But Morris also helped Jesse Helms win reelection in the closest campaign of his carrer. Morris worked for Trent Lott and several other Republicans.
Morris has a trade. He is a campaing pollster who uses his poll results to craft campaigns. That is his business. Just as car mechanics work for both Republicans and Democrats, Dick Morris is a campaign consultant who works for the people that hire him.
His work has had no more ideology than a surgon. Morris works for the people that hire him. He gets them elected. He has a very good track record.
He is now in his second career as columnist. His job is not to inform or educate, it is to attract readers, and keep them reading his column. That has nothing to do with educating the public or the disemination of information. It is all about getting an audience and selling papers.
If Hitler owned a kitten, he'd still be Hitler. Morris's help for Helms and Lott just proves he's a whore, he just goes for whomever will pay the highest price. Can you imagine Lee Atwater or Robert Teeter ever working for a Rat, no matter how much money was involved? Those men had principles, I'll even say that about Carville, even though you can guess what I think about his principles.
Just as car mechanics work for both Republicans and Democrats, Dick Morris is a campaign consultant who works for the people that hire him.
There's a difference between an ordinary worker, say for instance, a newspaper employee who accepts campaign ads, or who works at a hotel for a convention, and the kind of strategist who plots daily how to make a liar and cheat look like a respectable man. Its the same distinction made at the Nuremburg Trials.
It is all about getting an audience and selling papers.
Well, I'll give you that, but it is also about Dick Morris trying to get someone to pat him on the back once more. He'll dish up whatever it takes to get the feeling that people approve of him again. Most of us regard his analysis as deeply suspect, we know his hate for Hillary colors a lot of his political discussion. However, just because we share that disdain for the shrew, doesn't mean that Morris is telling us an insider's truth, it just means that he has a willing audience every time he wants to bash Hillary.
Like the horoscope printed in my daily newspaper, it might be entertaining, but I sure wouldn't guide my life by it!