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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteve Schmidt is one of the most eloquent voices of the indignant right!
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)I have developed a grudging respect for Schmidt. I cant 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
(16,254 posts)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
(10,064 posts)Republicans think Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are the only truth tellers in the country. Im not sure its 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
(16,254 posts)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
(867 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)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 theyre 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 personalitiesfux, Limpbaugh, Michael Savagely repulsive, Scammity.....
misanthrope
(7,428 posts)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
(20,219 posts)Sigh.
But the people who waved little Nazi flags as the Allies drove through Berlin are a smaller minority. At least theres 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
(24,324 posts)because RW media pounded it into their heads 32/9.
Same with trump's uncontrollable dick being ok...
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)Steve Schmidt said about Pence, House butler
oasis
(49,407 posts)I suspect Trump promised to back him 100% for president if he (Trump)decides to step aside in 2020.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,008 posts)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
(30,817 posts)So his opinions and ideas really mean something.
gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)dem4decades
(11,304 posts)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
(43,284 posts)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
(11,304 posts)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
(17,988 posts)Is one of Nicolle Wallaces 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
(14,249 posts)It was great to see someone - I dont 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 its interesting that, after years of Deutsch trashing Trump, we find out hes thick as thieves with Trumps enforcer.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)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
(7,428 posts)I still believe had he tapped Joe Lieberman as a running mate rather than Sarah Palin he would have won.
VOX
(22,976 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I learned some things I hadnt known about McCain. Good, Im glad to see the positive side I didnt 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
(17,988 posts)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.
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BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Made me feel good!
But, didnt he then turn around and vote for it? Maybe Im not remembering right.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)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
(20,219 posts)by McCain.
Anyway, I agree....Id like to unleash wrath and terrible fury on scalise. What typically entitled ignorant self-absorbed self-aggrandizing white frat boy scumfuckery.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)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
(20,219 posts)Wont you help us profit off the suffering of millions?
misanthrope
(7,428 posts)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
(3,547 posts)I can almost forgive him for releasing palin on us.
Brogrizzly
(145 posts)Oh wait just caught the almost, heh.
Palin *shudder*
oberliner
(58,724 posts)KG
(28,752 posts)bitter PNACer butthurt over being left out of the latest repub smash and grab
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)PatSeg
(47,586 posts)They both are very eloquent and often witty, not something I'm used to in republicans.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)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
(17,988 posts)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
(8,733 posts)Schmidt is a republican, just ask him.
Im 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 didnt like McCain and Sarah fucking Palin.
Schmidt still says, to this day, he is a conservative republican.
Ask him about his economic views.
Im all for the enemy of my enemy is my friend perspective
That said just because Schmidt doesnt like trump and pences 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 wasnt clear: fuck republicans
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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
(36,747 posts)Hes right and it is glorious to watch.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)maxrandb
(15,351 posts)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
(2,573 posts)And salt the earth behind them. Fuck 'em all.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)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
(90,793 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Blaaaarrrrghhhhhhhh 🤮
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Glad he see's what he helped build. Glad to see he's railing against it. But he still hates liberals...
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)I much rather have his eloquence on our side, than against.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)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
(7,349 posts)Here and now, hes wonderful to listen to! In the future?
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)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
(7,349 posts)Keep the faith! Stay the course! Farm out!
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)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 1950s again.
That is what we have to fight with everything we have.
JI7
(89,264 posts)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
(10,252 posts)nt
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)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.