Steve Schmidt wins my heart today:

[madaboutharry]

On MSNBC with Nicole Wallace: "Sarah Sanders didn't get kicked out of a restaurant because she lies everyday. That didn't happen until they started putting 3 year olds in cages. Too bad on them."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I just heard that!

[gibraltar72]

2. There are some things up with some people will not put!

[pangaia]

7. which, you forgot 'which'

up with which...

come on dude, if you are going to be gramattkiccallly corrrect.. be correct...


Sorry, haven;t had my mojito yet today...

[jayschool2013]

20. George Will, baseball and grammar

Generally an asshat, I know, but he knows baseball. Pity he's a Cubs fan.

Anyway, he tells this story about former Kansas City Royal Rookie of the Year Lou Piniella (yeah, he also played for some team in New York):

Once when the Yankees' Lou Piniella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call, Piniella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

[colorado_ufo]

21. I think originally from Churchill.

[jayschool2013]

22. Churchill was a baseball fan? (I kid)

Do you the context for Churchill saying it?

Thanks.

[colorado_ufo]

36. I am sure Google could give a better explanation, but

I remember my English teacher telling the story of how Winston Churchill, the great orator, once ended a sentence with a preposition. After having received criticism for this small diversion from formal English, he responded, tongue in cheek: "This is the sort of nonsense up with which I shall not put!"

I thought I should edit this to reveal that the above mentioned teacher told the story in the very early 1960s.

[mikeysnot]

26. You mean the 2016 World Series Champion Chicago Cubs?

I still like the ring to that.... Besides it is the only thing he has going for him. As far as his criticism of R's fuck him too little too late to that game.

[jayschool2013]

30. Congrats

Awesome three World Series the last three years: Royals' first win in 30 years, Cubs' first win in 636 years, 'Stros first win ever.

[pangaia]

28. HA HA... PERFECTO !!!

Wait, are you calling me an asshole?
never thought of that...

[jayschool2013]

31. Will's the asshat

You? You're on this board, so likely not.

[pangaia]

32. Joking...

[jayschool2013]

33. Thank you

[Upthevibe]

35. That's such a great joke...

I don't know where it originated but it's quite funny..

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. He called Trump "the supernova of ignorance."

[ailsagirl]

9. Love it!!

[NastyRiffraff]

34. "the supernova of ignorance."

George Will for the win

[Trek4Truth]

4. This is America's RED LINE...and THEIR STAIN. nt

[JI7]

5. I love those 2

Right now we need people telling it like it is and they are doing it. There is no both sides bs and needing to balance and apologize.

And it probably helps that they were republicans since people can't just dismiss them as liberals.

Similar to laura Bush writing the op ed.

[Cha]

6. Thank You, Steve Schmidt!

[MLAA]

8. I like what he says these days....but I have a hard time forgetting his role in selecting Palin.

If I remember correctly, he was the McCain advisor that dug up and pushed for Palin as VP. Please, DUers correct me If I am misremembering.

[madaboutharry]

10. You remember correctly.

Steve Schmidt failed to have Palin properly vetted. He fucked up badly. He has also taken responsibility for it and accepts the blame for foisting her on America.

I am of the mindset that forgiveness is due when someone takes responsibility for a mistake and apologizes for it.

Steve Schmidt has integrity. His leaving the republican party demonstrates that.

[MLAA]

13. Thanks for the update Madaboutharry, I had not seen him take responsibility for Palin and the

subsequent consequences of that very poor decision that helped pave the way for the mess we are in today.

[Volaris]

27. I agree, and that's the penance I was waiting for.

And now that Ita Done, he sounds like he's not gonna pull any more punches with them.
'Too bad on them' lol

[LakeArenal]

18. Me,too

He’s also said things about Hillary Clinton’s that ring in my ear.

[world wide wally]

11. Two words for Sara Sanders...

Golden corral

[spooky3]

14. LOL!

[DesertRat]

17. Omg

[panader0]

12. MSNBC kept labeling him as a "Republican Strategist"

He's a Democrat now.

[DesertRat]

15. True

They should put "former" R. strategist.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. Independent more likely

nt

[appalachiablue]

25. Like George Will who's claimed he's become more Libertarian.

[JI7]

37. I think technically it's correct becsuse that's what he was

Now he is a commentator but I'm pretty sure not working as strategist for any campaign.

[BlueJac]

19. I love it!

[bdamomma]

23. Good for him

We need more of those repig defectors to speak out.

[The Wizard]

24. Our strongest voices

are former Republicans. Democrats for some reason fear expressing themselves in direct clear language. Maybe they fear the Republican media. But no matter what they say or position they take, the Republican media will hammer them. They may as well speak the unvarnished truth. No equivocating.

[Honeycombe8]

29. I love Steve Schmidt! It's even harder for Repubs to stand against Trump's policies...

and behavior. He, like Joe Scaroborough, has left the Repub Party, for now. This can't have been easy. But in the end, he'll have shown the kind of person he is. He won't have his name linked to children in cages.