Steve Schmidt continues to woo AOC. Should she respond or team up?

[egbertowillies]

Steve Schmidt may be serious about teaming up with AOC to prevent a second Trump-like coup attempt. Should she engage?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/14/2002078/-Steve-Schmidt-continues-to-woo-AOC-Should-she-respond-or-team-up

[elleng]

1. Team up,

2 smart people with democratic goals.

[LuvLoogie]

2. Has he become a Democrat?

Team up in what respect? Why doesn't he ask Nancy Pelosi?

AOC should only meet with him on her turf.

[womanofthehills]

20. He's not asking Pelosi because he wants to attract younger voters

AOC is our superstar. Lincoln Project knows the GOP has been taken over by the crazies and everyone must band together to fight.

[comradebillyboy]

3. I'll just bite my tongue on this one...

[Big Blue Marble]

4. Only if she understands that the biggest threat to our lives is fascism. N/T

[elleng]

5. She surely understands that,

as does he.

[brush]

6. They're polar opposites politically. Both probably need to run the other way.

I love to hear him talk about trump and cowardly republicans. It seems however, that he's drawn to attractive, outspoken women politicians. Remember he picked Sarah Palin and the results were disastrous.

[OnDoutside]

7. He believes in free and fair elections, I've heard him say that he expects

there to be some kind of a National Health service within the next 10 years, being currently about the only major developed country without one, and he believes that climate change is real.

Surely that's the basis for some sort of talks?

[brush]

8. Unnnn...maybe. I wonder how her supporters on the left will feel...

about her teaming up with a conservative? I imagine hearing a lot of howls from stage left.

[OnDoutside]

9. And this is something she obviously needs to tease out, but I am reminded that she moved pretty

quickly from her support of Bernie, once the primary race became clear that Biden was going to win, much to the disgust of the Bernie Bros. That gives me hope that AOC realizes that she needs to move somewhat towards the center, if she really wants to make her mark.

[brush]

17. She does need to somehow get away from the democratic socialist label...

she put on herself.

[oswaldactedalone]

10. Simple

Team up. Granted, Schmidt is a former Republican but he’s right on all points in this case.

[markbark]

11. Remember Maxim 29:

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. Nothing more or less.

....or, if you want to "team up" with Mr. Schmidt, use a quote from Saint Reagan: "Trust but verify"

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Wisdom and raw talent have made many a marriage

Don't see why these two bright people can't make a successful stage show. You don't learn nothing by putting your head in the sand.

[Escurumbele]

13. Yes, team up. Let us all remember that the greatest President republicans ever had was TR

Theodore Roosevelt, he was a progressive. He was what any politician should strive to be, not only as a politician but as a human being.

I have wondered why republicans salivate over Reagan, who was a bad actor, a terrible president, and I have to give him credit for completing the corruption of the republican party, lets face it, the republican party has always been corrupt.

But I understand now that I am reading Roosevelt's biography why republicans don't embrace him. Roosevelt despised corruption, he despised hypocrites, he understood about the corruption and the danger the 1% represented to the country, he was a true progressive, all traits that the new republican party cannot represent. Roosevelt also hated ignorant and stupid people, he would have punched the lights out of not only the buffoon trump, but Jordan, McConnell and more. Roosevelt was also a brave man, he fought a war for the liberation of Cuba, he was a scholar, writing many books on nature, history, politics.

Anyway, republicans cannot admire someone like Roosevelt because it will shame them to find that they are not worthy of even licking his boots.

So...to the topic at hand...yes, AOC should embrace some of what Schmidt proposes but she needs to stay true to herself, to not allow anyone to derail her, she needs to keep her principles intact. I believe she has the potential to become president one day, and she needs to stay on course. Yes, she needs to learn because at the end of the day it all amounts to ones ability to negotiate.

[CentralMass]

14. I wouldn't rush into that alliance too quickly. His resume leaves something to be desired.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Schmidt

"Schmidt joined the Bush administration as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2004, he was a member of the senior strategic planning group, led by White House adviser Karl Rove, that ran President George W. Bush's re-election campaign; Schmidt oversaw the reelection "war room".[19] In 2005 and 2006, he was the White House strategist responsible for the U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Samuel Alito[25] and Chief Justice John Roberts.[19]"

[appalachiablue]

22. +1 Amen

[Evergreen Emerald]

15. Yes. We need to band together to avoid the continued attempt at a coup

They have not succeeded this time, but they are working at it. We need to be vigilant.

[TryLogic]

16. Single issue. Stop fascism. Protect democracy. Stop the FR party.

FR = fascist religious republicans

[TryLogic]

19. Better idea: RFA party (Religious Fascists of America)

Maybe this label would get their attention.

[llashram]

18. I reserve my comments

on this attempt at an unholy alliance between Justice Democrats and Republicans like this Smidt fellow...

[womanofthehills]

21. I love the way Rick Wilson & Molly Jung Fast work together

Two bright people appreciating the intelligence of each other - while being funny too. I love the end of their podcasts when they pick their “fuck that person.” Problem is, I don’t see AOC having that much extra time. She is super active in a wonderful way.