Posted on 01/13/2010 3:19:57 AM PST by militanttoby
Steve Schmidt spent ten weeks building Sarah Palin up and the two of them have spent a good part of the last 14 months tearing each other down.
A losing campaign always brings out the knives, but usually they are wielded in the shadows. The pure spectacle of a former campaign strategist going on national television to trash the candidate whose image he once stage-managed – as Schmidt did Sunday on “60 Minutes” - is virtually unprecedented.
Among Washington operatives the response to Schmidt ranges from quiet admiration for telling uncomfortable truths to mystification that he and Palin would belabor internal disputes that in an earlier era of politics would have stayed behind closed doors.
At least a half-dozen Republican operatives declined to discuss the matter, instead voicing the plaintive hope the dispute will simply go away. But one Democrat praised Schmidt’s willingness to take a stand, even at the risk of hurting his livelihood as a California political consultant.
“I don’t think he has anything to gain from it. It’s not going to get Schmidt a whole lot of clients in Republican Party and he’s not selling a book. So it just may be that he is telling the truth,” said Paul Begala, a former Clinton White House adviser.
Schmidt’s comments on “60 Minutes” with the authors of “Game Change,” were somewhat measured. He praised Palin for her convention speech and debate performance. But he also said there were “numerous instances” when Palin said things that weren’t correct and “that opened the door to criticism that she was being untruthful and inaccurate. And I think that that is something that continues to this day.”
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Who (cares)?
Seems to me that he put himself out of the candidate handling business. What candidate would possibly want to work with him knowing that he is liable to later dish dirt?
What is her email? I wanted to send Cummings an email regarding Cummings lie that Cummings never apologized for, blaming Palin for the so-called $150k “shopping spree”. It was lie that the NY Times and Boston Globe later exonerated Palin on. They all knew it was lie at the time, but Palin couldn’t prove that the media was in on the lie until the designer vouched for Palin not being apart of the clothing purchase.
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