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Steve Schmidt's war against Sarah Palin
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 13, 2010 10:01am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Jeanne Cummings |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Steve Schmidt spent ten weeks building Sarah Palin up and the two of them have spent a good part of the last 14 months tearing each other down.
A losing campaign always brings out the knives, but usually they are wielded in the shadows. The pure spectacle of a former campaign strategist going on national television to trash the candidate whose image he once stage-managed – as Schmidt did Sunday on “60 Minutes” - is virtually unprecedented.
Among Washington operatives the response to Schmidt ranges from quiet admiration for telling uncomfortable truths to mystification that he and Palin would belabor internal disputes that in an earlier era of politics would have stayed behind closed doors.
At least a half-dozen Republican operatives declined to discuss the matter, instead voicing the plaintive hope the dispute will simply go away. But one Democrat praised Schmidt’s willingness to take a stand, even at the risk of hurting his livelihood as a California political consultant. |
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