“Are you saying he’s a pile of Schmidt? Who in the Republican Party would hire and pay this guy? I saw him on one of the taped Election Night News shows on YouTube. He is supposed to be some Republican “elder” and election expert - from his continual comments and early evening prognostications, it was evident that he was neither.”
Please refer to Schmidt’s Wikipedia entry to review his list of election losses. His only “successes” were riding Rove’s coattails for W’s re-election and Schwarzenegger’s re-election for his failed second term.
I have watched most of the YouTube copies of the Election Night programming(PBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, BBC, Bloomberg)which is most enjoyable and informative. The Republican commentators are almost invariably more acid and negative on their comments on Trump, his campaign and his chances for election than their Demo operatives, some of whom, like Joe Trippi, are actually interesting and prescient. Instead, the “Republicans” are David Brooks (NYT resident “conservative”); Romney campaign manager Stuart Stevens; this Pile of Schmidt; Mike Murphy, who seems to lose almost every recent election and charges a fortune to do it; some woman named Natalie Wallace who worked for McCain and Bush and who is about as vicious a Trump hater as I’ve seen; Ana Navarro (held some minor position for Jeb); Karl Rove. While Rove moderated his comments, the others are in pig heaven at the beginning of the evening, looking forward to an electoral blowout for Clinton. They start to panic about 9:30 when they realize Florida ain’t going to her, then they are in stunned shock about 11 pm when it is evident Trump has won; when the final delayed projections of him as the winner come in at about 2:40 am, they are full of bile, vitriol and damnation. Anyone who ever hires any of this bunch as “consultants’ in a Republican race again should have their heads examined or pulled out of some body orifice.