{"id":1116,"date":"2012-11-04T22:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T22:39:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-01-13T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:14:38","slug":"steve-schmidt-another-republican-lackey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2012\/11\/04\/steve-schmidt-another-republican-lackey\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Schmidt Another Republican Lackey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/franklycurious.com\/media\/1\/20121105-steveschmidt.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"188\" alt=\"Steve Schmidt\" title=\"Steve Schmidt\" align=\"left\" class=\"left\" \/>I just saw Steve Schmidt on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26315908\/#49688730\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a><\/i>. They were talking about the internals of the campaign. Mostly, I thought it was a lot of nonsense. Schmidt claims to know a lot of things that I don&#8217;t think he does. But I can give him the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Then they discussed the polls. Schmidt claimed that the Romney campaign really believes they are going to win on Tuesday. This is a ridiculous claim. If Romney felt he was really going to win on Tuesday, he wouldn&#8217;t be changing his whole campaign strategy with two days until the election to try for a long shot win in Pennsylvania where Obama is consistently up by 3% to 8%.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the show, all I could think was, &#8220;This guy is an MSNBC <i>analyst?!<\/i>&#8221; Because he wasn&#8217;t acting like an analyst. He was acting like a Romney surrogate. I&#8217;ve noticed over the last year that the closer we get to the election, the more Schmidt has become indistinguishable from an RNC lackey.<\/p>\n<p>See if you agree. I think MSNBC needs to find someone new. 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They were talking about the internals of the campaign. Mostly, I thought it was a lot of nonsense. Schmidt claims to know a lot of things that I don&#8217;t think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2012\/11\/04\/steve-schmidt-another-republican-lackey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Steve Schmidt Another Republican Lackey at Frankly Curious<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2012\/11\/04\/steve-schmidt-another-republican-lackey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steve Schmidt Another Republican Lackey at Frankly Curious\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just saw Steve Schmidt on The Rachel Maddow Show. 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