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Longtime GOP Strategist Steve Schmidt Joins The Democratic Party
- Thread starter PoliTalker
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He ran McCain's campaign. You don't keep track of Repubs either. He has long been seen as the brains of the republican party. I understand why you did not know that. Obviously not your field of interest. He is intelligent, knows history and politics.
Obama and Trump for me
Yeah, voting for trump....that is a weird one. Whatever I think about Reagan today, a vote for Reagan could at least be justified. He had a pretty decent resume to be considered a viable president (governor and union leader), and more importantly unlike Trump, he was open to compromise, and he could be a decent person.
I never liked Reagan, but he was a genius compared to Trump.
Reagan reminded me of another 'charismatic' leader. 'Everybody's Grandfather'.
His Policies were ...
"Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness"
https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ro..._legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/
"As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations"
In hindsight, I find little to like about Reagan, but nobody is close to being as terrible as Trump. Ron Reagan Junior apparently said his dad would think Trump is despicable.
I agree with Ron.
I was 18 when I voted for Reagan, and what I liked about him was he seemed to me at the time more aggressivly anti-communist than Carter. That was a legacy of my father's influence and my family's anti-Soviet communism, and pro-Soviet dissident cultural disposition.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
oh of course.....brains of the Republican Party.....ran McCain's campaign.........won two terms for the guy, right?......and now he's left for the left?.......brilliant man......I remember how much you loved him when he picked Palin for VP.....
Yeah. That would make sense.
This is what I remember about the asshole:
"What happened to California's free tuition? A history of fees and budget issues"
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/...story-of-fees-and-budget-issues/103-465128027
"1960: The Master Plan for Higher Education in California maintains that tuition at University of California and state colleges should be free, but that fees are necessary to help cover non-instructional costs. “The two governing boards reaffirm the long established principle that state colleges and the University of California shall be free to all residents of the state.”
--->1966: Ronald Reagan assumed office of Governor of California and changed the course of the state’s higher education system. In his eight years, he cut state funding for college and universities and laid the foundation for a tuition-based system."
Thanks, Cypress. Free Education (like Free Health Care) is Communism. Keep up the Good Work.
cawacko
Well-known member
He was a long time Republican strategist, ran some major campaigns etc. A couple of years ago he left the Republican Party and then obviously he was one of main people behind the Lincoln Project. The Lincoln Project was one big grift. I'm a lifelong Republican and I didn't vote for Trump in either '16 or '20 and I want nothing to do with the Lincoln Project. Look at their ads and everything they put out. It had nothing to do with conservative principles or policy. It was strictly anti-Trump and getting rid of Congressional Republicans. They hid behind the 'dissatisfied Republican' façade which clearly b.s. and him becoming a Democrat just proves it.
I understand PoliTalker's mindset here. He doesn't see Schmidt the person, he see's somebody who was a Republican and now is a Democrat and it's validation of his political views. But that narrative leaves out who Schmidt is.
There are others who have left the Republican Party. That is their choice and they can do as they please. But Steve Schmidt being held up as some principled conservative who has left the party is a false narrative.
ROFL @ compromise. Dems live in fantasyland.. MCSLAWBER is a former Republican turned Dem as well
You guy are fanatics, like most converts.
as to compromise when did Pelosi or ANY Dem EVER preach compromise with Trump?
Like I said...fantasyland..
christiefan915
Catalyst
Okay, I can agree with some of this but not that the Lincoln Project was one big grift. It shone a light on trump and his corrupt cronies, not all repubs.
I voted for Reagan in his second election. The elder Bush once. Otherwise, Dems.
I have never voted for Nancy Pelosi in my life.
Dems genuinely wanted to compromise with him on a major infrastructure bill, but Trump was too lazy to get it to the end zone, and congressional Republicans are generally loathe to spend money on huge infrastructure bills.
cawacko
Well-known member
Yeah. That would make sense.
This is what I remember about the asshole:
"What happened to California's free tuition? A history of fees and budget issues"
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/...story-of-fees-and-budget-issues/103-465128027
"1960: The Master Plan for Higher Education in California maintains that tuition at University of California and state colleges should be free, but that fees are necessary to help cover non-instructional costs. “The two governing boards reaffirm the long established principle that state colleges and the University of California shall be free to all residents of the state.”
--->1966: Ronald Reagan assumed office of Governor of California and changed the course of the state’s higher education system. In his eight years, he cut state funding for college and universities and laid the foundation for a tuition-based system."
Thanks, Cypress. Free Education (like Free Health Care) is Communism. Keep up the Good Work.
In 1960 who went to college? Not nearly as many people as today. It was mostly kids from well to do white families. If your goal was to keep it that way then maybe you could have kept tuition close to free. But it wasn't scalable once attendance started growing.