Posted on 11/17/2009 11:47:40 AM PST by Bob017
That is not a smear but a documented fact. Schmidt managed the McCain for President campaign. McCain, as you will recall, lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 election. Schmidt and his candidate bungled the campaign so badly that an untested, smooth-talking, America-bashing dilettante now occupies the White House as Commander-in-Chief.
Great job, guys!
Like a diligent virus, Schmidt refuses to leave the body politic. He is back again to call Sarah Palin's new book "total fiction." Interesting.
The list of Schmidt's disastrous campaign decisions is too long to completely document here. But we conservatives will long remember the propping up of the clown Huckabee to slam Mitt Romney during the primaries, and the idiotic suspension of the campaign - as if the outcome of the financial crisis hinged on McCain's famous "reach across" move on the Senate floor. Not until it was entirely too late did the McCain campaign attempt to tie candidate Obama to the likes of Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, let alone call into question Obama's mysterious background and activities as a student and so-called community organizer. Schmidt and McCain totally bought in to the multicultural hogwash that dictates any legitimate criticism of a person because they may happen to be sort of a minority totally out of bounds...
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"Steve Schmidt: LOSER!!!"
This jackass makes Schrum appear dignified.
Steve Schmidt = LOSER. Why anyone would want to listen to a proven loser is beyond me.
He helped sell aRnold to Kaleeforneeyaa too
And how did we come to have this candidate? The Primaries!
The liberals of Iowa are always first to vote, and then get to send their message. This past cycle, that message was Huckabee???
Then comes New Hampshire -- another purple-colored state in the upper reaches of New England where Republicans are essentially unrepresented in the House and only liberal Republicans need apply for slots to run in the Senate. A perfect place for a Maverick to make his stand.
Then we get to South Carolina -- the state that foisted Lindsay Grahamnesty onto the nation. I like South Carolina, but their primary was a mess with all the focus on the Dems and the racism of the Clintons (Hey Bill: how did you like being on the other end of that one?).
After that... well, you get the picture. It wasn't until around mid-March or April before you finally saw some Red States getting to weigh in and by then, our fate was sealed.
Allow me to offer a suggestion: let's promote regional primaries where the traditional Red States (based on their Congressional representation) go first and give principled Republicans the first opportunity to establish a front-runner. Just a thought.
How about football advice from Matt Millen? LOL!
I hope you're right, but Bob Shrum's record is 0-8, and he still appears on MSM shows.
+1 here.
You really can't even blame McCain. He wanted to be President. So do millions of other people.
Until the GOP scraps a primary system which allows the GOP's enemies to choose the GOP candidate, expect similar results.
1. No “open” primaries.
2. State delegate apportionments weighted according to % of GOP vote in the prior Presidential election.
3. Reddest states have their primaries first.
I agree with your three points. Will it happen?
Isn’t Schrum the guy who managed a whole group of losing campaigns. If so, excellent observation.
It’ll be tough but the hunger for victory (and its spoils) is a powerful motivating force.
that guy blew the campaign...who cares what he says.
Absolutely agree with you on Number 1 and that McCain was a lousy candidate, but not so sure about the others. Suspending the campaign and then not having anything to show for it made him look ridiculous, and his wanting to cancel the debate in the face of Obama’s stoicism/hiding-head-in-sand made him look weak. Don’t know what multicultural hogwash dictates either of you are referring to, but ducking any issue which can score you points is not a good strategy.
Steve Schmidt was also the #3 guy in the Bush 2004 campaign. He helped turn what should have been a runaway against a dilletante kook (Kerry) into an almost loss. He screwed up the response to the Bush National Guard/Rathergate fiasco that almost turned the election, and was only saved from that by Freepers, Swiftboaters, and some of Bush’s wingmen who came out to fix that problem.
Schmidt signifies what is wrong with politics these days - a professional political consultant class who have no real world experiences but who shape the campaigns and the candidates with their bad advice.
After two straight failures,Schmidt will be there again in 2012 taking big paychecks from some stupid GOP candidate whom he will lead into defeat.
That’s why I said “the impulse” to suspend the campaign was correct.
But, they blew the execution.
I believe he is 0 - 8 and was the one who said to Kerry.
May I be the first to call you Mr. President.
Oh, that makes my day.
***1. Using Huckabee to thwart Romney and, thus, win the nomination was smart politics.
2. The impulse to suspend the campaign over the financial crisis was the right one.
3. Had they not trod very gingerly regarding what “multicultural hogwash” dictates they would have been mercilessly savaged by the MSM.
This article is off base.
The campaign was fairly well run.
It was the disastrous candidate which could not be overcome.***
I agree about the candidate & arguably the financial crisis would have given Obama enough of a boost regardless.
In terms of the “treading gingerly” I disagree. Obama was clearly being marketed as someone who was a ‘post-racial’ figure which was at odds with his history. His close relationship with Wright, who gave an award to Louis Farrakhan in 2007, should have been used to question that phoney image. The MSM could hardly say that Wright or Farrakhan are innocuous figures or deny Obama’s longstanding involvement with the Church.
Of course, these things are always easier with hindsight.
Remember how the DBM went nuts over what turned out to be an unprovable claim that someone at a McCain/Palin rally yelled something incendiary about Obama?
They had McCain in a box on that issue. On balance, I think acceding to the DBM bullying was the right choice. The McCain campaign could not and would not have won that battle.
And the worst, the absolute worst, thing would have been for them to have started with an aggressive approach, only to back down under the resultant whithering counter attack from the Obama/DBM forces.
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