Steve Schmidt is one of the most eloquent voices of the indignant right!

[Heartstrings]

[Guilded Lilly]

1. He was absolutely spot on about this freakish man. Over the years...

I have developed a grudging respect for Schmidt. I can’t get over the Palin debacle, which was a big smudged on him even though he was rather open, after the fact about his disgust about her.

I wish he and his words had more real power to rid us of these gawd awful, wretched Republicans who daily attack and threaten our decency and dignity as a nation.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Steve doesn't mess around.

He fails to get the point across to the Republicans, however, because they have no clue what many of the words he uses actually mean.

Imagine how frustrated he was training Palin.

[Lonestarblue]

11. Republicans also don't hear his words because they don't watch MSNBC.

Republicans think Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are the only truth tellers in the country. I’m not sure it’s possible to get through to them. Too many of the Trump supporters are too lazy to research and find out facts for themselves. The level of willful ignorance in this group is just appalling!

[Frustratedlady]

15. No, I agree. It is too late to reprogram them.

For many people, the worst, so-called "facts" are the ones that stay with you and they have been fed "facts" for far too long to ever be able to wipe the slate clean. They are lost souls and some were my friends. I have voted in many elections, but never lost friends because of one until Trump. Well, maybe W. It isn't that I don't like these people, as they were good people, but I resent that "we" will have to clean up the mess Trump is making and I won't live long enough to see it happen.

What amazes me is that they heard about Clinton's sexual prowess and it stayed with them; they hear about Trump's sexual problems and they forgive him. He didn't even ask for their forgiveness or said he was sorry...he paid off the playmates and they think he's the cat's pajamas. I know I'm not going nuts, but I can't get past this.

[Oppaloopa]

18. It is not to late. We do have to deprogram them. It is the only way.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. Even Naziism finally became unmasked to most Germans

After the war. And Germany became an example of changing the evil culture that Hitler built.

Yet there were still people who refused to let go of their cult. But the hopeful thought there is that they’re the minority.

Democrats and all people with clear vision have to fight and keep on fighting to reveal and dismantle the nerve centers of the cult, especially the Propaganda networks and personalities—fux, Limpbaugh, Michael Savagely repulsive, Scammity.....

[misanthrope]

43. Those who liberated the death camps often found

the townsfolk who lived in the areas around them engaged in a willful ignorance and delusion to keep from admitting to themselves what was going on there.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. There will always be those. Unfortunately.

Sigh.

But the people who waved little Nazi flags as the Allies drove through Berlin are a smaller minority. At least there’s that.

On edit:
I was thinking of the change in society sentiments over years actually. I mean, in the first comment about Germany changing after Hitler.

[pangaia]

30. ".. Clinton's sexual prowess .." etc

because RW media pounded it into their heads 32/9.

Same with trump's uncontrollable dick being ok...

[bdamomma]

3. Loved what

Steve Schmidt said about Pence, House butler

[oasis]

4. "Slobbering servility". A perfect description of Mike Pence's Trump adoration.

I suspect Trump promised to back him 100% for president if he (Trump)decides to step aside in 2020.

[marble falls]

5. "house butler at Mar-a-Lago". Priceless.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I completely agree with you! Who would have guessed??

One time I happened to turn on the TV in the afternoon - turns out Nicolle Wallace was on - and I heard Steve Schmidt give the best anti Trump rant that I've heard yet from anyone! He has an amazing talent for it!

[Chemisse]

7. He is not verbally harnessed by party loyalty.

So his opinions and ideas really mean something.

[gademocrat7]

8. Dead on balls accurate.

[dem4decades]

9. Schmidt's opening on Wallace's show yesterday concerning the White House and McCain was chilling.

He clearly holds McCain in esteem and he shit (eloquently) all over this classless batch now in the White House.

If you get a chance to see it, it is well worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=dL41okYbjac

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Amazing, really

If McCain had legislated from the political middle on a host of issues instead of toying with the middle in mavericky sound bites that all turned up dry, he may well have become President. At core he was far more conservative than he appeared to be. Sarah Palin didn't help either.

Remarkable moment by Steve Schmidt, thanks for sharing. Hard to believe they let him run that long, but there just was no place to interject.

[dem4decades]

20. Schmidt was television gold, I think they would have let him go all day.

I used to send letters and emails to McCain asking him to step up, he never did.

Except once, when he took to the Senate floor and gave the thumbs down sign, sadly I was asleep and missed it.

[True Blue American]

26. Steve Schmidt

Is one of Nicolle Wallace’s favorite friends. She turns him loose and lets him go. For Republican she does not mine words.

Another regular is Donny Duetch He knows both Trump and Cohen so can discuss them with ease.

Pence really made himself look like the hypocritical Evangelical he is with his adoring looks and constant praise of Trump.

[EffieBlack]

49. I'm tired of hearing Deutsch make excuses for Cohen

It was great to see someone - I don’t remember who it was - call him on his “Poor, poor Michael loves his family and suffering so much” handwringing by pointing out that Cohen is not the first person to find themselves in the grips of law enforcement but most of them are poor and people of color and no one cares about them.

And it’s interesting that, after years of Deutsch trashing Trump, we find out he’s thick as thieves with Trump’s enforcer.

[True Blue American]

55. Donny has been a businessman for years, had a large Ad Agency.

So he knows them all. The love of his family is the reason Donny said he will not protect Trump.

He makes it clear that what Cohen says is what he thinks. I have no doubt Donny knows plenty of the secrets of the corrupt business in New York starting with the 🚕 medallions.

[misanthrope]

42. I think it was more simple than McCain's record

I still believe had he tapped Joe Lieberman as a running mate rather than Sarah Palin he would have won.

[VOX]

17. Thanks for the link! n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. That was very good, thanks for linking!

I learned some things I hadn’t known about McCain. Good, I’m glad to see the positive side I didn’t know about; I just keep thinking of the past support for W. and the waffling and final failure (from a liberal perspective) to stand against republican bills that destroy real lives of real people.

[True Blue American]

27. Here is another good one

On John McCain. I have not always agreed with him, but when he gave that thumbs down on gutting the ACA it was one 😊 moment for me.

Here is Stephanie [link:http://

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[BlancheSplanchnik]

33. Yes, I remember that now.

Made me feel good!
But, didn’t he then turn around and vote for it? Maybe I’m not remembering right.

[True Blue American]

37. There was no other vote.

McCain killed the try to destroy the ACA. He has voted on other things I did not like, but he was getting the best Health Care in the world then.

I think he used his conscience not to take what health care we have away from millions.

Ryan and the House tried to kill the bill 55 times.

I looked at Steve Scalise, who had many surgeries celebrate outside the WHITEHOUSE taking Health care away while he had the best. He made me sick to my stomach.

One reason I admired McCain for taking the bill down. I would spit in Scalise face if I ever met him.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

46. Thanks for correcting me. I must be thinking of another last minute flip

by McCain.


Anyway, I agree....I’d like to unleash wrath and terrible fury on scalise. What typically entitled ignorant self-absorbed self-aggrandizing white frat boy scumfuckery.

[True Blue American]

50. What is worse on Scalise

He came onto the floor of the House loudly proclaiming, “ GOD saved him for a reason! His Prayers were answered!

Then proclaimed he had not changed his mind on gun control, then promptly voted to kill Health care for millions!

Now, he wants to be Speaker. A member of that trashy Freedom Caucus.

So is Jim Jordan. He lost everyone he backed in the Primary last week.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

63. Republicans.... they just suck

“Won’t you help us profit off the suffering of millions?”

[misanthrope]

44. Schmidt needs to face up to one thing

McCain won't be remembered in 500 years because it looks more unlikely by the day the United States will be here then. I'm not even talking about the accelerating disintegration of norms, of decorum and liberties. I'm talking about the disintegrating biosphere, the Anthropocene extinction and climate change which will eventually result in a breakdown of order. Drought, famine, chaos, warfare, it's all coming down the pike and we've done it to ourselves.

[Butterflylady]

10. He has the best command of the english language.

I can almost forgive him for releasing palin on us.

[Brogrizzly]

19. Lol no!

Oh wait just caught the almost, heh.

Palin *shudder*

[oberliner]

12. He is a Bush-Cheney-Rove acolyte

[KG]

14. piss on Steve Schmidt anyway

bitter PNACer butthurt over being left out of the latest repub smash and grab

[DinahMoeHum]

16. "moral preening" . . .indeed.

[PatSeg]

21. And Rick Wilson as well

They both are very eloquent and often witty, not something I'm used to in republicans.

[MineralMan]

22. I encourage everyone to dump on Trump,

even people on the right. I wouldn't vote for Schmidt, but I love seeing him trash the Trump administration from the right. I hope he continues to get plenty of air time.

[True Blue American]

56. I especially enjoy those on the Right

Go after Trump, Pence and McConnell.

I think it was George Will who called Mitch a Dictator, refusing to bring anything to the floor,even when his own party are behind it.

[angrychair]

23. Sorry, not sorry

Schmidt is a republican, just ask him.
I’m not kissing some republicans ass and telling people how great he is for, at least a couple minutes, sounding like a normal human being.
Throughout all this he has never stopped being a republican.

Schmidt gave us the “never met a war he didn’t like” McCain and Sarah fucking Palin.

Schmidt still says, to this day, he is a conservative republican.

Ask him about his economic views.

I’m all for the enemy of my enemy is my friend perspective
That said just because Schmidt doesn’t like trump and pence’s particular shade of crazy does not make him any less vile and morally bankrupt an asshole as any other republican, including pence or trump.

In case I wasn’t clear: fuck republicans

[jberryhill]

29. Precisely

[Gothmog]

36. I am enjoying Schmidt's comments

Link to tweet

[jberryhill]

28. Steve Schmidt spent a year trying to sell us Sarah Palin

Schmidt joined the Bush administration as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2004, he was a member of the senior strategic planning group, led by White House adviser Karl Rove, that ran President George W. Bush's re-election campaign; Schmidt oversaw the reelection "war room". In 2005 and 2006, he was the White House strategist responsible for the U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.

We'll spend a week here at DU trashing Joy Reid, but will fawn over these Republican figures whom we believe have found Jesus on the road to Damascus.

No they didn't.

If they had a job, a paycheck, and little bonuses from the slush fund now and then, they would quite happily be up to the same mischief they have always been up to.

Their only real problem is that they lost their seat at the buffet of inhumanity on which they had engorged themselves in the first place.

[roamer65]

31. Cut some slack to Steve. He is having a political epiphany right now.

He’s right and it is glorious to watch.

[Gothmog]

35. I agree

Link to tweet

[stonecutter357]

32. he is one of them no thanks !

[Gothmog]

34. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Heartstrings]

38. Thanks Gothmog!

[maxrandb]

39. Fuck him and every other

Fucking Retrumplican. I don't give a fuck about their so-called death bed conversions.

They'll clutch their pearls and gnash their teeth right up until they vote to throw sick poor kids in the street.

I'm taking to you too Susan Collins.

Every last one of them can go fuck themselves sideways with a First Edition hard cover copy of Atlas Shrugged.

[suegeo]

40. Drive Republicans into the sea

And salt the earth behind them. Fuck 'em all.

[Garrett78]

41. Schmidt and all Republicans have blood on their hands. Some are desperately trying to wash it off.

For all the talk about not normalizing Trump, we need to recognize that most of the policies Trump promotes are GOP SOP (standard operating procedure). Trump is just more overt in his bigotry and egregious in his buffoonery.

50 years of Southern Strategy/dog whistling, race-based gerrymandering and voter suppression, a racist "Drug War," xenophobia, a highly effective "liberal media" narrative, an all-out assault on feminism, anti-intellectualism and attacking public education, jingoism, denying science or getting in bed with those who do, off-the-charts hypocrisy and actively undermining trust in government (via procedural war) has led to this moment. The GOP is Dr. Frankenstein and Trump is their monster.

So, to all of the Republicans who write articles or appear on TV to express their outrage over Trump, look at the blood on your hands. Take responsibility. What, you're bothered (or even surprised) by the influence Putin's Russia is having on Trump and Congressional Republicans? That's a bridge too far? Guess what, Putin's goal of undermining the US government (or the trust in said government) has also been your goal. So, congrats, I guess.

[Hekate]

45. KnR for Steve and Nicolle, two (former) Repubs I could truly imagine having a conversation with

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. P.S. lord how I detest Pence's face.

Blaaaarrrrghhhhhhhh 🤮

[Glamrock]

51. Steve Schmidt is one of the most eloquent voices of the ignorant right!

Glad he see's what he helped build. Glad to see he's railing against it. But he still hates liberals...

[Heartstrings]

52. At this point in time

I much rather have his eloquence on “our side”, than against.

[Glamrock]

53. Just be prepared.

He still supports supply side economics. Guns for everyone. And every other conservative stance. Just because he's, bashing this administration verbally doesn't mean he's an ally in the strictest of senses ...

[Heartstrings]

54. No doubt about those facts....

Here and now, he’s wonderful to listen to! In the future?

[Glamrock]

57. We're on the same page then.

I just get irritated by the lovefest for a man who's spent a lifetime working against the Democratic party because he says things we agree with for a year and a half, dig?

[Heartstrings]

58. I dig ya, man!

Keep the faith! Stay the course! Farm out!

[True Blue American]

60. No lovefest here. I am just glad he is speaking out about the monsters that have taken over his Part

This has been coming for a long time, and hate of that Black Man in the WhiteHouse accelerated it.

With all the Police attacks on blacks, the racism and hate spewing out of the WH, I see we are going right back to the 1950’s again.

That is what we have to fight with everything we have.

[JI7]

62. no, he does not support guns for everyone. and he called for Republicans to support Same SEx

marriage in 2008 after Obama won the election.

conservative parties in Europe , Canada, and Australia support common sense gun control and many other common sense things that backwards republicans don't.

[vlyons]

59. Why is such a brilliant eloquent man still in the GOP?

nt

[True Blue American]

61. He could be trying to restore sanity

To the Party he believed in. Once upon a time,long ago,all Republicans were not mean. IKE.
Even Nixon did good things before he became paranoid. He wanted Health Care for all.

Right now, I hope they all desert the Party. There is no sanity left.