Posted on 04/24/2010 3:16:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I had never met Steve Schmidt and only knew him through the media. When I found myself seated at the former McCain campaign manager's table at a Washington dinner hosted by The Week magazine, it was like a flashback to the 2008 campaign. Schmidt is instantly recognizable with his trademark shaved head, his bulldog physique, and the restless intensity that marks him as a political operative of the first order.
He had spent 10 weeks trying to mold Sarah Palin into a plausible national candidate, and when the campaign ended, he assessed her shortcomings, as she did his, in what turned into a volley of unusually blunt words. "You paid a price for all that candor," I suggested across the table. "Not really," he scoffed with a laugh, explaining that he lives and works in northern California, which offers geographic and cultural distance from the battles that animate Washington politics.
He was in town Tuesday evening to give his perspective on a bipartisan panel titled "Battle for the Soul of a Party," which is what passes for entertainment at ground zero of the partisan divide. Before he took the stage, he said his problem with Palin had to do with her saying things that are untrue, which caused problems for the campaign. It's a practice you could say she has since perfected with the "death panels" of last summer, and continues today with an assertion made in Louisville, Ky., last week that the Founding Fathers really didn't want separation of church and state.
Schmidt gives Palin her due as a political talent. He has said that without her on the ticket, McCain's margin of defeat would have been even greater.(continued)
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Eleanor Clift?
Is that nasty old Clinton Knee Pad Ho wanna-be still writing?
Piece of Schmidt PING!
I cast my lot w palin over the rino mccains grahams snowes romneys every day of the week.
Steve Schmidt is also connected to the Failed Governor Shriver of California. Failure follows this RINO, WHy he still has a Job is beyond me, every candidate he has ever worked for turned out to ba a FAILURE and a RINO, purge him from politics forever.
The only job Schmidt is qualified to do is work at McDonalds and ask “Do you want fries with that?”
Apparently its common knowldge that Slick did herearly in her career. She has been his pet ever since.I bet he beat her around some.She strikes me as a bit of a masochist.
“he said his problem with Palin had to do with her saying things that are untrue”
Obviously the boy is as demented as he looks. Sounds like the perfect RINO campaign manager.
You know, the way this stuff just doesn’t end, it seems to me that President Sarah Palin is a go. I’m wondering if Cheney would help her out, or Petraeus?
McCain’s was the worst. Campaign. Ever.
Steve Schmidt’s handling of it made Bob Dole look like a genius.
I’m going to pull a Laz and not read Elea-manure’s column.
I’ll just comment that she is a jealous, ugly and nasty bitch.
“Before he took the stage, he said his problem with Palin had to do with her saying things that are untrue, which caused problems for the campaign. It’s a practice you could say she has since perfected with the “death panels” of last summer, and continues today with an assertion made in Louisville, Ky., last week that the Founding Fathers really didn’t want separation of church and state.”
This right here tells me he is a F’in idiot. He made because Sarah is better than him at getting the message out. Sarah know hardball politics where as Schmidt only know cottonball politics.
Steve, ol' buddy, ol' pal, it depends on whether you want to win short-term political points...or win in the arena of ideas.
Sixty Republican compromisers would merely serve as the foil for forty committed liberal Democrats -- a recipe for loss long-term. Thirty strong conservatives are a base that you can build from.
This is an ideological struggle, not an electoral skirmish.
But, Steve, you are a "political operative of the first order" -- so you wouldn't understand that. You ninny.
She is a nasty crone. Eleonor Clift has no intellignece whatever and just reads the DNC talking points wherever she goes.
Clift should jump off cliff and take Schmidt with her.
Who is the more dense? Schmidt? Or Clift?
Schmidt will be the first Republican against the wall after the revolution.
I know—for instance—what was untruthful about calling death panels, DEATH PANELS?
Elea-manure never has a nice day.
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