Or?
Posted on 08/27/2014 4:20:36 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Texas Governor Rick Perry has reportedly aligned himself with two of the most infamous Republican establishment operatives known for trashing conservatives.
Perry is working with Henry Barbour, whom conservatives want the Republican National Committee to censure for his group's smearing of conservatives in the Mississippi Senate runoff, and Steve Schmidt, who has elevated his profile by maligning conservatives, especially former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Politico's Maggie Haberman reported on Tuesday that Schmidt, the infamous hack from Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign whose gamble to go "all-in" and suspend the campaign during the financial crisis turned up snake eyes, "has joined the team" helping Perry "with the strategy around his indictment." After McCain's poll numbers plummeted after Schmidt's reckless gamble, Schmidt attempted to re-write history and try to smear former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the mainstream press and blame the 2008 loss on her.
Though that gambit did not work, Schmidt did endear himself to the permanent political class and media, and he soon joined the likes of Meghan McCain in gleefully bashing conservatives on mainstream and even liberal outlets like MSNBC. He also hid in the woods before inviting the New York Times to find him. Conservative scholar and talk radio host Mark Levin simply wondered, "Why would Perry hire this conservative-attacker and Palin-hater?"
If policy is personnel, as Reagan said and those like Morton Blackwell always emphasize, Perry should be concerned. As Breitbart News reported, top conservatives have called on the Republican National Committee to censure Barbour for his "role in racially incendiary appeals to Democratic voters that voting for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) was a means of helping stop the Tea Party."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Rick Perry’s downward spiral begins. His indictment was his high water mark.
Perry never misses an opportunity to disappoint.
His downward spiral began when he stopped wearing western boots (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/us/rick-perry-gives-up-his-cowboy-boots.html) and started wearing those ridiculous thick framed glasses that all the so-called hipsters and cool people seem to be wearing these days. That says to me that he is not a leader, but a follower; more concerned about getting people to like him for his image than for his message.
He started wearing those glasses because he wanted everyone to think he was Barry Goldwater’s illegitimate son.
Don’t care if Schmidt was a blue ribbon conservative, the guy’s toxic and untrustworthy.
Steve Schmidt - like the guy in Animal House…”fat, drunk and stupid”
ot Justin Timberlake’s brother.
Leaders lead and set the trend; everyone else follows the leader. Do we want a follower or a leader?
I guess if Nicole Wallace wasn’t hired by The View, he’d have hired her too.
Talk about tone deafness.
It’s because Rick Perry is NOT a conservative. He has some leanings toward conservatism, and he has some good instincts, but he doesn’t know why. He cannot articulate the conservative ideology, and will always disappoint as a result. Hiring these two hacks is just more proof. He’s better than Romney or Jeb, but that’s about it.
Or?
There isn't a perfect candidate but Perry sure beats Hillary all to hell.
Or, more likely as with most people, as he aged his vision deteriorated and glasses solve the vision problem
Go Rick!!
Seems like Breitbart should confirm first rather than write “reportedly aligned”.
Anybody that would hire Steve Schmidt is a fool.
Yes.
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