Dick Morris' Mistake

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | January 19, 2004 | Allan Wall

[Main Street]

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[Wait4Truth]

Oh, goodie! Another anti-Bush thread! I'm sure all your buddies will be here soon to support you.

[Main Street]

Actually, it's anti-Morris, and anti-Bush's immigration policy, not anti-Bush. I voted for Bush. And I probably will again. But I don't agree with him on this issue. I'm not anti-Bush.

Understand??

Or do you believe that if you don't agree with a person on one issue, you are therefore against that person as a whole??

Because I don't agree with that.

[MissouriForBush]

Bush has made a horrible mistake with his illegal immigration plan. The sad thing is that, in the long run, his unwillingness to tackle illegal immigration will end up completely undoing all the good he has done in other areas.

If we do not control our own borders and insist on rewarding lawbreakers, our military and intelligence efforts elsewhere are a complete waste of time.

[David Isaac]

You are correct, it is definately an anti-Morris piece instead of anti-Bush. Nobody could be more anti-Bush than Bush himself. People have horribly short memories, not remembering the '92 election, where the only one who torpedoed Bush Sr., was Bush Sr.

Jr. has cleaned up only one of his father's major screw-ups, finishing off Saddam. But he has balanced that with his stance on immigration and his pursuing of the Clinton criminal conspiracy (you guessed it, sarcasm).

[ClintonBeGone]

Dick Morris is legendary for shrewdness and political acumen.

Allan Wall, what a joke. Morris is shrewd except when his article doesn't mesh with Wall's narrow minded agenda.

[ClintonBeGone]

But he has balanced that with his stance on immigration

Most average people yawn at the President's program fro undocumented workers. For those that hate immigrants, they should be happy. The social security proposal will encourage them to return home after working here. There is something in his plan for everyone to like.

[Siamese Princess]

Great piece. I read Dick Morris' fantasy piece in last Thursday's New York Post and thought of posting it here but didn't have time. While this article is critical of Morris, Pres. Bush probably agrees with Morris.

[Miss Marple]

If this were an anti-Morris thread, you would have posted a mocking cartoon of Morris. Instead, we see the clever little cartoon of President Bush.

Those of you who don't like this PROPOSAL ( and it is not a fait accompli) should make the effort to propose changes to the President's proposal, both here and to members of Congress.

It is necessary to face the fact that deporting all illegals is physically and economically impossible, as well as no doubt destroying the Republican party for the next generation. The media would crucify us, and public opinion would be pushed to support the illegals.

So let us have some positive discussion of alternatives and less of the insults to the President and his supporters.

[David Isaac]

I doubt that there are many who actually hate illegals, anymore than they hate women because of feminism, or Arabs because of what terrorists do. Hopefully, hatred is directed to where it belongs, the enablers and panderers.

[ClintonBeGone]

I doubt that there are many who actually hate illegals

You must be new to these immigration threads. Why I think Sabertooth has some 10 point manifesto that involves mining the border and sterilings their pets!

[ClintonBeGone]

sterilings

sterilizing

[David Isaac]

Had the Republican Party acted for Republican Party principles for the lastfew decades, they would face no danger of destroying themselves. It is the Democratic Party which has been (or so it sould have been) destroying itself, with all that they stood for. All the GOP had to do was point out what the slimeballs have done, instead of trying to outdo them.

Either party, that would have done what is right for America and its people, could have totally destroyed the other party. Anyone that thinks the declines we have suffered in morality (in business, politics, human relationships, etc.), education (which has suffered enormously), and even national defense, could possibly be the result of one plitical party or another (and their are plenty of people who blame one of the parties), would have to be at best, delusional.

[Zipporah]

I don't trust Morris .. what is the saying about leopards not changing their spots?

[WhiteGuy]

Actually, it's anti-Morris, and anti-Bush's immigration policy, not anti-Bush.


The proposal itself is anti-American.

This is where the focus needs to be placed.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

I don't think that anyone should criticize the Presidnet about the illegal immigration issue until they go to the U.S./Mexico border for a day either in Texas, California or Arizona. Rather than hurl hand grenades at the POTUS for trying to address the problem, offer a VIABLE alternative.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Actually, Morris was a political advisor to Republicans long before he worked for Clinton.

[Zipporah]

Yikes.. that makes it worse. He's a political 'hooker'.

[Thebaddog]

It doesn't take a political genius or a lame critic to understand the strategy of creating uncertainty in the mind of the opponents. If you take one in ten hispanic voter away from the democrats, the strategy worked. The middle elects the president and not the fringes.

Morris and Wall are just selling ink.

[NCLaw441]

Bush's proposal is not law or enacted policy, is it? I see this as a political move. Unlike campaign finance reform (which WAS a mistake, but very likely one that will hurt the dems more than the GOP), there is little chance that Bush's proposal will be enacted. Thus, President Bush will perhaps gain among Hispanic voters (at least some of them) and gain points with Vicente Fox. And dems will have to again, say how much they hate Bush, while offering, again, no alternatives of their own, further exposing the only tenet of the democrats: "We hate republicans."