Republican strategist and former John McCain consultant Steve Schmidt has joined the team helping Texas Gov. Rick Perry with the strategy around his indictment, POLITICO has learned.
Schmidt is the latest addition to a team that Perry has been expanding with legal hands.
“We’re bringing in the best of the best to help us handle this … this is serious, we’ve got to handle it with the appropriate measures,” Perry spokesman Jeff Miller said. Schmidt did not respond to an email seeking comment.
You know I don't think Schmidt has actually worked for a Republican since he started going on talk shows and discussing the 2008 campaign. OH, and helping John Heilemann and Mark Halperin write "Game Change."
My first thought on this is that Perry must be quite desperate to reach out to somebody who is persona non grata within the Republican establishment.
My second thought is that this move is going to make a certain Perry supporter and half term Governor take off her wig and stomp on it.
