McCain Strategist Steve Schmidt Trashes Palin in "60 Minutes" Interview; Defends Couric - Video

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | January 11, 2010 | Brian

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is video of former McCain Campaign Chief Strategist Steve Schmidt on "60 Minutes" last night, where he claims McCain decided to choose Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate at the last minute as a replacement for preferred choice Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Schmidt says the decision was made late Sunday night just before the beginning of the Republican National Convention in 2008 as they sat around a table and ate "deep fried burritos."

Schmidt essentially trashes Palin in the interview, saying she knew little about Foreign Policy and other issues. He did say she was a "quick study." He claims Palin did poorly in the Katie Couric interview because she "did not prepare for it." Schmidt actually defended Couric, saying he did not feel Couric "asked a single unfair question" in the interview. . . . . (VIDEO)

[TADSLOS]

Had McCain chosen Lieberman or any other ‘rat, I flat-out would not have voted for him. I really thought that he was going to pick Lieberman.

He would have, had Charlie Black not spelled out the dire situation McCain's campaign was in to convince him to him choose Palin.

Palin was always McCain's cynical choice to remain viable in the race. He could give a rat's ass about her otherwise, and he allowed his staff of RINO lobbyists to disrespect her at every turn.

[Elsie]

He claims Palin did poorly in the Katie Couric interview because she "did not prepare for it."

Next time she'll HAVE a teleprompter!