The Republican Party that platformed Steve Schmidt for a decade is gone in all but name, writes TianatheFirst. 'Grifters come and go, but political gatekeepers are forever, and clearly, ours require an upgrade.'
This week, I'm thinking of Steve Schmidt, the former top campaign aide to John McCain, who has been on one of his 25-hour tweet binges against Maggie Haberman and the New York Times, Eliana Johnson and the Washington Free Beacon, Josh Holmes and the men of the Ruthless podcast, and the late senator himself. Schmidt has been triggered in this regard by McCain's daughter Meghan.
As sources close to McCain told Free Beacon boss Johnson, then at Politico, about the Arizonan's funeral,"The [Washington National C]athedral will be filled with people who stabbed McCain in the front. Schmidt and Nicolle [Wallace, now of MSNBC] and [John] Weaver stabbed him in the back, and you can't find a single McCain loyalist who will say different or feels different."
A week ago, Schmidt was claiming Cindy McCain had bashed her own daughter to him while on the campaign trail. By Sunday, he claimed he had lied about an extramarital affair that John McCain denied at the time in order to undercut a thinly sourced New York Times report. Today, Schmidt tells Politico he didn't even vote for his boss in '08, whom he believed"completely unfit to be president.
Even conservatives reveling in the schadenfreude of Schmidt's collapse have expressed concern over the operative's mental health. I'm less concerned with the clown himself than with the fact that someone like this was able to build and maintain conservative and then cultural credibility for more than two decades.
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