Former Top Bush-Cheney Aide Takes Over McCain Day-to-Day Operations
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Jul 01, 2008 3:00pm
John McCain is nothing like George W. Bush. He just has the same people running his campaign. Nothing wrong with that.
Steve Schmidt is taking over the day-to-day operation of John McCain’s campaign, according to multiple campaign sources.
McCain sources say Schmidt, who ran Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reelection campaign and was a top communications aide in Bush-Cheney '04, will coordinate the campaign's daily pro-McCain and anti-Obama message but also will have an increased role in shaping most every facet of the organization including scheduling, policy, coalitions and surrogates.
So McSame moves from a lobbyist with Charlie Black to one of Dick Cheney's team--from K Street to Dirty Tricks. Nice move. Remember, this isn't the first major shakeup of the McCain campaign team. We'll just have to wait and see how this plays out for him.
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The Neocons must love those pretty lips.
They fired an idiot and hired an imbecile. These people are geniuses.
So how will a different hand on the shovel change the shit they're moving?
It's not like this guy is going to improve McCain's chances of winning.
Duh, buh, WTFHITSOMGGTHYB!
So, the guy reponsible for getting the guy that fucked up the US for the last 8 years is now the campaign manager...of the next GOP candidate? Is there no originality on the GOP side? Can't they even find somebody else to preside over a McPapen defeat?
I dunno, if Obama doesn't stop pandering to the Right, this guy could just run both campaigns...
Is it just me...or does this guy just look like a total asshole?
McSame should just stop beating around the Bush. He's gonna pick Cheney for veep so he might as well do it and get it over with !
meanwhile...
obama's talkin about keeping on robert gates >_<
of course mccain is worse and all but im not really sure how much lesser of an evil obama is.
his lesser of two evils lead slips a little every time i read up on who's pulling his strings.
obama's main foreign policy adviser is zbigniew "i created al-quaida" brzezinski.
boggles the f@ck!n mind
Just a new guy to try to plug the hole in the bottom of the boat while the waves are washing over the bow.
Whoever runs the show has a hard as hell job. To sell McCain as a younger guy with fresh ideas isn't going to be easy. Plus when this candidate is following in bush's footsteps almost every inch of the way, it's hard to separate him from the most despised president of our lifetime.
Albatross @ 6:
Obama's pandering is only temporary. He doesnt want to piss off the people who control the voting machines. McSame however, he owes them his soul.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So this is the guy with the Diebold programmer connections?
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 13:
yes, he's a Republican.
McSame- Self Fulfilling Prophecy.
GrossBerger's in Politics now?
The guy reminds me of a heavier Jeff Gannon
Apparently the McCain campaign isn't killing enough puppies and punching enough old ladies and babies.
If you plan to steal the election you need the same criminals, they have experience and can be counted on to lie when needed.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
I guess the new guy will join the 131 lobbyists and do his work riding in the bullshit express. You'd figure that they need at least three busses by now, each with a trailer
pissed off patricia @ 17:
eeeeeeeeeuuuuuwwwwwwwww !!!!!!!
So less false flag ops and more smear ops?
John McBu'ush
There's only one reason you make a change like this, you know your campaign is in deep do-do.
"The guy reminds me of a heavier Jeff Gannon"
LOL patricia u slay me
I'm starting to get really annoyed seeing McCain say that he wants to run his campaign without smearing Obama and that he's not like Bush. Hiring Steve Schmidt is a perfect example of how McSame is full of S***!!!
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 21:
Sorry I caused you any discomfort, but he does remind me of him.
get ready for heavy fear/smear strategy....obama is hanging very well....that wasn't part of the NEOCON plan
we must not let them to continue to dilute the mcBush theme.......this is the strategy that will work
mccain is a third bush term period
You know, just try to imagine a heavier Jeff Gannon in clothes and you'll probably see what I mean.
The Exotic Chico Hussein Escuela @ 11:
"Beisbol has been beddy beddy good to me."
Of course! He'll probably resume his progressive ways right after the inauguration...
...of President Jeb Bush in 2017
Look for McSame to be buying a ranch somehwere in Texas soon, followed by some brush clearing.
McSame hired another fascist neo-conservative pig. Mc is not different than Dubya and Cheney and their crime family of thugs. We need to take our government back and put everyone of these people behind bars.
Albatross @ 30:
"Tom Seaver always take best parkeeng spats"
There wont be another Bush in the Oval Office until a woman finally gets to the WH.
In the Phenomenal News file...
Betancourt freed from Colombia FARC
That's a fantastic outcome, and I hope that all the hostages make a full recovery.
And it's so encouraging that this outcome came as a result of U.S. diplomatic efforts to free the longest-held U.S. hostages in the world... what? You say the Bush Administration basically ignored this kidnapping the entire time, and had nothing to do with the hostages being freed? Hm. How 'bout that...
Hey what better way to show the American people that you are not like bush than to hire the same team of henchmen as bush used?
One thing is for sure, Cindy will not have to do a lot of practice to have the same empty eyed look that Laura has. In fact Cindy always looks like she would rather be anywhere else than where she is at the moment. I just don't think her heart is into this campaigning business.
ThomasButterfield @ 19:
and their pardons are pre-typed.
karl @ 28:
you mean like bob schieffer on Sunday? such unbridled FEAR at the thought of Obama.
Albatross @ 34:
Did this just happen to be the day when McCain was in Columbia? If so, am I supposed to believe this is just coincidence? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy as hell they finally got out of there
Not a very deft or adaptable bunch, nor are they aware that their typical tried and true shtick is a canary fart in the sawmill of national discontent.
I can start to see the patterns, a fake PUMA organization, lots of fake comments on nearly all left blogs by fake democrats as this years augmentation of fake robocalls.The usual MSM connivances involving shrill obscurantist triviality with equal measure of irrelevant distraction a la Tiger's knee problem and soap opera conjuration over useful information.
I have a sense it is broken and doomed and may really be the dying GOP doing the last TV era election as Obama masters the first web era election.
The GOP grandees are showing the deft and nimble adaptability of jacklit deer and even they ploys are running flat in a remarkably short shelf life.
But yes, there's always diebold
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 37:
schieffer's comeback/response/rebuttal was weak....it was the typical public argument...obama doesn't have any executive experience........that wasn't the argument clark was making....clark is trying to put a crack in that armour mccains past military experience is not a free pass to the presidency...a difficult argument to make to the public. schieffer deflected the argument to obama credentials again it's not the argument...obama play this out well he knew how they would interpret/spin it
Albatross @ 6:
Your drugs must be expensive.
I just saw a repuglitard describing why mcsame changed his campaign staff
this doesn't mean that mcsame's campaign is in disarray
mcsame revamped his staff cuz they were doing such a great job
they were so successful that mcssame had to make changes
is anybody buying that shit
karl @ 40:
I was actually speaking more of bullet Bob's look and the sound of his stark fear and outrage at the thought of Obama having better judgement than McSame. he absolutely squealed.
Environmentally, it is the responsible thing to do... recycle, reduce and reuse. Right? And since McCain is embracing the notion of Global warming... perhaps he is also becoming an environmentalist as well. No?
On the other hand, McCain could just be another useful tool of the corporate right, just like President Chimpy Figurehead --- so this bunch of white collared thieves can continue to loot the treasury and rape the rest of the world's resources for profit.
freepatriot @ 42:
Nope! You don't fix something that isn't broke.
freepatriot @ 42:
I buy it!
since they're all lobbyists, all they ever had to do was ask mcC*nt for a few favors and pass the payoff money.
how hard is that?
knowing McKeatingFive, they had to be successful.
This plan to send out people to drop anti Obama comments on left wing blogs is lame. Just because I read that someone is not voting for Obama for this or that reason, has absolutely no effect on my thinking. Thinking is something that I can do for myself. McCain's campaign has at times sounded downright juvenile.
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 43:
i totally agree that was part of my weak statement
it's a fear strategy all around
The associations and similarity to Cheney should be pushed into the public consciousness LOUD and often.
He's even more unpopular than his puppet.
Why be a Richard when you can be a Dick?
E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers.
wait for it... mcBUSH will somehow take credit for this...
remember it's not just to sway people or get them to believe something it's also to get a response they think they can predict getting.....then the (R) can say on national mainstream media we've seen on some of the blogs that the left is saying...........another possible linguistic trap
karl @ 48:
I know it's been a long work day when I agree with someone and still haggle about the wording. I'm done.
havaguday, all!
"John McCain is nothing like George W. Bush. He just has the same people running his campaign. Nothing wrong with that."
"Politico:
Steve Schmidt is taking over the day-to-day operation of John McCain’s campaign, according to multiple campaign sources."
"McCain sources say Schmidt, who ran Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s..."
this is nonsense, if we could draw that mccain == bush due to schmidt we can also say bush == mccain == Schwarzenegger which is clearly silly.
mccain == bush because he's advocating the same damn stupid ruinous policies the administration has used to destroy our country the past 7 years.
let's not get sidetracked throwing trite crapola like the re-thugs and get them with real issues instead.
lord knows there's plenty of real issues they've screwed up.
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 52:
wow.......sorry
pissed off patricia @ 47:
And it's not like it hasn't already been going on for weeks and months!
I've been studying the patterns for a while. In investment forums these creatures, (Fake democrat comment makers)), are called 'sock puppets'. We seem to have minor opportunistic swarms at certain times to attempt exploitation of some anti Obama soap opera item.
They must have an e mail tree with bulleted 'talking points' they then woodenly attempt to flog with pedestrian prose. It is the dull construction along with the core similarity that gives the show away.
ha!!!
Fox News: There ‘Really Might Be A Connection’ Between McCain’s Visit To Colombia And The Hostage Release»
Today, Colombia’s Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said that his country’s government had rescued 15 hostages — including former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors — from FARC rebels.
Santos made his announcement shortly after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) left the country, where he was visiting as part of a three-day trip to Colombia and Mexico. As soon as the good news broke, Fox News was already spinning it as a victory for McCain and speculating that it came about as a result of the senator’s short visit to the country:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/02/mccain-colombia/#comment-5066232
pissed off patricia @ 38:
I don't believe in coincidence. CNN said McLame's name about every other word while reporting this story along with clips of him getting off the plane over and over and over until it was either throw a brick at the tv or turn it off.
As Martha would say, "It's a good thing". Whenever campaigns start firing people, a.k.a. looking for people to blame, it's a sign of that campaign being in trouble. Just recently we had the example of Clinton firing Patti Solis Doyle and "demoting" Mark Penn. BTW, is McLame claiming personal success with the hostage release in Columbia?
liberalAGNOSTICFRONTmoderation @ 7:
Looks like Jeff Gannon/Geckert to me - with his clothes on & his lips puckered...
McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia
rooth honky cracker hussein @ 60:
probably a client! you know repugs and those closets and airport restrooms...
Janet @ 58:
Now wait a gosh-darned minute here! Are you suggesting that an American candidate would try to make himself look good for an election by conspiring with armed foreign terrorists who are holding American hostages?
Don't be ridiculous.
So, that is the 'change we deserve'?
katy @ 57:
ABB @ 65:
one of those two... i forget... maybe BOTH... he's done SO much...
pissed off patricia @ 17:
I thought the same thing when I first saw the picture on the front page.
And this disproves another four years of Bush how?
I thought that was a photo of Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert for a moment.
This isn't the only Bush-bot behind McCain; here's the McCain Brain trust. PNAC'ers and Elitists all. Do we want something like that with its' fingers on the nuke-yoo-ler 'football'? Junior was bad enough...
Chris Rich @ 56:
My experience has been that they get there talking points from Hannity. You can tell because they're always about some incredibly trivial issue like some college professor Obama met once, or the interest rate he got on his mortgage. Pathetic stuff, but of great "concern" to some.
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