Steve Schmidt sounds off on Colin's and Murkowski's impending vote..

[HipChick]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[madaboutharry]

1. "...of how dishonest and full of shit they are."

Steve for the win.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[HipChick]

2. He's pissed....

[SharonAnn]

24. She's a staunch Republican , never was anything else. She lies.

She really just wants to get along with “the guys”.
And she loves having them court her for her vote.
Playing games, flirting, soaking up attention.
Dishonest.

[brush]

26. He doesn't hold back and I love it. What a wordsmith he is.

[Nitram]

31. Wordsmith? LOL! Let's settle for pulls no punches, tells it like it is, doesn't suffer fools gladly.

Wordsmithing wasn't involved.

[brush]

32. Guess you haven't watched him on his many appearances on cable news shows

He regularly displays brilliantly articulated take downs of trump and the rest of the cowardly, incompetent repugs.

I agree though that this one was pungently earthy.

[Nitram]

34. I haven't seen him, and I'll gladly take your word for that.

But this is not an example of wordsmithing, it is an example of blunt honesty.

[Hekate]

3. Wow, Steve

[spanone]

4. Fucking K&R...

[BootinUp]

5. K&R

[dchill]

6. Schmidt has strong principles. I'm continually surprised by that.

And pleasantly surprised. You go, Steve.

[Le Grand Pronounceur]

8. There actually ARE decent Republicans left

Too bad none of them are in elective office. And yes, I know Schmidt left the party. I personally know several people who've done the same, including my older brother.

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Why is he a Republican?

What has he ever agreed with them on?

[AZ8theist]

35. He's no longer. He left the party...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/today-i-renounce-my-membership-longtime-gop-strategist-steve-schmidt-announces-hes-leaving-his-party/2018/06/20/5918d7ee-747d-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.aa75ea07c4b5

[LiberalLovinLug]

36. Oh wow, I didn't know that

I have also wondered why someone like Ana Navarro retains her R membership. But on the other hand, while I am baffled at that, and would have had Steve also still been a member, I think they do us more service in some ways, retaining their claim to the grand old party. As examples to other Republicans who will never switch, of a way forward for a new improved more moderate conservative party.

[Rebl2]

7. I learned

long ago not to trust anything Colin says, because she always changes her mind in the end. She’s spineless.

[bdamomma]

11. She caves on everything

her constituents should vote her out.

[dansolo]

19. She doesn't cave, she lies

Caving suggests that she was actually considering voting the other way. It is all political cover to get herself positive press. I honestly believe that the only reason that Collins and Murkowski voted against the ACA repeal was because they were expecting John McCain to vote for it. I don't give them any credit for that vote. They only vote against something when the result isn't in doubt. They are both liars and cowards, and probably couldn't care less about Roe v. Wade.

[magicarpet]

20. At the beginning she takes the posture that helps her look like a moderate so she appeals to a ....

... wider voting audience.

Then once she captures all this media attention about how she is such a thoughtful moderate, she then sneaks out the backdoor and runs to vote with the Fascist Rethugs. Review her voting record... 85% trDump policy supporter.

She is a moderate for the beneficial media optics only... then she falls in line to quietly vote with the Fascists.

[INdemo]

9. The same could be said for Donnelly of Indiana and Manchin of West Va

For Donnelly he will gain more votes by voting no ..the same for Manchin.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Yep, I called the two mentioned above and the two you mentioned on Fri.

I will keep calling and calling so at least I know I did try something anyway. I am stubborn and angry with these spineless reps.

[Calista241]

10. I thought all the establishment Repubs were all about how Kavanaugh is a great pick for Trump.

[Auntie Bush]

13. He's a great prick for tRump.

[Auntie Bush]

12. I love everything Steve Schmidt has to say these days.

Since he left the Rethug party and Palin.

[karin_sj]

14. He is absolutely right

They are gutless hypocrites

[world wide wally]

15. That sums it up pretty well.

Now their voters need to get their heads out of the respective asses.

[orleans]

17. i appreciate the tweets

and i know he dumped the republican party because of trump, but let's not forget this tidbit from wiki:
"He is best known for persuading McCain to select Sarah Palin as his running mate. He specialized in "message development and strategy"

[Pachamama]

18. If they all don't vote NO on Kavanaugh, they will be architects of a lot more than the destruction

...of Roe v Wade....

They will be the architects of the destruction of Obamacare and laws that protect us all....



They will lose their jobs, but it will be too late for all of us...

[Honeycombe8]

21. He's right. And he says it straight up. They're cons in not defending Roe v Wade,

as they have professed to be in favor of protecting.

[Upthevibe]

23. He's absolutely right....

They are full of SHIT!

[fallout87]

25. It's amazing that some people actually thought these Republicans

....weren't actual republicans.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. When condoms are illegal, let alone abortion, and they will be, when your SS is taken

from you, please ask one of the idiots if it was worth it, if I am not around.

[Hortensis]

28. AK and ME are both heavily pro-abortion. These senators

have been hoping to maintain plausible deniability about knowing Kavanaugh's real stance, but our party leaders have made blowing these betraying hypocrites' cover a significant part of their strategy for defeating this nomination. Success, of course, depends on their pro-abortion conservative voters' degree of anger or apathy. If one turned tail to protect herself, that will make it very difficult for the other, who'd become the woman who killed legal abortion.

Blabby Trump's helping. He's said many times that he's appointing justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, including just this week in speaking about Kavanaugh.

[Trust Buster]

29. Same can be said of Democrats from red states that vote to confirm.

[Raven123]

30. Nonsense. Schmidt knows this Is not new. Collins voted for Scalito.

I wonder if this isn’t more about Schmidt’s own disdain for Trump.

[OnDoutside]

33. No, this is the one that pushes the RW court over the top. Kavanaugh is the victory line for the RW.

That's why it matters more than all the others.

[Raven123]

37. My point is that i don't think Schmidt would care

Were it not for his dislike of Trump. He was involved with the nomination of Scalito and I doubt he called out Collins then.

[OnDoutside]

38. Yet it took Trump to bring the realisation to Never Trumpers just

what the GOP has become. I accept what you are saying, and have asked a similar question myself but we cannot unring that bell.