Posted on 03/18/2012 2:32:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
From watching “Game Change,” this much is clear: (1) Steve Schmidt is an absolutely brilliant campaign strategist who gave Sen. John McCain the idea to put “Country First” (it had never occurred to the war hero); and (2) Nicolle Wallace is a demure, yet quietly ingenious, media savant who can handle any crisis.
Oh, but wait: Mr. Schmidt ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of presidential elections, losing to a first-term senator from Illinois with no experience governing anything, and Ms. Wallace let the entire message of the McCain campaign be overrun by — “Saturday Night Live”?
I spent a year of my life on the McCain campaign, and I can tell you this: Nuh uh. “Game Change” is a ridiculous farce of a movie — even more absurd as a chronicle of a major historical event — that appears to have been written mostly by Mr. Schmidt and Ms. Wallace, two players who have major axes to grind with the higher-ups of the McCain campaign.
Mr. Schmidt was a longtime loser when he entered the McCain campaign, losing race after race — he served as communications director for Lamar (Lamar!) Alexander’s pitiful run for president: Need we say more?
Ms. Wallace took a similar path, starting out in California politics, then switching to Florida. Like Mr. Schmidt, she worked in the George W. Bush White House before joining the McCain campaign. I was covering the White House at the same time; she wasn’t much of a force there, either.
Privately, she got crosswise with Sarah Palin almost immediately after joining the campaign, although publicly, she was all aboard. What’s Mrs. Palin like on the trail?: “She works harder than anyone I’ve known in politics,” Ms. Wallace said....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
It was all downhill after the late September financial collapse. Up to that point, McClain-Palin were still ahead in many polls.
did anyone ever expect it to be anything BUT a leftwing hit job full of lies?
The same two people who destroyed the McCain-Palin campaign are the first to cast blame on others.
Why is anyone surprised?
BTW, why is that superannuated and unskilled jet jockey still on my TV?
The more likely story: The Dems jumped Sarah, and Schmidt and the stupid girl-what's-er-name decided to jump on with them, as did our beloved candidate, McAnus Magnus. Do these people actually expect ME to believe that there is someone out there dumber than Joe "Plugs" Biden? Or McAnus?
BTW, why is that superannuated and unskilled jet jockey still on my TV?
The more likely story: The Dems jumped Sarah, and Schmidt and the stupid girl-what's-er-name decided to jump on with them, as did our beloved candidate, McAnus Magnus. Do these people actually expect ME to believe that there is someone out there dumber than Joe "Plugs" Biden? Or McAnus?
Not to be obscure here, but you’re about to find out her true power.
You’ll notice that neither has been hired by a republican to work on their campaign since the 2008 debacle.
Schmitt went so far as to “apologize to the country” on PMSNBC the other day for being responsible for suggesting Sarah Palin to McCain, a move that was obviously intended to endear himself to potential democrat clients and news operations looking to hire.
“Each campaign that I have ever run in these 20 years of elective office have been kind of unconventional, right, Todd?” Palin told reporters at the Iowa state fair. “We’ve always been outspent, two-to-one, five-to-one, ten-to-one. Never won any polls heading into election night. But usually won the election. So it would be unconventional and very grass roots.”
“And I wouldn’t be out there looking for hires out of that political bubble that seemed to result in the same old ideas, the same old talking points, the things that Americans get so sick and tired of hearing and kind of suffering through,” she added. “We want new energy, we want conviction and passion and candidness.” ~Governor Sarah Palin, August 2011.
“And a big part of the problem was certainly McCain’s handlers. But he has to take responsibility for them.”
His wife, daughter, and ego won’t let him.
yes, they will get jobs with Big Media...but their days of influence with the Republican Party are over.
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