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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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1 posted on 09/29/2018 10:39:19 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

“You don’t bring me flowers, any more.”


2 posted on 09/29/2018 10:39:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ColdOne

Takes one to know one...


3 posted on 09/29/2018 10:39:53 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: ColdOne

Best thing Lindsey Graham has ever done. Left complains because Graham punched the school yard bullies.


4 posted on 09/29/2018 10:41:06 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump, Judge Kavanaugh and their families)
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To: ColdOne

This just in: John McCain is still dead."
5 posted on 09/29/2018 10:41:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ColdOne

GRAHAM has been set from whatever hold NO NAME MCCAIN had on him.


6 posted on 09/29/2018 10:42:05 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: ColdOne

Hopefully this will further cut Graham’s cords with the McCain’ism derangement.


7 posted on 09/29/2018 10:42:12 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: ColdOne

In other words, an uppity Republican dared to stand up against the mob, and must be destroyed.


8 posted on 09/29/2018 10:43:38 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: ColdOne

aRnie say HI and T’anks for all your help, Steve, in the 2003 Recall getting me elected.. you helped him pull the wool over folks eyes real good.


9 posted on 09/29/2018 10:43:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: ColdOne

LOL - Graham hasn’t changed, Steve Schmidt - you have - to keep getting checks from MSNBC. Changed your party affiliation, your views on all of the issues, etc. That’s being corrupted by ambition by very definition.


10 posted on 09/29/2018 10:43:38 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: ColdOne

I am 100% convinced that Schmidt’s job in 2008 was to throw the election for Obama.


11 posted on 09/29/2018 10:47:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ColdOne

Another rabid mccaniac dumps a pantload while staging a temper tantrum.

You lost. Get lost.


12 posted on 09/29/2018 10:48:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: dfwgator

LMAO!!

Steve Schmidt—one of Juan McCain’s obedient pit vipers. He’s REALLY upset that Lindsey Graham is now a real GOP hero.

Schmidt knows one reason Jeffy Flake is the most hated man in America—because Juan MCCain is DEAD, otherwise Jeffy would be the second most hated man in America. S*cks to be you, Stevie Boy!!


13 posted on 09/29/2018 10:49:06 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Republican Wildcat

LOL - Graham hasn’t changed, Steve Schmidt - you have - to keep getting checks from MSNBC. Changed your party affiliation, your views on all of the issues, etc. That’s being corrupted by ambition by very definition.
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hah right?
This man should not have one thread dedicated to his opinion.
He’s an empty suit sellout to the highest bidder. He looks like he’s a sleaze too.


14 posted on 09/29/2018 10:49:50 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: stars & stripes forever

Yep..the minute that casket went in the ground freed Linsey.


15 posted on 09/29/2018 10:50:10 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne
Should have thrown Schmidt into the same hole as McCain and covered both of them up.
 
16 posted on 09/29/2018 10:50:29 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: ColdOne

Mark my words: behind this are Bush operatives and neocons. Kristol has called for an investigation into Kavanaugh. This is coming from both parties.


17 posted on 09/29/2018 10:50:32 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: ColdOne

Isn’t Schmidt a YUGE looser, Big Time?


18 posted on 09/29/2018 10:52:08 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ColdOne

Was his Schmidt guy EVER a republican.

If he said he was...he was lying.


19 posted on 09/29/2018 10:52:26 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: miss marmelstein

I thought Kavanaugh was a deep imbed of the Bushes.


20 posted on 09/29/2018 10:53:29 AM PDT by Paladin2
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