Schmidt Calls Palin's Memoirs "Total Fiction"
Steve Schmidt now joins a host of former McCain staffers, who have challenged the veracity of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, even before it hits the streets on Tuesday.
Steve Schmidt now joins a host of former McCain staffers, who have challenged the veracity of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, even before it hits the streets on Tuesday.
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.14.2009 | Books
Excerpts from Sarah Palin's Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies that have received advanced copies. Here are the first ten lies from the memoir.
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Headlines recently declared "Sarah Palin's Speeches Were Ready but Never Seen -- Until Now." While Palin did not deliver her concession speech on election night, she did deliver most of it eight days later.
AP | ANDREW DeMILLO | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A top adviser from John McCain's presidential campaign who has criticized Sarah Palin's odds as a 2012 presidential candidat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
In comments almost certain to rankle Republicans on Capital Hill, Sen. John McCain's 2008 campaign manager Steve Schmidt accused the GOP on Friday of ...
William Bradley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
Megan McCain's response to the Washington Monthly's Steve Benen about Cheney seems to be the sort of weird petulance that could undermine her strong advocacy.
Legal Times | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
The new chief Republican counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote a blog post last month in which he linked same-sex marriage to pedophilia, a...
William Bradley | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment
Star Trek's message, focusing on a future of diversity, teamwork, and technology, appropriately used -- is especially attuned to the Obama era.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media
Ben Smith reports on a joint appearance by opposing campaign gurus Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, who gave the students of the University of Delawar...
William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
It's been a strange week for the Republican Party, with noisy events pushing the old-time religion, a speech urging a new moderation, and back-to-the-future reactions to Obama's friendly gestures to Chavez.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
While it is great to see people like Schmidt so dramatically shift their positions on such a hot-button political issue as gay marriage, we should all clearly realize see this for what it is: political ambulance chasing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
Speaking publicly for one of the first times since the end of the presidential campaign, John McCain's campaign manager Steve Schmidt painted a dire p...
CNN | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
Steve Schmidt, a key architect of John McCain's presidential campaign, is making his first public return to Washington a bold one. Schmidt will use a...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
Steve Schmidt, Sen. John McCain's chief strategist during the presidential campaign, said in a recent interview with the Washington Blade that he supp...
William Bradley | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Whitman, pushing policies that resonate on the far right of American politics even as some doubt her sincerity, has her work cut out for her in winning the governorship of blue state California.
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
Ramesh Ponnuru at the National Review notes that a number of Republican heavyweights are hyping Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as the party's future, as ...
Erik Ose | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
With the post-election analysis season almost over, it's worth taking one final look at some of the characters who ensured President-elect Obama would make it to the White House.
Aemilia Scott | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
To keep us from making some unhealthy choices in the future, presidential campaigns need to be read with the eye of the consumer.
E. A. Hanks | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
They way I see it, the GOP has two paths it can take. One leads to a sustainable future, the other will land them somewhere between Neve Cambell's career and stacks of left over Cool Runnings VHS tapes.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Steve Schmidt, McCain's top strategist, talks about the final day of the campaign: He's [McCain's] been working very hard over the last 100 days of ...
John McQuaid | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
His campaign seems based on one idea alone: because of who he is -- not what he has done as a senator, not what he wants to do as president, but who he is -- John McCain should be president.
Michael Shaw | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...
NY Times | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain woke Thursday morning to what has become a fairly common greeting in these tough last weeks of his campaign. A raft of polls showi...
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics