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Romney-ites attack Palin--anonymously, as is their wont TIME’s Mark Halperin claims that some unnamed Romney staffers goofed on Sarah Palin. Was one of them ex-McCain head, Steve Schmidt? Is Schmidt auditioning for a job in 2012? Does the Pope wear a beanie? ROMNEY’S CUTE ATTACKS CONTINUE IT’S ALWAYS AN “UNNAMED AIDE” WHEN ROMNEY ATTACKS PALIN Is Uber-RINO political operative, Steve Schmidt, working undercover for the Romney campaign these days? Who else but former sour grapes-munching McCain staff losers–quite a few who were swooped up by Mittsy-boy Romney–would have dreamed up the following? From Beyond Palin: Assessing the Rest of the...

Like it or not, the 2012 presidential campaign season is already underway. Right now, we're in the nascent stage of the cycle where folks are asking: Will he/she run? A new 8,300-word New Yorker profile asks that question of Mike Huckabee. Among the nuggets in the piece (some of which we had already heard): -- Huckabee is now registered to vote in Florida, not his native Arkansas -- He has gained weight since his '08 campaign days, though he doesn't weigh the 300-odd pounds he once weighed -- Former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt says some VERY nice things about...

According to a top strategist in the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, Sarah Palin believed that the decision to pick her as the Arizona Republican’s running mate was actually made by Almighty God. Translated into the logic of an Associated Press report, this political theology sounded like this. “In an interview with the CBS news magazine ‘60 Minutes,’ Steve Schmidt described Palin as ‘very calm — nonplused’ after McCain met with her at his Arizona ranch just before putting her on the Republican ticket. ... Schmidt said he asked Palin about her serenity in the face of becoming ‘one...

In a roundtable discussion with the Post's Anne Kornblut, author of 'Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and what it will take for a woman to win, former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers and syndicated newspaper columnist Kathleen Parker discuss their reactions to the selection of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee...

The Republicans need to learn one thing before February. If they keep sending out their longtime apparatchik Steve Schmidt as designated Single Combat Warrior against Sarah Palin, they will lose. His recent comments on “60 Minutes” about Palin’s statement that her selection as John McCain’s VP was part of “God’s plan” was — nudge, nudge — pneumonic scorn that, in the context of the other reports edited by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, quite obviously intended to caricature Palin’s simple and sincere expression of Christian faith to an “upscale” secular audience. It does, in turn, caricature the same simple (in the Tolstoyan...

In one of the hilarious "Saturday Night Live" send-ups of Sarah Palin, Tina Fey -- playing the then-vice presidential candidate -- says, "If I'm not going to the White House I'm either running in four years or I'm going to be a white Oprah." (VIDEO AT LINK) With today's announcement that Palin has signed on with Fox News Channel, the former Alaska governor is potentially on her way to achieving that goal. As The Post's Howard Kurtz notes, Palin will be able to take her Facebook floggings of political opponents (and Levi Johnston) to a much bigger platform. Doing TV,...

WASHINGTON (CNN) - John McCain's former presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt is the latest McCain adviser to cry foul over accusations Sarah Palin has penned in her yet to be released memoir "Going Rogue." Excerpts obtained by The Huffington Post characterize Schmidt in an unfavorable light, particularly in reference to the prank phone call Palin received from someone pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "Right away, the phones started ringing," Palin writes. "One of the first calls was Schmidt, and the force of his screaming blew my hair back. 'How can anyone be so stupid?! Why would the president...