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Dick Morris: Look out, here comes Al (& Nixon’s ’68 Comeback Offers Clues for Gore)
The Hill ^ | 2/22/06 | Dick Morris / Roger Stone

Posted on 02/22/2006 5:46:58 AM PST by Mr. Brightside

Look Out, Here Comes Al

Dick Morris

February 22, 2006

Gore may be a man whose time has come in his party. It was he who warned of climate change and predicted its consequences. Hurricane Katrina was just a fulfillment of the prophesies Gore wrote about in his late-1980s book Earth in the Balance.

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History indicates that candidates who won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College have all come back to win revenge in subsequent elections. Andrew Jackson, cheated in 1824, won in 1828. Grover Cleveland, cheated in 1888, triumphed in 1892.

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Could Al beat Hillary? If Mrs. Clinton persists in her support of the Iraq war, he could. But never count on Hillary losing an election over a principle. It’s a bad bet. If she moves to the left on the war, as she already shows signs of doing, she would preempt Gore and Kerry and use her tremendous lead in fundraising and ex-officio delegates to cruise to the nomination.

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Gore has three things going for him: A perception that he was robbed of the White House and Hillary’s possible stubbornness in continuing to back the war.

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The third thing? The weather. As the evidence of global climate change impresses everyone who doesn’t work at the White House, Gore looks more and more like a man whose time may have come.

Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algoreisnotmyprez; dickheaddis
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To: VRWCmember

Good points!


21 posted on 02/22/2006 6:04:18 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: Mr. Brightside
"Gore has three things going for him:"


1) The Democrats are like a person hanging on a outcropping atop the Grand Canyon by their fingernails, begging for Divine intervention.

2) When the American public looks at the "nine dwarves" the Democrat Party fielded in the 2004 election, Al Gore looks somewhat sane.

And 3) There are plenty of morons in the MSM that will portray AL Gore as electable, and wacky Americans that will think it possible.


And to think there is over two more years of this tripe to come.






22 posted on 02/22/2006 6:04:54 AM PST by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Mr. Brightside

The "cathartic" value of Six Crises, may have been because the events that shaped Nixon's core politics were real. The Hiss case and his HUAC experience were classically formative. He knew he was right and the rejection of the truth of this case was naturally confusing. Gore has no such formative experience. His political and personal belief foundation is rife with psycho-babble and errant thinking. He is basically a crazy person. If he "comes back", there will be nothing "Nixonian" about it. The two have nothing in common from the standpoint of stature.


23 posted on 02/22/2006 6:05:32 AM PST by n230099
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To: Hatteras
A certifiable lack of sanity has never precluded a run for the White House.

Remember most of the core RAT base is nuts, so Al Gore should be a shoe in!

25 posted on 02/22/2006 6:06:24 AM PST by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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To: LibertarianInExile

Morris occasionally has some astute observations (donning flame-retardant suit!), but his problem is that he's always writing to a deadline. Maybe if he just wrote when he was truly inspired, rather than just grind out his columns and collect a paycheck, he'd up his average - some.

But like the weather forecasters, there's relatively little downside for political analysts if they are wrong in their predictions . . .


26 posted on 02/22/2006 6:07:13 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: Hatteras

I wish Dick Morris would go back to doing something useful like sucking toes and spare us all from his wild political theories.


27 posted on 02/22/2006 6:07:43 AM PST by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
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To: Hatteras
In his wilderness years, (Gore) has found himself. He is more self-effacing, funnier, cooler, easier-going

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I'm with you. Gore IS nuts! And everyone knows it but these two.

28 posted on 02/22/2006 6:08:38 AM PST by Mr. Brightside (I know what I like.)
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To: Shimmer128

I heard several meteorologists say that these hurricanes are not from global warming but from a normal cycle that keeps repeating.


29 posted on 02/22/2006 6:13:24 AM PST by imskylark
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To: Mr. Brightside
Big difference........

Nixon was a patriot

Gore is a traitor and a bum!

30 posted on 02/22/2006 6:15:03 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
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To: VRWCmember

"Gore tried to have the rules for counting votes changed in order to alter the results of the election in Florida."

And his lawyers had military absentee ballots tossed out on hyper-technicalities.

Don't bother running Al. You'll never sit in the oval office, even if elected.


31 posted on 02/22/2006 6:17:48 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Mr. Brightside
It all sounds good to me. If not Al, it will be some other anti war nut. But I believe there will be someone who will get the anti war vote in the primaries and it won't be Hillary.

I don't see the republicans abandoning the war but the real dems have and as much as the left loves Hill she voted for and although I expect her to claim she only did because she was fooled ... well you see where we are going.

32 posted on 02/22/2006 6:19:14 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Mr. Brightside
It was he who warned of climate change and predicted its consequences

So told in a NY speech on a day with heavy snow & 4 degree weather.

WHAT A TOOL

33 posted on 02/22/2006 6:19:40 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Wow! This Al Gore sycophant revises history in such a way that it stuns the senses. Throwing so many lies at you in such a short time must be a new tactic to over whelm those who live in reality and not Al Gore's promise land.
34 posted on 02/22/2006 6:19:48 AM PST by avant_garde
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To: Mr. Brightside; Allegra; peacebaby
Listen Al and let me make this perfectly clear! I didn't climb out the grave just to whistle "Dixie." So, first, announce to the press that you will be making an important statement. Get that Micheal Moore to film the whole thing. Have the press meet you on top of the Empire State Building. Then when they have all assembled and are at the peak of anticipation, take a deep breath, grab Micheal Moore and jump over the rail with him, you sorry heap of dung!

Geeze, Dick! And I thought I was hard on the Dems...

Well, I'm not a good shot like you...

35 posted on 02/22/2006 6:20:46 AM PST by Bender2 (Redid my FR Homepage just for ya'll... Now, Vote Republican and vote often)
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To: Bender2

Very funny! Thanks for the laughs this morning!


36 posted on 02/22/2006 6:25:44 AM PST by peacebaby (I think - therefore I am, I think... .)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Would the American public be foolish (stupid) enough to vote for algore on the basis of one issue - global warming?


37 posted on 02/22/2006 6:26:41 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Former SAC Trained Killer)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Gore has three things going for him? Let me add a fourth.

Gore constantly shows he's too clever-by-half to be as dyed-in-the-wool evil as the witch.

His ilk of treason is born out of a need to get funds for his political runs, while Hitlery's treason would purposely sell us all out so she and Bill could rule the world.

Run, Al, Run! ...and be sure to let Bob Schrum help you!   It'll be great to see all that Democrat money go *poof* in the primary season and to hear all the otherwise-unaired Demo-laundry be used to slime both these two leviathans!

HF

38 posted on 02/22/2006 6:27:01 AM PST by holden (holden on'a'na truth, de whole truth, 'n nuttin' but de truth)
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To: Mr. Brightside; Bender2

"Gore withdrew gracefully? "

Gore doesn't do anything gracefully.

Somebody needs to look up the definition of the word "gracefully."


39 posted on 02/22/2006 6:27:55 AM PST by peacebaby (I think - therefore I am, I think... .)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Why do people try to rewrite History. We all saw Al Gore kicking and Screamning right down to the last. He is still whining and moaning. Even his daughter is still whining.
No one has seen poor Tipper since the election, have they put her away somewhere?


40 posted on 02/22/2006 6:29:23 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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