This outpouring of back-stabbing vindictiveness and self-seeking puts me in mind of the 2008 McCain campaign, when strategists Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace leaked disparaging material about their vice presidential candidate even before Election Day.
The tell-all mentality became more pronounced as soon as Sarah Palin was back in Alaska. Schmidt and Wallace became popular with the liberal press because they went out of their way to belittle and criticize their boss’ choice of running mate behind his back. What courage.
Schmidt’s prize was an appointment as a MSNBC contributor and a ticket to the premiere of Game Change.
Wallace got to listen to Whoopi Goldberg for an hour five days a week—more punishment than reward if you ask me. She has since been fired.
Schmidt and Wallace were “run” like CIA assets by their handlers and former bosses in the lame duck Bush White House during the ‘08 Palin/McCain campaign. Schmidt and Wallace went south on Palin after McCain failed to pick Mitt for VP and hold to a one term only pledge (due to his age) — supposedly Mitt would have picked Jeb for his VP in ‘12.
Schmidt and Wallace are long time Jeb and W cronies; same with Nicolle’s husband Mark Wallace.
Schmidt and Wallace were told to sabotage Palin in 2008 before election day because the Bush White House could not afford to have an outsider like Palin disrupt their Jeb ‘16 plans.
Schmidt’s “Prize” was not a TICKET to Game Change, Schmidt and Wallace WROTE the script to Game Change and were its main sources.
The same Bush Elites who are trying to drown Trump were doing the same thing when Jeb was threatened by Palin in 08.
Same vitriol. Same Uniparty attacks and lies. But make no mistake, Schimdt and Wallace are long time Bushies, who sabotaged Palin at the bidding of Rove and the Bush White House.
The Bush White House backed OBAMA over McCain and Palin that year, too, by proffering the Fed chairman and top White House aides to prep Obama on financial matters before the election and after the September 11 2008 meltdown.
Schmidt worked for Rove on the 04 Bush Cheney campaign.
Nicolle Wallace was Jeb’s press secretary before Bush V. Gore 2000.
I laughed when I read those paragraphs. Because that is the exact same tactic McCain used to Smear the other 4 participants in the Keating 5 Scandal.
He was the source for most of the Washington Press stories on the issue, to save his sorry crooked ass.