Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party

MSN News ^ | June 20, 2018 | Felicia Sonmez

[detective]

Shortened title.

Full title: ‘Today I renounce my membership’: Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), announced early Wednesday that he is leaving the Republican Party, which he decried as “fully the party of Trump” and “a danger to our democracy and values.”

In early-morning tweets, Schmidt, a vocal Trump critic, urged voters to elect Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections and harshly criticized the administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S. border, describing the government-run detention centers as “internment camps for babies.”

“29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life,” Schmidt wrote. “Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.”

[Architect of Avalon]

Steve Schmidt, like John McCain, was always a Democrat.

[JBW1949]

LOL...Yeah, riiiiight....

[LRoggy]

Heck, Sarah Palin has twice the ‘cojonies’ Schmidt has and she doesn’t have them . . .

[Slyfox]

I was in California at a hotel making my way to my room and I passed through the area where they have a lot of meeting rooms.

I overheard some guy say what time McCain was showing up for the con fab that evening.

I remember being really non-plussed about the possibility of seeing John McCain while he was running for president when I could have gotten an up close view.

[griswold3]

Values of the democratic party are NOT American Values that uphold the US Constitution.
Past Time for the interloper to exit.

[RatRipper]

More swamp sludge gets flushed. This is a good thing.

Amen to that. More attrition in the Pond Scum wing of the GOP. Maybe the Bush family and Mitt Romney will be next.

[NorthMountain]

“a danger to our democracy and values.”

America is a Republic, you tw@t ... and your diseased socialist values are un-American.

[texas_mrs]

urged voters to elect Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections

Thus proving what we've said about the Rinos all along.

[Antoninus]

One less mole. Thank God.

That said, isn't this like the fifth time he's left the party?

[NormsRevenge]

His true colours came out in 2003 when he backed a pseudoRepellican called aRnie. We will be paying for that for years as it was a final blow to the CAGOP which had become a 3rd class political org. and lost its way and any semblance of leadership or message.

[rockinqsranch]

Good riddance. Never thought the guy was a Republican other than maybe INO.

[kenmcg]

The GOP looks a little better today. Maybe he can talk his former boss (McCain) into leaving the party. Actually it’s more like a cesspool than a swamp.

[NorthMountain]

LOL! Is that a leftover from Trump’s WWE days?

[Huskrrrr]

Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.)”

Stopped reading.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I could swear this is not the first time he’s done this . . .

[KC_Conspirator]

GTFO Schmidt.

He is a backstabbing, rip off artist.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Please take McNuts with you!

[Baldwin77]

Buh Bye.

[jimmygrace]

Buh-bye!

[Williams]

Never heard of him and he can take the illegals with him.