I Do Think Mark Schmitt Is a Very Smart Person

So it is interesting how far he could have been wrong:

Mark Schmitt, November 17, 2010:

The Audacity of Patience: The massive resistance Republicans posed to Clinton in 1993 is impossible to imagine today. The Republican coalition is utterly shattered, and the angry white Palin wing of the party, for all its visibility, is a minority even within a minority. What's in it for a moderate Republican senator like Richard Lugar of Indiana (who tacitly endorsed Obama), Arlen Specter of...