The same McCain advisor who has said that Sarah Palin would be a "catastrophe" for the GOP were she to become its 2012 presidential candidate, now says that she was an asset to the Arizona Senator's 2008 run for the White House.
Speaking at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Steve Schmidt also defended the decision to bring the former Alaska governor on board as McCain's running mate.
The Associated Press reports that Schmidt, who was chief strategist for McCain's presidential campaign, did not elaborate on his previous criticism of Palin, but volunteered that in his opinion, Palin has "great talents" for politics.
So Steve, please explain how the 2008 vice presidential candidate was helpful to McCain's '08 campaign, but would be a "catastrophe" at the top of the GOP ticket in 2012? You appear to be starting to backpedal a bit, Sparky. Is that fear we see in those beady little eyes? The impending release of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue memoir seems to have stirred your nest of weasels.
Good. Those critters are fun to watch when they squirm.
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- JP
I agree.
ReplyDeleteRecanting his earlier statement about Gov. Palin should be mandatory.
Increasingly, this guy is irrelevant and obsolete as a political analyst.
Of course she was an asset. Who else would have been able to drag tired old war hero McCain across the finish line with a respectable showing? Every day Sarah went out there on the campaign trail and did EXACTLY what a firstrate VP pick is SUPPOSED to do: talk up their candidate, and attack the opponent.
ReplyDeleteSarah was possibly the best VP pick in history judged on her job performance. The only problem? She's not VP material. She's a star who takes a backseat to NO ONE. In every way she completely outshone, outclassed, outdrew, and overshadowed the presidential candidate. The press went after her in ways unimaginable to any prior VP candidate. Quick, does anyone remember Dan Rather's revealing interview with Jack Kemp where he was asked what he reads? No? Oh, right ...
So, maybe when Schmidt says Sarah would be a catastrophe at the top of the GOP ticket in 2012, he means a castastrophe for anyone getting in her way. She's already beaten John McCain, something Romney and Huckabee can't say.
It's called being a coward who speaks to his audience.
ReplyDeleteWasn't the first quote in DC answering David Gregory, leftist PDSer extraordiaire?
Wasn't this second quote in Arkansas, red state?
But is that Clinton School of PS THE Clinton?
Hmmm, I've yet to hear either Clinton bash Palin. Has anyone else?
The guy was McCain's chief strategist, and lost the election for a WAR HERO against a radical ex-drug user who wouldn't release his birth certificate or college transcripts.
ReplyDeleteSo why does anything he says mean anything? The guy has a vested interest in blaming other people - a Democratic platform quality, to be sure.