (To Congress: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Now why would he put Sarah on a diet? Another excerpt I read was that he told her she ate too much protein and he hired a nutritionist to balance out her diet. He wanted her to eat more carbs.

Control freak!


8 posted on 11/14/2009 1:52:42 PM PST by nomoremods
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Schmidt is on his way to becoming the RINO equivalent of Bob Shrum.


9 posted on 11/14/2009 1:52:54 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: rabscuttle385

Steve "I want my sister to marry a woman" Schmidt.

10 posted on 11/14/2009 1:53:04 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain is fiction a fraud, deceiver a phony.


11 posted on 11/14/2009 1:53:04 PM PST by boomop1
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Even McCain admitted that his handlers messed up with Sarah, and replaced them with a second set—who were only marginally better.

She was totally mishandled—which was bad enough for her, but cost McCain the election.

Worst. Campaign. Ever.


12 posted on 11/14/2009 1:53:10 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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"Schmidt started in again, telling Randy what an awful pick I was - the "postpartum" problems, the wardrobe "scandal," "legal exposure" for Todd on Troopergate, whatever he meant by that," Palin writes according to the published excerpts.

I.E. When the McCain/Palin campaign started falling behind, Schmidt started blaming it all on EVERYTHING ELSE, but himself.

13 posted on 11/14/2009 1:53:25 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: rabscuttle385

Conservative ought rise up and black list Steve Schmindt, Nicole Wallace, Mark Salter, and John Weaver. If these people run the GOP, then RINO Dede of NY-23 will the preferred candidates.


14 posted on 11/14/2009 1:53:38 PM PST by yongin
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To: rabscuttle385

Steve Schmidt is an a-hole and if I recall correctly, it was a McCain staffer who was the moron put that hoax Sarkozy call through to Sarah.

That guy should have been fired on the spot for not realizing that it was not actually Sarkozy on the phone.


15 posted on 11/14/2009 1:54:49 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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Boy, the comments at the source link are ssssmokin’. Whoo.

Of course, they hate her because they fear her.


16 posted on 11/14/2009 1:54:59 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: rabscuttle385

They were just salivating for more Sarah bashing. Let the games begin.


17 posted on 11/14/2009 1:55:12 PM PST by marstegreg
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To: rabscuttle385

Schmidt will never work on another GOP candidate again. What a complete jerk and a wuss. He’s been spreading lies for a year and now he whines?

Pray for America and Gov Palin


18 posted on 11/14/2009 1:56:11 PM PST by bray (America Gu Bra)
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To: SolidWood

Lex Luthor could lose a few pounds, himself...


19 posted on 11/14/2009 1:57:32 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

Comments at the CNN link are no different than DU.


20 posted on 11/14/2009 1:57:36 PM PST by yongin
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