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The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Here are just a few of the incredible quotes from this book. Oh this is REALLY good stuff! — The awkward goodbye with McCain: McCain and Palin parted ways that night after she saw him getting into a Chevy Suburban outside the Arizona hotel where the campaign had gathered on election night. The conversation went like this: “‘John? Is that you'’ Palin asked. Cindy [McCain] was...
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
According to a new book, Sarah from Alaska by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, tensions within Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign "boiled over on Election Night last November when Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, repeatedly ignored directions from senior staffers who told her she would not be delivering her own concession speech," CNN reports. "Palin's speechwriter Matthew...
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
"Nearly a year after Election Day 2008, the campaign managers for John McCain and Barack Obama, who spent last year at war, have joined forces," CNN reports. "McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, his counterpart on the Obama campaign, are teaming up to develop a political communications center at the University of Delaware. Both men attended the university, though...
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Horserace (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
John McCain's Top Strategist in the 2008 Presidential Elections Said Sarah Palin Was a Good VP Choice, In Spite of Earlier Comments that She Would Be a Bad Nominee in 2012
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Schmidt is defending John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin. (CNN) – Ten days after declaring Sarah Palin would be "catastrophic" to the Republican Party should she become its standard bearer in 2012, former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt defended the choice of the former Alaska governor for the No. 2 spot on the GOP's presidential ticket [...]
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Even though Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt's recent comments about Sarah Palin were not flattering , the AP reports he defended McCain's choice of Palin as his running mate. Said Schmidt: "I believe to this day that had she not been picked as a vice presidential candidate, we would have never been ahead, not for one second, not for one minute, not for one hour,...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Tracking the GOP race to 2012 Sarah Palin will reportedly form a new political organization as her memoir hits bookstores in November; despite having predicted Palin would be a "catastrophic" nominee for the GOP in 2012, former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt defended the decision to pick her as VP nominee today; Tim Pawlenty addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition in DC today; Eric...
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Eye of Polyphemus (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Does anyone believe John McCain when he says he respects and admires Sarah Palin? Me, either. I cannot imagine what game he is playing. He remained dead silent as anonymous campaign staff in his 2008 run trashed palin up and down. He does not appear to have carried on any sort of professional relationship with her, either. He certainly is not likely to endorse her possible candidacy for president mitt...
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
For the first time, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) "is openly admitting that there were tensions between his former campaign manager Steve Schmidt and those close to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain's one-time White House running mate," CNN reports. Said McCain: "With a high-pressure situation, there's always tensions that develop within campaigns. And there were clearly tensions between...
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American Power (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
My latest essay at Pajamas Media is up today, " McCain Continues to Prove Himself the Enemy of the Grassroots ": The timing was impeccable. On the day after HarperCollins released the cover photo for Going Rogue — Sarah Palin’s highly anticipated autobiography — Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s former chief campaign advisor, predicted that if Palin were to win the 2012...
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Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Apocalypse talk is catching on! And on Monday, John Weaver, McCain’s closest political adviser for much of the past decade, said that he was nearly certain that the former governor would never be the Republican nominee and added that, if she was, “it would surely mean a political apocalypse is upon us.” Steve Schmidt goes with the [...]
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
DOWNLOADS: (59) PLAYS: (363) While discussing the success of Sarah Palin's book Mike Murphy echoes David Brooks with his statement that "the noisiest parts of kind of the conservative media machine have far less influence than the mainstream media machine that covers the Republican world thinks they do". Murphy needs to tell that to those sour-grapes Palin voters hitting those tea bag protests...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Steve Schmidt, John McCain's former chief campaign strategist, said it would be "catastrophic" for the Republican Party if Palin was their presidential nominee in 2012.I think that she has talents, but my honest view is...
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The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s top political strategist in 2008, told a forum in Washington today that nominating Palin as the party’s next presidential nominee would be “catastrophic” for Republicans. “I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate,” Schmidt said. “In fact, were she to be the nominee, we would have...
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Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
The bad blood between top aides to Senator John McCain and his running mate last year, Sarah Palin, apparently is lingering. Steve Schmidt, McCain's presidential campaign manager, didn't have very nice things to say today about Palin's prospects as a...
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