It sounds like Steve Schmidt is basically on board with my advice to treat the Tea Party element in the Republican Party like you’d treat a drug addict in your family.
Former John McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt says he has “deep regret” for helping to create a “freak show” wing of the Republican Party when he had a hand in bringing former McCain running mate Sarah Palin to the national stage.
Schmidt said Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball” it’s time for the GOP to stand up to the “asininity” embodied by Palin and others.“For the last couple of years, we’ve had this wing of the party running roughshod over the rest of the party. Tossing out terms like RINO saying we’re going to purge, you know, the moderates out of the party,” Schmidt said. “We’ve lost five U.S. Senate seats over the last two election cycles. And fundamentally we need Republicans, whether they’re running for president, whether they’re in the leadership of the Congress, to stand up against a lot of this asininity.”
“Hardball” host Chris Matthews asked Schmidt what he thought of the “Frankenstein monster” he created in Palin and Cruz.
“You finally you saw it with Ted Cruz. Maybe he was the one that who’s got a bridge too far,” Schmidt said. “Maybe we’ll start seeing our elected leaders stop being intimidated by this nonsense, have the nerve, have the guts to stand up and … to fight to take conservatism’s good name back from the freak show that’s been running wild for four years and that I have deep regret in my part, certainly, in initiating.”
Basically, we’ve gotten to the point where the Republican Party can no longer function because it is infected with a disease, and it’s now impacting the entire country because the Democrats can’t make laws by themselves. And we can’t cower in fear anymore. We can’t tiptoe around the problem and try to avoid antagonizing the patient. We have to treat this like a sickness and apply what we know about the recovery process to the GOP’s problem. You can take the addict analogy as far as you want, but I’m not kidding about the need to stop coddling these morons. It’s time to get right up in their face and tell them that not only are they liars but they have grown to believe their own lies. They need help.