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Steve Schmidt: Graham has been ‘corrupted by ambition’
thehill.com ^ | 9/28/18 | Morgan Gstalter

Posted on 09/29/2018 10:39:19 AM PDT by ColdOne

Steve Schmidt, the former adviser and strategist on former Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) 2008 presidential campaign, blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday night, saying he has become "corrupted by ambition."

Schmidt, a frequent critic of President Trump, publicly denounced the Republican Party in June and said he will begin voting for Democrats.

His broadside against Graham came a day after the senator ripped into Democrats for their handling of the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.

"He's corrupted by ambition, corrupted by politics," Schmidt told MSNBC's Brian Williams in an interview. "And it's tragic because this country could use a statesman right now and Lindsey Graham, for a long time, was on a path that he would be that person. That he

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To: dfwgator

Reminds me of Rob Reiner


41 posted on 09/29/2018 11:40:19 AM PDT by deek69
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To: ColdOne

No I believe whatever McCain was holding over Graham’s head died with him. Or Trump made it to away. Graham’s immediate 180 is too dramatic. Nobody changes that fast.


42 posted on 09/29/2018 11:41:32 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight yourr way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Linda is up for re-election in 2020, if Trump supporters a primary challenge Linda will go the way of Snowflake and Corkhole. This is why he is acting like a conservative Republican again and don’t get me wrong what he said at the hearing needed to be done!!! But I don’t trust him anymore than I did McInsane.

As for Schmidt he’s a perpetual and professional NeverTrumper loser like the rest of the snobby NeverTrumper party pukes. I detest them more than the Democrats.


43 posted on 09/29/2018 11:42:23 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: ColdOne

Maybe Lindsey Gramham finally woke up.


44 posted on 09/29/2018 11:42:24 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: ColdOne

Give Lindsey Graham another point in his journey to redemption.


45 posted on 09/29/2018 11:44:15 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: ColdOne

Regardless of Lindsey Graham’s motive for waking up… he was most definitely and without question the man of the hour for the Judge Kavanaugh hearings… and for that we can be very thankful

GOD bless our REPUBLIC!


46 posted on 09/29/2018 11:45:28 AM PDT by RevelationDavid (Jesus First, no matter the cost.)
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To: ColdOne

Everyone notices a different Graham since the sage of AZ went room temperature.


47 posted on 09/29/2018 11:46:59 AM PDT by lurk
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To: ColdOne

Steve Schmidt is the glob of scum who backstabbed Sarah Palin when she was whatzizname’s VP Candidate, leaked false accusations about her to the media, etc. Payday is coming Schmidt, when the Supreme Judge settles with YOU.


48 posted on 09/29/2018 11:49:38 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: ColdOne
Schmidt takes it up the poop-chute too, and is pizzed at having been out-manned by little Lindsey.

Hell hath no fury like a faggot burned.

49 posted on 09/29/2018 11:50:29 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Tucker39

I’ve often wondered if Schmidt chose Palin, knowing that it would drive the Hillary voters who were prepared to vote for McCain over Obama, scurrying back to vote for Obama?


50 posted on 09/29/2018 11:51:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ColdOne

Graham has been released from McCain’s control. Makes on wonder why that control?


51 posted on 09/29/2018 12:09:02 PM PDT by arthurus (kl)
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To: madison10

Schmidts resume is pretty special, running McLame’s campaign to lose to Obama!

I’m really glad to see Graham show some balls, actually. Let Schmidt vote for Dems, who cares?


52 posted on 09/29/2018 12:46:06 PM PDT by allwrong57
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To: dfwgator

He might have picked her. All I know for sure is when the whole McCain campaign staff turned on her and started leaking lies about her, McCain like the vermin that he was, turned his back and left her twisting in the wind, taking smears and arrows from both his staff and the ‘Rats.


53 posted on 09/29/2018 1:05:28 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: dfwgator

It was Charlie Black, McCain’s chief campaign strategist, who floated Palin’s name to McCain.


54 posted on 09/29/2018 1:11:28 PM PDT by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: ColdOne

Steve Schmidt has been corrupted by money.

Take the beam out of your eye Stevie.

5.56mm


55 posted on 09/29/2018 1:13:50 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: ColdOne

Who gives a crap what this guy has to say. He’s obviously always been a Democrat (probably voted Democrat anyway) and was in the employee of a Democrat at heart (McCain) if not in name. People like him are pure scum.


56 posted on 09/29/2018 2:16:32 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: Paladin2

Both can be true. Power hunger breeds envy and conflict, especially among leftists. (And Kristol, son of an unrepentant Trotskyist, is emphatically a leftist.)

The Trotskyist (Neocon) Republicans and Marxist Democrats are competitors, not opponents. They are all anti-American globalists on a practical level.

Hence no repeal of Obamacare.

Hence no funding for the Wall.


57 posted on 09/29/2018 4:56:22 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: ColdOne

What havevSchmidt, and his sidekick, Nicolle Wallace, been corrupted by?


58 posted on 09/29/2018 5:01:51 PM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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