Sometimes Dick Morris seems reasonable, and then he comes out with something like this, and you remember what he really is.
Posted on 10/12/2005 5:13:55 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 7:12 a.m. EDT Dick Morris: Condi's the GOP's Next Eisenhower
Top political strategist Dick Morris said Tuesday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could win the GOP's 2008 presidential nod much the same way Gen. Dwight Eisenhower did in 1952.
"I think what's going to happen is that all over the country - people who see [Condi's] qualifications or are entranced by the job she's doing as Secretary of State and who are scared to death of the other one [Hillary], are going to get together and set up Condi clubs in their localities," Morris told WOR Radio's Bob Grant.
Explaining the central premise of his new book "Condi vs Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race," Morris said the pro-Rice groups will be able to "field their own [convention] delegate slates" who will remain officially uncommitted, "but in fact will be for Condi."
"I think that those delegate slates, particularly in Iowa, are going to start winning." said Morris. "And that's going to blow up the Republican nominating process and create an irresistible momentum for Condi."
"Dwight Eisenhower did the exact same thing," Morris told Grant. "Eisenhower stayed as commander-in-chief of NATO, he didn't campaign, announced two weeks before the Republican convention, won the primaries as a write-in candidate and beat Bob Taft for the nomination."
Morris said that while Rice's unique charisma is likely to spark a grass roots campaign, her probable opponent, Hillary Clinton, is running on borrowed DNA.
"I liked Bill Clinton. I think he was a good president," he told Grant. "I'm proud that I helped reelect him. But I have never liked Hillary Clinton.
"It's one thing to say I liked Bobby Kennedy and Jack Kennedy but I don't like Teddy. At least there's DNA there - they're related."
But Morris noted: "There's no genetic material between Bill and Hillary Clinton. And in many ways they're opposites."
Morris ticked off the contradictions.
"Bill is a genuine warm person - Hillary is not.
"Bill is tremendously intelligent. Hillary is about average. She flunked the D.C. bar [exam], for example.
"Bill is creative and innovative. Hillary does it by rote. "Hillary Clinton would be Richard Nixon in Democratic clothing," Morris told Grant.
Morris is just a huckster selling books.
"There's no genetic material between Bill and Hillary Clinton..."
Hmmmm.
Dick is Delusional.
Why not just vote Democrat?? Then they could openly nominate activist judges to the court, saving us conservatives a lot of aggravation.
Would Condi want to run? I never heard anyone mention her desires.
He may be delusional, but sometimes he's right.
Sometimes Dick Morris seems reasonable, and then he comes out with something like this, and you remember what he really is.
Anytime this mole starts touting one of ours you better check for the silverware.
Actually, she has been asked this question.
To date, her answer has always been emphatic - "I'm not interested"
Much to soon
2008 is 3 years away
Condoleeza Reich will never get my vote after appeasing Hamas and slamming our ally Israel. She can stick the Road Map where the sun don't shine. She will never be President.
I see no stars on her shoulders.
Let the games begin, looks like 2008 promises to be an interesting race.
Is the good ole boy's club era coming to an end with Women running for President?
Is the new TV show Commander In Chief an indication of what it would be like to have a Woman President?
The Democratic Party should be brought up on RICO charges, disbanded, and replaced by two new parties. A "Socialist Party of America" (their core constituency) and an "American Labor Party" (their funding base). At least the latter party might tend to take a "water's edge" approach to foreign policy and help the rest of us get on with protecting the country.
" and you remember what he really is. "
What's wrong with feet ? I can think of far worse things to suck on .
I agree with you. I think Condi is head and shoulders above the rest of the 'Pubbie field.
And she describes herself as a "Second Amendment Absolutist", to boot. That gets my vote, right there...
The feet are just my standard Morris tag. I was referring to the fact that he is all proud of himself for foisting Bill Clinton on us.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, but only because I like to have a lot of friends...
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