Steve Schmidt was McCain's lead strategist in 2008 and was instrumental in the decision to select a then-relatively unknown Sarah Palin as his running mate. But hindsight is 20/20: speaking on MSNBC's Morning Joe early Monday about Game Change—the HBO film about the McCain campaign based on the Mark Halperin/John Heilemann book—Schmidt admitted that choosing Palin was a terrible decision for the country:
“When a result happens that puts someone who is not prepared to be president on the ticket, that’s a bad result. I think the notion of Sarah Palin being President of the United States is something that frightens me, frankly. And I played a part in that. And played a part in that because we were fueled by ambition to win. And I think that ambition to win, to victory is what drives people in politics. It is a chess match in a lot of ways, but that result in how we got there is something that troubles me a lot.”
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