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...private, Rove speaks regularly with the McCain campaign, where his former protégé Steve Schmidt is now the manager. He's also dialed in at the Republican National Committee, run by Mike Duncan, another former aide. And he still lunches two or three times a month with President Bush...
...access to his old employers and peers makes his job easier, but it also carries risks. His peanut butter and honey sandwiches with Bush give Rove White House access, but reinforce the public perception of a shared fate - something the new Rove needs to shake. The rise of Schmidt and the ensuing Roveian attacks on Obama have also increased the ease with which Obama can link McCain to the tactics of his predecessor. That's fine if McCain wins, but "it'll be interesting to see what happens to Rove's reputation and how much people are willing to listen...
...wondering if you have stories of meeting both [Mark] Salter and [Steve] Schmidt and deciding that they could be close advisers...
...there anything about Schmidt's council that you thought stood out last year that would make you promote him through the ranks...
That's why the McCain team decided to go for broke. Under the direction of top political strategist Steve Schmidt, the campaign's new goal is to tag Obama as nothing more than an untested politician with considerable rhetorical talents while touting McCain as the proven independent reformer voters already know. Schmidt, who took over the day-to-day operation of the campaign on July 2, is a bulldog of a man, broad and bald, with a take-no-prisoners style. A veteran of the 2004 Bush campaign and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election effort, Schmidt ordered...