He gets more love than Avenatti…….

Steve’s gone ‘round the bend, I’m afraid. He’s blathering about 2 empty chairs in Schultz boardroom.

“One for the customer. The other for the employees.”

I can appreciate that people enjoyed him going hard at Trump. He did have some very artful take downs. It seemed however, that people were too willing to jump on the "Schmidt is the most courageous person..." train, forgetting that he was never attacking conservatism. He was attacking Trump for pulling the veneer from conservatism. Trump is greedy, corrupt, and bigoted, which seem to be the central tenets of conservatism. Schmidt never changed, he just wants Trump to stop showing the ugliness and go back to the time where Reagan dressed the ugliness up with the style of a B list actor. Trump is a D list celebrity at best.

SMH

I appreciated his anti-Trump comments since the election. But Steve Schmidt is not a Democrat and he still believes in right wing political ideals. No doubt Schultz is paying him well.

We shouldn’t be surprised.

as any of us.

She and Rosie remain good friends and both fired from the View apparently for disparaging Donald...

I too count today as my “unfriend” day with Steve.

For all his understanding of the American political landscape, his purposeful denial of the our two party reality is beyond me.

The phrase that comes to mind is “never expect a man to understand that for which he is paid to not understand”.

I thought Steve had some standards. Oops.

I always assumed Schmidt and Rick Wilson etc. would return to RWNJ politics and we’d all go back to hating each other. What i didn’t anticipate is the mutation actually occurring DURING the orange anus’ reign. Steve sounded rational for a while, in the early days of Trump, but he’s sounding nuttier than squirrel shit right now.

He's been hit over and over on Twitter to switch parties, each time he returns a curt "no."

Right now, he's a needed voice during the Trump catastrophe. If he returns to his "roots" after this...assuming there is a party for him to return to...that's his business. If he becomes a pro-Republican voice, I'll simply stop listening. My guess is that will take at least several election cycles for that to happen. Ryan is gone, hopefully in 2020 McConnell will be gone as well. Problem is that even if the turtle is voted out, you still have Mulvaney, Meadows and McCarthy straining at the bit to be king of the far-far-far right hill.

If Schultz wakes up and smells his own coffee and we have a two-party election without another Jill Stein to gum up the works, Trump could be gone. The caveat in that is that he will pull every voter suppression trick in the book before Election Day 2020 arrives.

I’ve never for one minute believed when Trump was over we’ll all lock arms and everyone will become a progressive. There will always be the other side.

He can't be serious about Schultz as a viable candidate.

Oh, wait, Schmitd tried to give us SARAH PALIN.

Never mind. Carry on.

The Wallace segment was regulatory. He was hit from all sides but it wasn't as if he was defending his position with passion. It was more like he stood firm on ridiculous prepared talking points, such as Schultz "promising he won't be a spoiler," and the sheer ridiculousness of that statement is that he has NO CONTROL over that. It's all in voter perception. The ONLY way for him to NOT be a spoiler is to scrap his plans, because if he drops out before he gets in, he damned sure won't get enough write-in votes to matter.

to the days when I disliked him intensely. He is basically trying to get a moderate candidate in the race because his beloved GOP went nutso. No thanks Stevie. We lived through Bernie and Jill, and we can't afford a repeat.

told you so

Link to tweet

Otherwise, he's just another Republican.

But he's a standard issue "country club" conservative, pro-business, low taxes, fewer regulations and not so fixated on wedge issues like abortions. Schmidt does believe in government and governing, though. He did his job trying to get his talking points out there, but Wallace has played that game, too, and she did a decent job pushing back.

Jason Johnson had the best retort, he said he didn't even know any Dems or why any Dems worry about Schultz because he will attract "never Trumpers like you (Schmidt)", not Democratic voters.

Maybe 3 or 4 years ago, someone like Schultz was more in line with the mood in America, but in 2019, he's out of step. Americans don't want more of the same which is basically what Schultz is trying to sell. I think Schultz has 0 charisma and has already showed disdain for everyone not in his income class by his comments on cutting entitlements and not even being able to guess the cost of a box a cereal, something work-a-day families with kids know very well. I expect him to deflate as soon as his book tour (I wouldn't be surprised if his candidacy isn't a ploy to increase sales) is over.