Bernie Quigley has a warning for the Republican Party establishment:
The Republicans need to learn one thing before February. If they keep sending out their longtime apparatchik Steve Schmidt as designated Single Combat Warrior against Sarah Palin, they will lose.Excellent advice. If the GOP is smart, it will heed it. The only problem is the party establishment has shown precious few signs recently that it is smart.
His recent comments on “60 Minutes” about Palin’s statement that her selection as John McCain’s VP was part of “God’s plan” was — nudge, nudge — pneumonic scorn that, in the context of the other reports edited by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, quite obviously intended to caricature Palin’s simple and sincere expression of Christian faith to an “upscale” secular audience.
It does, in turn, caricature the same simple (in the Tolstoyan sense) Christian faith of the tens and hundreds of millions of Americans in the heartland with similar devotion. This comment couldn’t have been more poorly timed, as other Christian conservatives rose to defend Brit Hume’s recent advice to Tiger Woods even on the op-ed pages of The New York Times.
Read Quigley's excellent op-ed in its entirety here.
- JP
Schmidt is only sliting his own political throat with every negative word he utters against Palin. For a person who is suppose to be bright enough to run a presidential campaign, he is one stupid person. Whoever Schmidt hooks up with in 2012, that candidate will be seen as TOXIC!! By attacking Palin, Schmidt is attacking grassroot conservatives. It would be political suicide for any serious person with 2012 presidential aspirations to hire on Schmidt.
ReplyDelete"Christianity is part of the common law" - James Wilson
ReplyDeleteFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light -Helen Keller
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.” - George Washington
What candidate in their right mind would give Schmidt a job, knowing that he could very well turn around and spread all kinds of gossip about them afterwards. There has to be some sort of trust between a candidate and their staff, and Schmidt shows that he is not to be trusted, by anyone.
ReplyDeleteAs for the GOP, I get the feeling that for most of those in the leadership they are perfectly satisfied with being in the minority as long as they are invited to the right cocktail parties. Whatelse can explain Michael Steele's comment the other day that the gop won't win this year, and if they do they won't be ready.
That is why there is so much venom directed at Sarah Palin, she wants to do the hard work that would get the gop back in the game, and the leaders would rather sit on the sidelines sipping cocktails.
Schmidt has become the Republican establishment's Levi Johnston. I wouldn't be surprised if Playgirl offers Schmidt a photo shoot next month.
ReplyDeleteHow can anybody ever trust Schmidt again? He’s lying, but even if what he says was true, what candidate would hire somebody that may go blab personal details after the election was over?
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