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Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he’s leaving his party
MSN News ^ | June 20, 2018 | Felicia Sonmez

Posted on 06/20/2018 9:28:42 AM PDT by detective

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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.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: gop; saboteur; schmidt
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To: detective

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


61 posted on 06/20/2018 10:14:21 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: detective

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


62 posted on 06/20/2018 10:20:58 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: detective

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


63 posted on 06/20/2018 10:28:09 AM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: detective
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.

64 posted on 06/20/2018 10:28:45 AM PDT by wbill
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To: detective

A back-stabbing loser departing is a net gain.


65 posted on 06/20/2018 10:34:09 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: RoadieFan

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


66 posted on 06/20/2018 10:35:12 AM PDT by gbscott
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To: RoadieFan

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


67 posted on 06/20/2018 10:38:51 AM PDT by gbscott
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To: detective

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


68 posted on 06/20/2018 10:49:16 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: detective

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


69 posted on 06/20/2018 10:52:32 AM PDT by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: detective

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

That says it all right there.


70 posted on 06/20/2018 11:17:21 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: detective

Maybe Plump Karl Rove will join him finally...


71 posted on 06/20/2018 11:17:56 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: detective
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.
72 posted on 06/20/2018 12:37:16 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: detective

He has been Democrat behind the voting curtain for years.


73 posted on 06/20/2018 1:41:08 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: detective; GOPJ; goldstategop; AuH2ORepublican; SJackson; Yaelle; ExTexasRedhead; ...
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!

74 posted on 06/20/2018 2:40:48 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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Probably leaving the country. He’ll be married to a 12 year old boy in Thailand this time next week.


75 posted on 06/20/2018 2:42:25 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: justiceseeker93
That Schmitty;-}
76 posted on 06/20/2018 2:44:55 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: detective

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


77 posted on 06/20/2018 2:45:24 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: justiceseeker93

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


78 posted on 06/20/2018 2:54:34 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: detective

Do let tbe door hit you on the way out.

Consider it a well-deserved spanking.


79 posted on 06/20/2018 5:05:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: justiceseeker93; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; Arthur Wildfire! March; LS; ...

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


80 posted on 06/20/2018 9:15:42 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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