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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Fri May 11, 2018, 03:46 PM May 2018

Steve Schmidt could not have said it better...

“We’ve listened to this guy for many, many years in this country on his moral high horse,”. “Assaulting the dignity of gay people, across the board. His moral preening is famous throughout the land.”He is the most obsequious of all of Trump’s cultists in the cabinet,” “We have never seen such slobbering servility by a high government official in this country than we do with Mike Pence and Donald Trump. It is amazing.”


http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/387228-gop-strategist-pence-shows-slobbering-servility-to-trump

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Steve Schmidt could not have said it better... (Original Post) SummerSnow May 2018 OP
Steve has been on a rant today HipChick May 2018 #1
He's been repenting and doing penance for Palin. Ligyron May 2018 #16
Schmidt said a ton and it was 100% on point. nt oasis May 2018 #2
This is one of the first times I wish I had OldHippieChick May 2018 #3
What I want to see is the next flash card. eom Frustratedlady May 2018 #4
Pence, looks just like something/one out of a horror flick. n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #5
Same reaction here. Such zentrum May 2018 #17
Steve is really hot under the collar. Right now he BigmanPigman May 2018 #6
i love Steve Schmidt .... i do. I love Nicole Wallace also. trueblue2007 May 2018 #7
Atonement Kurt V. May 2018 #8
pence would be gleeful to be preznit by default. pansypoo53219 May 2018 #9
remind you of anyone? bringthePaine May 2018 #10
Tee hee, pazzyanne May 2018 #13
Just like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza world wide wally May 2018 #11
Can't You Just See It? Leith May 2018 #12
Every time I see Pence, I keep thinking of the song "Turn if Off" NewJeffCT May 2018 #14
The evangelicals are going to happily lead Trump to slaughter askyagerz May 2018 #15
Wasn't that one righteous rant he let fly about Pence? calimary May 2018 #18
These days, it's hard to believe that there used to be "good Republicans." maddiemom May 2018 #19
KICK Cha May 2018 #20

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
3. This is one of the first times I wish I had
Fri May 11, 2018, 03:56 PM
May 2018

a twitter account so I could send kudos his way. How eloquent. He speaks for so many.

BigmanPigman

(51,562 posts)
6. Steve is really hot under the collar. Right now he
Fri May 11, 2018, 04:07 PM
May 2018

is going after the admin that is putting down McCain and not apologizing for their remarks.

trueblue2007

(17,189 posts)
7. i love Steve Schmidt .... i do. I love Nicole Wallace also.
Fri May 11, 2018, 04:17 PM
May 2018

I know they WERE (they both have said they left the GOP party), Republican's but their comments about GOP's in the past 2 years have been RIGHT on.

Decent honorable people.

Leith

(7,807 posts)
12. Can't You Just See It?
Fri May 11, 2018, 04:59 PM
May 2018

Pence walks in carrying a CD player. He turns it on and it plays You Are So Beautiful to Me over and over as Pence approaches on his knees with his eyes down and his hands folded. He has a tear of rapturous joy in his eye.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
14. Every time I see Pence, I keep thinking of the song "Turn if Off"
Fri May 11, 2018, 05:21 PM
May 2018

from The Book of Mormon, only instead of the original "having really strange feelings for Steve", it's Pence singing, "having really strange feelings for Trump"

here is the song with lyrics:



And, the original recording:






askyagerz

(776 posts)
15. The evangelicals are going to happily lead Trump to slaughter
Fri May 11, 2018, 05:30 PM
May 2018

When the right time comes. Then they will say see this great thing we did to this evil man who let the devil in his soul to trick all of us. We sacrificed him to the impeachment gods and are now being rewarded with Pence! Oh great us...

calimary

(81,085 posts)
18. Wasn't that one righteous rant he let fly about Pence?
Fri May 11, 2018, 06:29 PM
May 2018

Now THAT, for all you deplorables out there, is “tellin’ it like it is.” What YOU think is “tellin’ it like it is” - is actually an open confession to how shitty and racist the prevailing opinion on that side is. It says a mouthful about who too many of our fellow Americans actually think and feel. Their dirty little secret, of which they’re secretly so proud - now that trump has given them free license to speak and agree with this shot and embrace their inner shithead. He let them out of the closet and the attic and told them it was okay to feel and think like that. I think that’s why they’re so enthralled by him and stand by him so proudly and unapologetically.

They should be apologizing for those Neanderthal opinions. Instead, trump has validated them and urged them farther into along. It should be shameful and disgraceful to profess such things. Such behavior should be discouraged. Such behavior and attitudes should NOT be encouraged, rewarded, or reinforced. But trump IS doing all those things. And they’re lapping it up like a cat with a bowl of cream.

Would you raise your kids that way???

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
19. These days, it's hard to believe that there used to be "good Republicans."
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:04 PM
May 2018

I grew up in a VERY Republican town, where my mom was one of the few active Democrats. My dad was a closet Democrat in the general election voting booth and pretty quiet politically, and registered Republican because he really thought it was necessary due to his job. Mom greeted and was on the platform locally with JFK when he barnstormed in 1960. I was in charge of recruiting "Kennedy Girls" in the junior high; no problem, because everyone wanted the hat and sash, including the senior high girls. Of course their parents were mostly voting for Nixon. I remember my mom was very irritated because the local bigwigs, all rushed Kennedy in front of the less prestigious locals that she knew were Democrats. Steve Schmidt is one of the rare "good Republicans" these days. John McCain may have been among the last decent candidates ( and maybe Romney: both seem decent) in his party to run for the highest office. Are there still non "deplorable" Republicans who aren't crawling on the bottom of the "swamp" to support the "drain the swamp" Trump?

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