I posted this, because it made me laugh. I can’t be certain that Steve Schmidt is sincere in his fervent criticism of the last administration and the current state of his former party, but he sure sounds sincere and he hasn’t wavered in his criticism for the past several years.
Your musing about whether Schmidt had ever taken responsibili…
I posted this, because it made me laugh. I can’t be certain that Steve Schmidt is sincere in his fervent criticism of the last administration and the current state of his former party, but he sure sounds sincere and he hasn’t wavered in his criticism for the past several years.
Your musing about whether Schmidt had ever taken responsibility for his part in elevating Palin to be McCain’s running mate prompted me to look into whether he had done so. He did, in fact, publicly take some responsibility for the disaster that is Palin in a few different interviews after the McCain/Palin ticket lost. For example, in 2012, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, when asked what he had learned from the McCain campaign, he said, “For me and the experience I had on this campaign [the lesson] is that there are worse things than losing…When a result happens that puts someone who’s not prepared to be president on the ticket, that’s a bad result. I think the notion of Sarah Palin being president of the United States is something that frightens me, frankly. And I played a part in that. And I played a part in that because we were fueled by ambition to win… I think there are important lessons to learn. The reality is is that both parties have nominated people in the last decade who are not prepared to be anywhere near the Oval Office. John Edwards in the Democratic Party. Sarah Palin in the Republican Party. And we ought to take a pause and understand how that happened, why it happened and hopefully it’ll never happen again in our lifetimes.”
Of course, it did happen again in catastrophic proportions in 2016, so it seems reasonable to conclude that Schmidt is sincere in his passionate exhortations that we, as voters, hold our political parties and candidates responsible for protecting our democracy and never let such a travesty happen again. Unfortunately, it is evident that a majority of Republicans are placing party over country and are not committed to insuring qualified, ethical people ascend to the highest elected offices through free and fair elections. The work of democracy is never done.
He sounds sincere to me as well, Mary Anne. Thank you so much for finding and posting this. In our current culture it seems especially important to lift up those who can admit their own responsibility for where we are and care enough to work hard to make amends. Seems like Schmidt is doing that. At this point, I’m convinced that those calling themselves Republicans don’t even care about their party, they just want to force an evil dictator on the rest of us.
I posted this, because it made me laugh. I can’t be certain that Steve Schmidt is sincere in his fervent criticism of the last administration and the current state of his former party, but he sure sounds sincere and he hasn’t wavered in his criticism for the past several years.
Your musing about whether Schmidt had ever taken responsibility for his part in elevating Palin to be McCain’s running mate prompted me to look into whether he had done so. He did, in fact, publicly take some responsibility for the disaster that is Palin in a few different interviews after the McCain/Palin ticket lost. For example, in 2012, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, when asked what he had learned from the McCain campaign, he said, “For me and the experience I had on this campaign [the lesson] is that there are worse things than losing…When a result happens that puts someone who’s not prepared to be president on the ticket, that’s a bad result. I think the notion of Sarah Palin being president of the United States is something that frightens me, frankly. And I played a part in that. And I played a part in that because we were fueled by ambition to win… I think there are important lessons to learn. The reality is is that both parties have nominated people in the last decade who are not prepared to be anywhere near the Oval Office. John Edwards in the Democratic Party. Sarah Palin in the Republican Party. And we ought to take a pause and understand how that happened, why it happened and hopefully it’ll never happen again in our lifetimes.”
Of course, it did happen again in catastrophic proportions in 2016, so it seems reasonable to conclude that Schmidt is sincere in his passionate exhortations that we, as voters, hold our political parties and candidates responsible for protecting our democracy and never let such a travesty happen again. Unfortunately, it is evident that a majority of Republicans are placing party over country and are not committed to insuring qualified, ethical people ascend to the highest elected offices through free and fair elections. The work of democracy is never done.
He sounds sincere to me as well, Mary Anne. Thank you so much for finding and posting this. In our current culture it seems especially important to lift up those who can admit their own responsibility for where we are and care enough to work hard to make amends. Seems like Schmidt is doing that. At this point, I’m convinced that those calling themselves Republicans don’t even care about their party, they just want to force an evil dictator on the rest of us.
Thanks again for your post 🙏❤️