Veteran Strategist Steve Schmidt: Mitt Romney Faces a ‘Character Test’

[DonViejo]

Veteran Strategist Steve Schmidt: Mitt Romney Faces a ‘Character Test’

by Howard Kurtz Sep 20, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

The nominee’s ‘very bad run,’ stretching back to the convention ‘moment of the empty chair,’ is mostly self-inflicted, says GOP veteran Steve Schmidt. The McCain strategist tells Howard Kurtz how Romney can revive his struggling campaign.

Steve Schmidt knows something about trying to steer a presidential campaign out of the ditch when much of the world is saying the wheels have come off.

n Schmidt’s case, helping to draft Sarah Palin to push John McCain over the finish line led to years of regret, as well as an unexpected measure of fame when he was sympathetically portrayed by Woody Harrelson in Game Change. So I thought Schmidt, having lost the 2008 contest to Barack Obama, would have a singular vantage point on the current Republican nominee’s mounting woes.


“When you’re inside a presidential campaign, it’s always important to keep perspective that the race is fundamentally a character test,” he tells me on a scratchy cell phone while driving through the mountains of Northern California. “Mitt Romney is being tested right now.”

In spades.

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[KurtNYC]

1. what is this crap from the Daily Beast?

RW strategists talking BS about how poor Romney is facing a "character test" -- as if the guy is 12 years old or something.

We know all we need to know about Romney's character. It is not a fixable problem nor one I am interested in fixing and any article written from that angle is Rafalca dump.

The real character test will be how Mitt deals with losing big and having spent a big chunk of his Cayman's stash on trying to get into a position where he could pull his vulture capitalist shit on this great country.

[Maeve]

2. Does he actually HAVE a character? Nope. Fail. eom