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.”

[Harpotoo]

...Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain ... Nuff said:-)

[WyCoKsRepublican]

Take “Crypt Keeper” McCain with you as well. And don’t let the door hit ya’ where the good Lord split ya’

[DarthVader]

He was never with us to begin with. Good riddance to this piece of garbage.

[wbill]

Winning. I don't get tired of it.

President Trump - I never get tired of typing that, either - has a knack for making leftists expose themselves. Here's one more that was part of the whole rotten GOP mess that's been festering for more than a couple of decades.

This guy is no more Republican than Hillary Clinton, though I'm sure that both of them would pose as Republican, so long as it furthered their own personal interests.

[Billthedrill]

A back-stabbing loser departing is a net gain.

[gbscott]

Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out!

[gbscott]

Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out!

[SoFloFreeper]

Winning. Can he promise to OPENLY CAMPAIGN *for* Democrats? Please? That would make it even better!!

[jimfree]

He really quit the GOP much earlier, sometime before he joined the John McCain campaign.

[lucky american]

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain

That says it all right there.

[ManHunter]

Maybe Plump Karl Rove will join him finally...

[blueplum]

a sr. advisor to McCain, and McCain was intimately involved with the Steele dossier, and met with the Russian gal before she met with Trump jr. And he's resigning from the party? That doesn't make him immune to subpoenas.

[SMGFan]

He has been Democrat behind the voting curtain for years.

[justiceseeker93]

Schmidt's McCain campaign strategy was way too wussy. He can by blamed (not by himself, of course) for allowing the constitutionally unqualified Obama to seize the presidency in 2008. Now he not only leaves the GOP, but is openly rooting for a 'Rat takeover of Congress this year. I think it may have something to do with the tension between Trump and McCain in the last election cycle.

Good bye, Schmitty, and don't let the door hit you on the way out!

[RinaseaofDs]

Probably leaving the country. He’ll be married to a 12 year old boy in Thailand this time next week.

[Eleutheria5]

That Schmitty;-}

[DouglasKC]

It’s nice to see that he’s given up his spy role as a Republican.

[Ann Archy]

He;s got a LESBIAN SISTER that DESPISES TRUMP!!!! Steve is a LOSER!

[YogicCowboy]

Do let tbe door hit you on the way out.

Consider it a well-deserved spanking.

[Impy]

Great news, a boil just got lanced off the ass of the party.