Drool bucket alert: New York Times reporter scribbles love note to former McCain adviser Steve Schmidt
http://twitter.com/#!/michaelpfreeman/status/211437639591657473
Reporter Adam Nagourney published a fawning, kissy-faced love letter to John McCain’s backstabbing former campaign adviser Steve Schmidt in today’s New York Times. The simpering profile is titled “A Career Resurrected After McCain and Palin.”
It's almost like if you bash Republicans, the New York Times will forgive you for selecting Sarah Palin as veep. http://t.co/pgOScpPw
— DavidKenner (@DavidKenner) June 9, 2012
Indeed. But it’s not just Nagourney gazing dreamily at Schmidt. The drool buckets runneth over when a GOP strategist is willing to slime and smear his fellow Republicans:
I hope your account was hacked MT @davidfrum Touching portrait in NYT of Steve Schmidt, a good man with a weight on his conscience
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 9, 2012
@JonahNRO All you have to know is that Woody Harrelson thinks he's swell–the only GOPer he could see himself playing.
— mpiii (@mpiii1) June 9, 2012
"If the Republican Party in 2012 thought more like Steve Schmidt, that would make our job more difficult," -David Plouffe #ThingsNoOneThinks
— Seth (@dcseth) June 9, 2012
Hey, look! Steve Schmidt is growing in office! Praise from the media for his candor! https://t.co/LD9Puieh
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 9, 2012
Terrific profile of a strikingly candid McCain '08 campaign manager Steve Schmidt by @adamnagourney. http://t.co/AA52BIcm
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) June 9, 2012
After paying his dues to the Palin bashers, Schmidt finally achieved his goal: a standing invitation to stand smugly with his pinky out while sipping drinks at liberal establishment cocktail parties.
BREAKING: Steve Schmidt has been diagnosed with @DavidFrum's Disease – a cocktail party invite addiction. #Tragic
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) June 9, 2012
Here’s a reminder from John Podhoretz about Schmidt’s lack of integrity:
Yes, if ever you wanted circumstantial evidence that the sources within the McCain campaign who spent October 2008 dumping on Palin anonymously might have included Wallace and Schmidt, you need look no further than HBO’s Game Change. The movie presents a moral case for the disreputable conduct of aides who, we can presume, fearlessly drop dirty dimes anonymously to save their own standing in the liberal culture from which they desperately wish not to be excluded.
Schmidt might know the not-so-secret liberal handshake now, but he’s reduced himself to a punchline in conservative circles.
You spelled "all that" wrong. RT @mattklewis: Steve Schmidt represents much of what is evil about politics. http://t.co/V0ve2CJC
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) June 9, 2012
I can't believe the NYT didn't pay more attention to Schmidt's historic work on the Matt Fong campaign.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 9, 2012
As far as I can remember, Schmidt has never won an actual campaign. But yeah, Romney would be doing better taking his advice.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 9, 2012
Okay, I was wrong. Schmidt did win the Schwarzenegger re-elect — when Arnold started his great move left.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 9, 2012
@JonahNRO so he helped beat a hated Governor, a porn star, and Arnold from Different Strokes. GIVE HIM THE KEYS MITT!
— Michael Hall (@Buckeyesales) June 9, 2012
https://twitter.com/UCCowboy/status/211448042937786370
@JonahNRO Is it too soon to declare Schmidt the Bob Shrum of Republican politics?
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) June 9, 2012
https://twitter.com/rynemcclaren/status/211446864992673792
So how long until CNN gives Steve Schmidt and Megan McCain a show together? "Dueling Douchebags".
— Scott (@ScottyE_FL) June 9, 2012
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