There has been zero effort - zero - to improve any of her obvious deficiencies.” “I’ve watched her on the public stage over the past four years. “She absolutely should not be president: no way, no how,” he said. Schmidt may pay a bit of a price for the style of his return, both because of his prominence as a Republican critic on MSNBC and the revelatory nature of such postcampaign chronicles as “Game Change.” None of the Republican candidates for president made a serious effort to recruit him, though it seems unlikely Mr. “When you get down to writing the check to the consultant, that’s the one thing you look at: This guy might be talking on my side now, but he was disloyal.”Īt least in Republican circles, Mr. Schmidt had hurt himself should he want to return to political consulting. And what better way to do it than to tear down Sarah Palin?” “The game was to ingratiate himself with the establishment. “Schmidt has establishment fever,” said John P. Schmidt the maneuverings of an insider trying to advance his interests at the expense of a former client. That evolution has been viewed with disdain by Ms. “If the Republican Party in 2012 thought more like Steve Schmidt, that would make our job more difficult,” said Mr. Schmidt even had lunch in the White House mess with David Plouffe, President Obama’s senior adviser who raves about his politics skills, and had his photograph taken with the president. I came with him.’ At this point, I feel quite fond of him.” “We would be at a party, and people would say to me, ‘You know the guy you played is over there.’ And I was like ‘Yeah, I know. Schmidt to be his date to the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April, and to the exclusive pre- and after-parties, no matter that the night happened to fall on Mr. Harrelson, in an interview last week, described him as a “buddy” and recounted how he persuaded Mr. Schmidt, who walked the red carpet at the Washington and New York openings of HBO’s “Game Change,” has become a minor celebrity in nonpolitical circles: Mr. Schmidt now describes the Palin selection. Schmidt - television commentator and public relations executive, delivering speeches and wisdom on the politics of the day - has a higher profile than ever, and stands as evidence that there may be little cost to being associated with a losing campaign and a disastrous political misjudgment, as Mr. Schmidt might have orchestrated for a beleaguered public figure. Schmidt has emerged from that car crash and settled into a lucrative and prominent existence that suggests he is the beneficiary of the kind of political resurrection Mr.
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Schmidt himself feared that his role in that campaign would leave an indelible scar on his reputation.īut these days, helped in large part by the book and the movie “Game Change,” particularly the sympathetic portrayal of him in the film by Woody Harrelson, Mr. Instead, her selection was widely viewed as one of the most calamitous political judgments in modern presidential politics.
McCain, that could win him the White House. McCain’s running mate, a bold move, he told Mr. Schmidt who first championed Sarah Palin as Mr. Schmidt - an imposing block of a man - buttressed his reputation as an intimidating enforcer, unsmilingly, calculating and permanently on the attack. He spent the next four months battling political foes, news organizations and rivals inside the campaign itself with such ferocity that Mr. Schmidt to join his presidential campaign as its senior adviser. This resort town is his home, 2,500 miles from Washington, D.C., and nearly four years away from the day in the summer of 2008 when Senator John S.
Even in this most calming of places - the glassine lake ringed by snow-dusted mountains, the late-morning quiet - Mr. A BASEBALL cap perched on his head, his eyes sheathed in sunglasses, Steve Schmidt sipped a Diet Coke and gazed across Lake Tahoe to California.
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