Y’know, I never really understood Haig’s comments until I took a military history course in college. The prof was retired Air Force, and explained to the class one day exactly what Al Haig was doing. The way he explained it, since Reagan was out of action because of the shooting (obviously), and Bush was out of the country at the moment, we were momentarily leaderless in terms of the nuclear deterrent. Haig went on camera not to reassure the American people, but to make it clear to Moscow that we were, in fact, still quite capable of responding to any effort to exploit the situation.
As for Morris, I don’t have an issue with the poll numbers he’s citing. I just have noticed he tends to be overly optimistic at times and oversells his arguments.
BTW, I wasn’t the one who called him a toesucker in this thread. Billhilly’s got me mixed up with another poster.