MSNBC's Nicole Wallace mentioned tonight that she had worked for candidate Sarah Palin.

[milestogo]

I thought she was smarter than that.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Smarter than mentioning it or smarter than doing it?

She was sorta pressed into it, along with Steve Schmidt, but the McCain campaign. She also made no bones about the fact she was not happy doing it and thought her candidate was a moron.

[milestogo]

7. Oh, I didn't know that.

I wouldn't think less of her for being on the McCain campaign. But it was odd to hear Palin mentioned in the same discussion as Klobuchar. Palin was a joke.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Really? You should watch the movie

[empedocles]

31. Right.

[aeromanKC]

56. My favorite part was near the end in the hotel hallway with Schmidt.

When Nicole told him I just couldn't do it. I didn't vote for him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

58. Will need to rewatch. I think the whole thing was just

A huge backfire on them. Didn't realize the depth.

[kentuck]

57. Absolutely!

I guess some people have not seen the movie?

[Delmette2.0]

67. What movie?

I probably heard about it and dismissed it because I had enough of Palin. Now I think I could watch it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

69. Game Change. Movie about campaign. Excellent

history of 2008 election. The book is extremely well written

[Delmette2.0]

75. Thank you. I'll find it.

[cilla4progress]

77. John Heileman

and Mark Halperin wrote the book the film is based on...

[rzemanfl]

2. Ex-Republican is why I can never trust her. n/t

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[a kennedy]

16. I have wondered that as well.......

She was a very high up Republican......I wonder is and when a “normal” republican gets back in power......does she turn back....

[obamanut2012]

40. lol that makes zero sense

Read Game Change, watch Game Change. Wallace hated Plain, hated her, and actually voted for Obama, and basically left the GOP over all of it.

[rzemanfl]

44. I can't trust her because once a Republican. I should have made that clear. n/t

[wyldwolf]

63. kinda like... Elizabeth Warren...

... and a teenage Hillary Clinton?

[rzemanfl]

66. Neither of them worked for an administration as far as I know.

I may have voted for a Republican Register of Deeds or Register in Probate sometime in the previous century.

[wyldwolf]

68. ah, I new caveat. So the goal post now is 'worked for an administration.'

btw, Warren left the Republican party in 1996 or 1998, depending on who you ask. Just 10-12 years before Nicole Wallace worked in the administration.

"last century" is hardly descriptive of a middle aged woman who promoted the merits of free markets and supported trickle down economics.

But... ok.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

70. Wasn't Dipshit once a Dem?

[wyldwolf]

71. Trump? Being from NY, he donated and hobnobbed with Dems

So, yeah, that probably qualifies.

[rzemanfl]

79. I have now moved the goalpost to possibly having voted for a Republican for

Register of Deeds or Register in Probate sometime in one's adult life. Now I can no longer trust myself. I keep hiding my wallet from myself, but then I always find it. Whatever will I do?

[FarPoint]

54. OMG....

I feel old now....I am stunned that this information is history....

[tblue37]

64. She didn't vote at all. nt

[malaise]

61. and a Bush insider

She still adores her war criminal friends - I will never trust her

[Laura PourMeADrink]

73. You are so ❤️ less. Lol

[malaise]

74. Hehehehhehe

[Dem4Life1102]

81. Do you feel the same way about Warren and Bloomberg?

Both ex-Republicans.

[rzemanfl]

82. Please see my exchange with wyldwolf above.

My tolerance for Republicans was reduced to zero by the 2000 Presidential Election. These are extraordinary times. Defeating Drumpf and retaking the Senate are the preeminent goals. We are going to need any help we can get, even from former Republicans. There's no reason not to be wary and keep an eye on them though.

[Dem4Life1102]

83. Bloomberg supported Bush in 2004

[rzemanfl]

84. I will vote for whomever the Democratic nominee is.

Our cat would be a better President than Drumpf. I may not be happy about the nominee but these are extraordinary times.

[Dem4Life1102]

85. Fair enough

But there are many far better candidates for the nomination.

[Me.]

3. She Was On McCains Presidential Campaign With Steve Schmidt

and she was assigned to Palin. Apparently it was quite an ordeal and she later wrote a book about it. Palin was rather vicious when talking about Nicolle.

[a kennedy]

17. Really.........ummmmmm let me re-think my opinion.

[Me.]

21. I Believe She Has Gone Through A Lot Of Changes Since

and some days she is the only one of the pundits making sense. She at least is hobest ebough to call bs when it appears.

[empedocles]

33. Why we need pragmatists, not purists, in these times.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

45. I hear from friends that's true, I just can't get past grating voice.

[Happy Hoosier]

49. She has.

She has said repeatedly that it took Trump to make her reevaluate her views and her loyalty to the Republican party. I identify with her since I had a "Road to Jerusalem" moment in my early twenties.

[Me.]

59. ...

[RandySF]

4. She worked with Mike Schmidt on the McCain 2008 campaign.

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Wallace was stuck managing Palin.

[greenjar_01]

14. Was she the back up third baseman for the Phillies?

[PCIntern]

22. She can go hard to her left

When required....

[madinmaryland]

80. LOL!

[PJMcK]

28. You mean Steve Schmidt, I think (n/t)

[katusha]

5. she was on McCain '08 with Steve Schmidt

didn't work FOR Palin as much as with Palin, and she has never hid her disdain for her.

[Music Man]

6. Yeah, that's not a particular secret.

Nicole Wallace is a long-time Republican and was an adviser on John McCain's campaign. To her credit, she seems to have reformed a lot, and she apparently had misgivings about Palin (notably conveyed in Game Change). Legend has it she didn't vote in 2008. Crazy, right?

[3catwoman3]

10. She did not vote.

Couldn’t bring herself to pull the lever, so to speak, with Backwoods Barbie on the ticket.

[jberryhill]

27. Well, the alternative was a negro for whom she could of course not bring herself to vote

So she did the “noble” thing by not voting.

And that is somehow supposed to show character.

[PJMcK]

30. Well said (n/t)

[snowybirdie]

38. You are So right

Like her show and she says the things we DUers support, BUT, deep down, where do her real sympathies lie? If a "normal" Republican took office, where would she go?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. Agree. I think if there was a good, decent, fiscally

Conservative, socially liberal Republican to ever exist again, she, Schmidt, and Joe S. would all support them. But hell if that happened our whole world would have healed.

[Devilsun]

8. Sarah cured Nicole of conservatism 🙄

[milestogo]

9. Well, that's a good thing.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

11. She did not vote

In that election.

[obamanut2012]

41. Scuttlebutt is she did -- for Obama

[Cousin Dupree]

12. Nicole is pretty smart. Sarah is as dumb as a box of rocks. I'll bet it was quite an ordeal for

Nicole to try to jam some smarts into that blockhead. I think at this point that Nicole may be a recovering repuglican.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Well, Nicole is smarter than Sarah...

is that good enough?

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Low Bar

My pets are all smarter than Palin!

[Wounded Bear]

50. I will not argue that point...

[DesertRat]

15. If you get a chance watch Game Change sometime, it's an HBO movie

Sarah Paulsen was stellar as Nicolle Wallace as was Julianne Moore as Palin. Here's a clip:

[eissa]

19. One of my favorite films

And the reason why I cut Nicole and Steve so much slack. I may not agree with them on everything politically, but they’re decent people who try to do the right thing.

[jberryhill]

29. Movies are great

After spending all their effort trying to fuck this country over, it is good to have someone else make them out to be heroes.

[LanternWaste]

46. I'd pretend the movie created heroes out of them too.

It's not correct, but damn the accuracy and full speed ahead... our confirmation biases don't care about truth.

[Hekate]

18. Nicolle was working for McCain, but was assigned to bring Wasilla Barbie up to speed. The experience

...was so horrible that Nicolle Wallace, lifelong Republican, did not vote for John McCain. She could not countenance Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Read Game Change. Or see the movie.

Anyway, as of Trump's election, Nicolle is no longer a Republican, either. None of this journey is a secret.

[milestogo]

25. thanks, I will check it out

I never heard of the movie or the book.

[empedocles]

32. Book was very good also

[dalton99a]

55. +1

[octoberlib]

24. She's also said numerous times she's going to vote for every single Democrat

on the ballot in 2020. She is smarter than that.

[Mike Nelson]

26. It's never been a secret...

... she's mentioned it several times. Fortunately, she was smarter than that... Nicole would have had an easier road to a FOX contract, but she did the correct thing.

[madaboutharry]

34. She was campaign chair along with Steve Schmidt for McCain.

McCain put her in the job of working with Palin after McCain chose Palin for the VP slot.

Nicolle came to the conclusion that Palin was so ignorant and dangerous that on election day Nicolle DID NOT VOTE.

Nicolle also has said that she was so traumatized by having to work with Palin during the 2008 election that she became so depressed that she required psychiatric care.

[jberryhill]

36. It's good that she could afford that

Imagine how awful it would be if she had not gotten away with enough money.

But, yes, she was so overwrought that she did not vote for McCain. Of course, she did not vote for that negro candidate, but that’s understandable.

Her poor fragile psyche.

[madaboutharry]

37. You are really off base in your criticism here.

I find over the top attacks on people who try to do the right thing off putting. Nicolle Wallace is an honest person. She has left the republican party.

[jberryhill]

39. Good for her

I can’t believe how emotionally invested people get in wealthy people on TV.

I think she’ll do just fine without my fawning.

Hot tip - Nicole Wallace doesn’t give a shit what your opinion is either.

[LanternWaste]

48. You appear more invested in her than anyone else on the thread.

Investment as you know, can be either from good will or simply sour grapes.

But I get it.. indicting others for the very things we do is often a requirement when our own standards quickly and conveniently shift.

[samnsara]

35. Didnt you watch Game Change? She was played by Sarah Paulson. GREAT movie!!!

.. I watch it every time I see it on tv.

[cynatnite]

42. Nicole is nowhere near the repub she was back then...

Don't judge her harshly for that.

[mahina]

43. If you have Amazon Prime, Game Change is on

[Rider3]

51. She worked for McCain,

...thus, Palin. I was taken aback at that, too. She was in W's white house, though. That screams a lot of information. I think Trump made a lot of people rethink their politics. Some, not all (unfortunately).

[Generic Brad]

52. Everyone has to come from somewhere

People grow. Change. Evolve.

Are we supposed to enforce cancel culture on anyone who once worked for someone we don't like or made an inappropriate blog comment 15 years ago? We would have no one left to rapture for our liberal purity heaven.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

60. Thank you. People do change.

Or become enlightened. As has been pointed out elsewhere, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren were once Republicans, too. Some go to the dark side. Trump used to be a Democrat. The only thing that’s relevant is where they are now.

[mainstreetonce]

53. I once heard Nicole tell an interesting story.

The question of how does the 25 amendment works came up.
Nicole said she had studied it because if McCain had won they were going to have to use it on Palin.

After McCain chose Palin ,his team learned she was mentally ill.

[Greybnk48]

62. She worked on the McCain Campaign.

No big deal.

[sueunderh]

65. Never forget "pals around with terrorists"

I like Wallace's show. I make a point to watch it at 4 p.m. when I can. But I will never forget that she handed the despicable smear "pals around with terrorists" to Sarah Palin.

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/21044/

[HarlanPepper]

72. When you have a job and are assigned a task you do it

Or at least most people do. Did you bother to investigate further? Spoiler alert: They hated each other.

[underthematrix]

76. there's a movie about Nicole's work with Palin.

GAME CHANGE - it is an amazing movie. Palin was an crazy as a bed bug.

[RhodeIslandOne]

78. She was made Klondike Kardashian's handler

And hated her fucking guts.