LOL!! Dick Morris On The Factor

Fox News | 12-11-03 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

Morris just predicted Bush landslide "Dukakis style" next year over Dean. Says "Dean will be blasted next year by the Bush team on 2 issues

1. Because he is a liberal

2. Because he is a flake

Vintage Morris...says Bush has it locked up.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

1. Because he is a liberal

2. Because he is a flake

Somebody explain to me the difference, please?

There is such a thing as a harmless Flake.

However, a Liberal is a danger to everyone.

[My Favorite Headache]

Yeah Ed Koch has really turned it around.

[My Favorite Headache]

Leave Bill Kristol off that list! He rules!

[liberty or death]

There are alot of people in this country who are clueless and once they get wind of "Dean the Flamethrower", they'll vote him in for entertainment value.
Bush barely made it last time and Gore couldnt win his own state. There is a sea change in this country right now and its all pleasure seeking. Its swallowing our will to do whats right and fight for it. We are in a tailspin and half the country doesnt give a crap anymore.

[Coop]

Vintage Morris...says Bush has it locked up.

Ugh! That's awful news. Morris is consitent with his political predictions - consistently wrong.

[cajungirl]

Paws off G Will, I adore him. I will give you Safire in exchange for two to be named later!!!

[John123]

Dick Morris also predicted that Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't win in California. I believe that he made a bet with Bill O'Reilly. I guess Bill is having lobsters on Morris. :)

[pgkdan]

But.....how the HELL could he have signed CFR?

...and the Kennedy Education Bill, and $15 Billion to African dictators, and the Medicare Reform/Prescription Drug Entitlement. Man...thank goodness he's a Conservative, can you imagine if he were a lib?

[.38sw]

I missed that, but I think I remember Morris saying that Crooooze would likely win.

[John123]

Also on the Factor tonight: Bill interviewed a woman from the Wall Street Journal, regarding the current flu epidemic, and she blamed Hillary Clinton for the shortage of vaccines. She said it was Hillary's "Socialized" vaccine program (during Clinton admin) that made the pharmecutical companies quit producing vaccines. The woman from the WSJ said there are now only 2 companies in the USA producing vaccines.

By socializing the medicine, the drug companies make very little profit.

The second reason of the shortage of companies making the vacine is that lawyers are suing them. The companies don't want the risk with very little profit so they exit the vacine market.

[John123]

Dean could be useful to us. And Gore is unelectable in 2008 but Hillary could win in 2008. Anything that hurts her now is a good thiing.

Actually, Dick Morris brought up that he thinks the reason Gore is supporting Dean is because Dean will most likely lose to Bush. Dick said that Gore did it to indirectly announce that he is re-entering politics and will run against Hillary in 2008.

IMHO, I think if Dean wins the Democratic nomination, he can keep away the political cash of the DNC away from the Clintons.

[OESY]

Leave Bill Kristol off that list! He rules!

I tried to restrain myself but I can't.

First, I've gotten Kristol's The Weekly Standard from its beginning and make a point to read every Morris column published in the NY Post, so I've come to different conclusion.

Second, Morris used to work for Lott and Helms, his columns consistently favor Republican principles and carry a decidedly anti-Clinton-Gore flavor (as an insider who knows), and he is the most astute observer of the political scene out there. Though he worked for Clinton (and had a few problems), he's got a record of successful campaigns at least as good as anyone else in the business, despite the miscall on California. I for one am happy to have him on our side.

Third, in contrast, Kristol is the non-Democrat pundit most pessimistic about Bush reelection chances (see latest essay), has called for the resignations of Rumsfeld, Powell, Wolfowitz and others in the Bush cabinet, supported McCain over Bush -- and talks fondly of Lieberman whenever he gets a chance, and properly deserves much of the blame as campaign manager for producing the Quayle debacle.

Forth, any liberal-flake list like the one above which does not recognize Spector, Snowe, Chaffee, Grassley, Hatch and several other Republicans lacks credibility.

Fifth, we can agree to disagree.

[TedsGarage]

You are right. Anyone who thinks an obscure Democratic governor from a small state can't unseat a Republican president should talk to Gerald Ford or George H.W. Bush. Six months ago, I thought Dean was a washed-up politician on an ego trip. The man should not be underestimated.

[George W. Bush]

Morris is feeling out a new position. Just a day or so back, he was saying much the same but also laying out how Dean could win.

At the same time, he was predicting that Hillary would be Dean's VP to forestall Gore's plans for '08.

At that point, my eyes glazed over.

Morris is entertaining and talks a good game. But much like Karl Rove, his professional talents have always been greatly overestimated. I've lost count of how many times his predictions have been completely wrong.

[George W. Bush]

Dean is dangerous. He has fanatical supporters. Bush is not all that popular. His support is soft. Dean is no McGovern. Far too many people, including talk show hosts like Laura Ingraham think it will be a cake walk for Bush. I don't think so.

Excellent points. I normally say the same things and have warned here at FR about Dean for years now. Most people aren't aware that he started doing his foundation work about ten years back, even more lead time than Carter and Clinton took. He's travelled the country, building up his contacts and name recognition among the party for the last decade. His actual politics aside, he's a far more serious and better prepared candidate than either Clinton or Carter.

As far as Bush having soft support, one might point out that Bush's support in industrial battleground states is weak and that evangelical turnout may decline even further. So even in a strong market, low jobs performance and failure to tow the line on social conservatism could cost Bush states that he needs badly.

What we usually fail to notice is exactly how limp support for any of the Dim candidates is from the black voting blocs. This could be a key factor. Personally, I can't recall seeing a set of Dim primary candidates whose public appearances and whose staff looked so white since, well, like the Sixties. Maybe not even then. Heck, for all I know, even Sharpton has only white staff. I think the main reason Gore is so valuable to Dean is to be able to corral black support for Howie by assembling endorsements of liberal black leaders, something Howie can't do for himself, so far his only real weakness as a Dim candidate.

I think the press going on and on about Dean as the outsider who is too far to the Left and will be defeated is a fake-out. This will allow them to run up his name recognition endlessly and then present him as the authentic underdog and voice of the people once he gets the nomination. Shades of Clinton indeed. But I think Dean is their favorite and has been all along. They seem to exploit almost every story in a way to give Howie that magical 'Teflon coating'. But he doesn't have Teflon. He's got weak/stupid/bland opponents and a majority of the establishment press helping his campaign. And after the Clinton years, why would we expect anything else?

I think we're going to have another unconventional election. Something unexpected will be the deciding factor, not the usual stuff.

[I got the rope]

Lieberman can't get the nomination, you see he is a Jew, and there are far more Jew haters today on the left, than on the right.

BIG TIME!

[Capt. Tom]

SADLY, Many of the "Leaders" in our past History NEVER LEARNED that Our Culture regards "History" as a "Minimally Helpful Guide" to Current Events.

Hi Doc.
Our short attention span and short memory are why we don't learn from the past.

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[Jimmyclyde]

.....OR Rasputin.

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[squidly]

My hygiene's not so bad.:)

[Doc On The Bay]

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Doc