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HILLARY'S pollster Mark Penn recently claimed that she was leading the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in all states in all the polls. Not so fast, Mark. The latest Rasmussen poll, concluded on April 26, shows Sen. Barack Obama ahead of Sen. Clinton for the first time, albeit by the slim margin of 32-30. Two weeks ago, Rasmussen had the race tied; before that, he had her constantly in the lead. Almost all the national polls show Clinton's lead dwindling, and most show her with only a single-digit lead over Obama. The sense of Hillary's inevitability as the Democratic...

In the case of the Republican presidential primary, there are two men who aren’t there: former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.). But their presence — or absence — haunts the GOP primary nonetheless. Until they make their respective moves to enter or foreswear entering the primaries, they will freeze a critical segment of conservative Republicans who are withholding their affections from other suitors, waiting for Mr. Right to arrive. In fact, most polls indicate that these two gents account for between 15 and 20 percent of the vote in trial Republican primary heats. Not since...

The big problem in finding a conservative challenger to run for the GOP nomination is not the absence of a genuine constituency, nor is it even enthusiasm for ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Right-wingers who would pass the litmus test — guys like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, California Rep. Duncan Hunter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, or even ex-Tennessee Sen. and famous actor Fred Thompson — face the need to climb over the political corpses of former Speaker New Gingrich (Ga.) and ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to...

Former Bill Clinton aide Dick Morris is bringing out a documentary in September to expose Hillary Clinton as a "phony." Morris told the American Spectator Breakfast that the documentary will present Hillary's conflicting statements side-by-side and will portray her disingenuous statements and misrepresentations alongside the facts. The documentary will also depict Bill Clinton's involvement in controversial matters ranging from his pardons as president to his work for Dubai. "You have to get to the fundamental fact of her phoniness, her lack of credibility." Morris said. "That she is pretending to be something she is not. I think you can best...

Morris: Hillary will be ‘worst president we’ve ever seen’ Dick Morris is no fan of Sen. Hillary Clinton, having spent much of the past decade writing and speaking out against her. And he took his always-quotable opinions to the offices of Americans for Tax Reform Wednesday at a breakfast sponsored by The American Spectator. Dick’s greatest hits: » Although Barack Obama is an “exciting phenomenon,” he is the equivalent of “political stem cells: You can make him into any tissue you want.” » “It is in the national interest that, if there is a Democratic president, that it not be...

Dick Morris, longtime former aide to Bill Clinton, is soliciting funds to finance an expose - documentary film of Senator Hillary Clinton who announced last week her intention to run for president in 2008. In a letter sent to Republican mailing lists this week, Morris asks for contributions of $25 to $100 to help in his efforts. "If you liked how the Swift Boat Veterans turned the tide against John Kerry, you understand how a top Clinton aide can turn the tables and stop a Clinton style liberal from becoming the next president of the United States."

Political analyst Dick Morris used a baseball analogy out of season to summarize what he considers the bleak prospects for Republican victory in the 2008 presidential election. "I think you’ll see one of the minor leaguers win it [the GOP nomination],” Morris told Fox News Channel. Morris thinks the leading Republican candidates – Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich – are "too flawed” to win the hearts and votes of conservatives in the early primaries. "The top four candidates for the Republican nomination can’t win,” Morris said. "Rudy Giuliani, John McCain . . . Romney with all...

Is there something cyclical, but nevertheless extraordinary, happening in American politics these days? Are we moving from a period of partisan confrontation and division, to one that values consensus and seeks more unity among our public figures? Otherwise, how can we account for the unusual persistence with which moderates like Rudy Guiliani and Senator John McCain are holding their large leads in the Republican primary electorate? Or, the surprising surge of perceived-moderate Senator Barack Obama into second place in the Democratic field? The conservative right is trailing ignominiously in the polls for the Republican nomination, while Hillary is tied with...

The Democrats seem to have taken over the House. That means that, regardless how the cliff-hanger races in the Senate turn out, the key question is whether the Republican leaders will shed their arrogance and understand that they need to listen to the American people. Even if recounts and razor-thin margins deliver the Senate into Republican hands by the narrowest of margins, 2006 is a major defeat for the GOP and only a fool would deny it. In Iraq, obviously, America is delivering a message that if we keep shedding blood to battle for democracy in Iraq, the GOP will...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g-HxmWoyq0 http://www.citizensunited.org/news/Read.aspx?ID=38 Washington, D.C. — Citizens United, a prominent Washington-based conservative grassroots advocacy organization and its affiliated Political Victory Fund are unveiling a major campaign advertisement targeting Democrats for their staunch opposition to the NSA Wiretap program which authorizes the interception of international communications of people with known links to terrorist groups. The ad, which was produced by political strategist Dick Morris and Citizens United president David Bossie, premiered on FOX News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes and will be seen nationwide on FOX News Channel in the days before the November 7th mid-term elections.

The GOP is [rearranging] "deckchairs on the Titanic," and single women will propel Hillary Clinton to the White House in 2008, says political analyst Dick Morris. Republicans are watching their base shrink dramatically in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, said Morris, appearing on "Your World" with Neil Cavuto. The former Clinton advisor and confidante pointed to a recent Gallup poll that revealed what has happened among church-going whites, whom Morris called "the ultimate GOP base." They are "splitting 47-47 in their vote," he told Cavuto, who said "Then it's a matter of just sitting home [on election day]...

Dick Morris is at it again. Just on Fox, he believes the Dems will take both houses, creating "hell in wheels for Bush and his cabinet," who will, he predicts, spend the next two years under indictment and subpoena. His take is that the Repub base that elected Bush twice will largely sit this one out and those that do vote are more evenly split betweeen Dem and Repub. He also predicts Hillary will win in 08 by "having grown the numerator." In his words, there were 19 million single women in 2000, most of whom did not vote. By...

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN August 2, 2006 -- Sometimes it’s a close question as to whether the leaders of the House are more arrogant or more stupid. The combination of the two is deadly. The arrogance stems from a deep-seated conviction that state-by-state gerrymandering has made it impossible for the Republican Party to lose the majority in the House. The stupidity is demonstrated by their refusal to take the two steps that could give their beleaguered members some kind of political cover as they run for reelection: lobbying reform and a minimum-wage increase. But the arrogance is misplaced....

WILLIAM Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. After his mother remarried, he took the family surname, Clinton. Clinton was a good student. He enjoyed playing the saxophone and even considered a professional musical career. While in high school, a fortuitous meeting with President John Kennedy led him to choose a life of public service.

Just watched Dick Morris on the O' Reilly Factor tonight. He thinks that if Al Gore does decide to run for president in 2008, he can win. I don't think so. Morris bases his opinion on the following rationale: 1. People now link the import of Middle East oil with the empowering of terrorists. 2. The Reagan Democrats who voted for Reagan and Bush in 04 did so because both Republicans promised to cut taxes. They'll vote for Gore...according to Morris...because he'll promise to lower gas prices. 3. He thinks the fact that Gore carried the popular vote in 2000...

This ethnic group, by far the fastest growing in our nation, will likely tip one way or the other as a result of what happens in Washington this year and next. With the Hispanic vote expected to top 20 percent by 2020, the resulting collective decision of the Latino community could be the most important factor in the future of America's political parties. Some Republicans feel squeezed between the demands of their right-wing base and their desire to appeal to Hispanic voters. But they need not make a choice. They can have their cake and eat it too. Liberals want...

The Moonbats are out tonight and howling! Dick Morris, just on Fox, told Hannity that the reason Cheney didn't immediately notify the Royal Dinosaur White House Press Corps of the accident was 'because he needed a day to sober up first before being questioned.' The Libs are imploding!

The student-loan rip-off is a test of GOP rhetoric Special-interest legislation doesn’t get much more obnoxious than the bill now making its way though Congress to clamp down on students and former students who want to refinance their loans at lower interest rates. They are about to be severely punished for seeking not only an education but a debt-free life afterwards. While homeowners can refinance their mortgages as often as they want and relieve themselves of high-interest debt when rates cycle downward, student and former-student debtors are only permitted to refinance once for the lifetime of the loan! And now...

Normally, disasters such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and such are chances for the president to gain popularity and for his administration to shine. It was the unique and inexplicable inability of the Bush people to understand the magnitude of what they confronted and to respond to it quickly that managed to transform this chance for a big political gain into a monstrous liability. Americans will want to know why the trucks didn’t start rolling when the winds started blowing. And when they quieted, where were the airlifts and evacuations that could have fed and watered thousands and prevented many deaths...

The deal to avert a change in Senate cloture rules is more than just a temporary outbreak of sanity in this highly charged partisan accelerator chamber. It amounts to a transfer of leadership from the polarized, party leaders to the narrow but critical center of the institution. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) still has the corner office, and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) still has the key to the executive washroom, but it is the 14 senators who crafted this deal who now are the people to see in the Senate. Few realized that when the Republicans garnered 55 seats...

The Newsweek magazine story falsely reporting desecration of the Koran by American military interrogators in Guantanamo, Cuba, where terror suspects are being held, is the fourth major false report printed or aired by a highly respected arm of the Anglo-American journalistic establishment in the past year. Each of those inaccurate stories has roiled the political waters and threatened to inflict colossal damage on either President Bush or British Prime Minister Tony Blair and on American and British efforts to defeat terrorists and the regime of Saddam Hussein. It is high time that the American people got the point: The organs...

Couldn't resist posting this. Dick Morris just called George Bush's inaugeration speech one of the 5 greatest ever given. O'Reilly and Morris now agreeing that it was magnificent, but that Bush won't be given a fair shake in the liberal elite media tomorrow. Morris now talking about how it was so inspiring.

Just reported on NBC News

October 9, 2004 -- BUSH is back! The president finally showed the guts, determination and focus that earned him victories in the three debates with Al Gore. He finally did his homework. He focused on his briefing points and mobilized his rhetoric to win the second debate. It was Reagan-Mondale all over again. In the first debate of 1984, Walter Mondale soundly defeated Ronald Reagan, and in the process raised questions about the elderly president's metal acuity. In the first debate of 2004, Kerry's victory raised worries about President Bush's mental acuity. But in the second debate of his re-election...

October 6, 2004 -- LAST night John Edwards went from seeming to be like JFK to emulating Dan Quayle in the space of 90 minutes. Confronted with Dick Cheney's obvious competence, incisive parries to his charges and devastating rebuttal of his phony statistics, Edwards looked like the proverbial deer in the headlights. Normally, vice presidential debates are not significant. But this confrontation should serve President Bush well. With Edwards parroting Sen. John Kerry's line in last week's presidential debate, Cheney gave the answers Bush should have offered but failed to articulate. If the first presidential debate was a contrast of...

Pollster/Consultant Dick Morris says that after the debates, President Bush will have a huge lead in the polls, but Sen. Kerry will be able to turn it around in the final three weeks to make it a contest. He challenged the Kerry strategy of attacking Bush on Iraq, but he says that Kerry will go back to traditional liberial domestic issues to turn the election around. He predicts Bush will win "by a couple of points", but a win is a win.

<p>UNTIL President Bush began his speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention, the goal of the United States' anti-terror policy was perceived by a largely supportive public as a bid to assure safety. With a rhetorical flourish worthy of the great speeches of all time, George W. Bush has transformed the war into a battle for liberty.</p>

From The NEW YORK POST: THE BAGEL CANDIDACY By DICK MORRIS July 30, 2004 -- I LOVED Bill Clinton's speech. I was inspired by John Edwards. Barack Obama thrilled me. Max Cleland made me grow as a person as I heard him . . . And then there was John Kerry. All around him was eloquence but, in the center of the bagel, there was a speech that was a letdown. And did he just tell 140,000 men and women fighting in Iraq that they are there because of a mistake? By insisting that we are in Iraq because we...

THE CENTRAL question facing the John Kerry campaign is whether to tilt left or go down the middle this week at the Democratic national convention in Boston. While American political conventions do not make any important decisions — everything is arranged in advance — they amount to a four-day opportunity to showcase the party programme on prime-time television. Even though the broadcast networks constantly cut back on their coverage of the conventions, cable news channels more than pick up the slack. In 2000 half of all American voters watched more than four hours of convention coverage and a quarter, the...

No, bad start for Kerry Sen. John Kerry’s campaign is obviously falling short. April should have been his best month. More than a hundred U.S. dead in Iraq, Richard Clarke’s damning testimony, atrocities against Iraqi POWs, and our unpopularity in the streets of Iraq should have left President Bush gasping, In early April, he lagged behind Kerry. Now, he leads by three to five points. To grasp why, examine the mosaic of advertising and accusation with which Bush has surrounded Kerry. The GOP’s heavy and constant negative advertising accurately shows Kerry as a liberal who raised taxes and weakened our...

The presidential race seems to have settled into a stalemate as George W. Bush’s negative ads were blunted by the daily reports of American combat deaths in Iraq. While Iraq exploded, voters stopped focusing on whether Sen. John Kerry was too liberal and their attention was riveted on Bush’s quagmire in Iraq. It’s likely that Kerry (D-Mass.) has now acquired a measure of immunity to the Bush attacks, and the president has lost the early opportunity to define Kerry before the Democrat can acquire a hold on half of the nation’s voters. He has to break the tie that most...

HOW 'FLIP-FLOP' KILLS KERRY by Dick Morris March 9, 2004 -- It is increasingly clear that President Bush's line of attack against Kerry will be to describe him as a flip-flopping politician, changing his positions constantly to suit the political needs of the moment. One negative ad, previewed on "Meet the Press," showed an animation of two John Kerry boxers battling one another. The winner? George W. Bush. The obvious goal of the Bush attack is to discredit Kerry and make it hard for anyone to believe in him or anything he says. But this round of flip-flop attacks is...

<p>Dick Morris, columnist and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, says Sen. Hillary Clinton must be John Kerry's running mate this year if she ever hopes to be president herself one day.</p> <p>In a column published in the Hill newspaper, Morris analyzes the history of presidential elections and said it's imperative for the senator from New York to get on the Democratic ticket this year.</p>

Former Clinton White House political guru Dick Morris is urging his Bush administration counterpart Karl Rove to go negative on presidential rival John Kerry hard and fast. "Bush needs to come out of the box with negative commercial after negative commercial," he told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" Tuesday night, after Kerry's nine state sweep locked up the nomination. "I ran with Bill Clinton 14 months of $40 million in advertising," Morris recalled. "Bush is gonna run five months of $150 million of advertising. And in eight weeks, John Kerry is going to be a distant shadow of...

Just as Bush-41 never really focused on crime as his core issue, but won the election by using the lifer furlough policies that sprung Willie Horton from prison for a disastrous weekend, so Bush-43 has discovered in gay marriage a potentially winning issue. While opinions are evolving on this question, most polls still indicate solid majorities opposed to same-sex marriages. Though I personally favor them, voters see gay marriage as an attempt by the homosexual community to spread its lifestyle, and they side with President George W. Bush in opposing same-sex unions. Normally, right-wing constitutional amendments do not make good...

WHY W. MUST BASH KERRY NOW February 18, 2004 -- The 2004 presidential election may be decided in the next two months. For three years, George W. Bush has sought to define himself by his accomplishments as president. Legion though they are, he has only achieved a stalemate: His job approval is only a break-even 48 positive and 48 negative in the most recent Fox News poll. Stalled in his effort to win re-election on his own merits, the president now must turn his attention to his opponent. The Battle of Bush is deadlocked. But the Battle of Kerry has...

Dick Morris: Bush Must Define Kerry or LoseChuck Noe, NewsMax.comFriday, Feb. 20, 2004Find out all the insights in "Off the Record with Dick Morris in Palm Beach" – Click here. PALM BEACH, Fla. – To be re-elected, President Bush must define John Kerry as an ultra-liberal extremist, top political strategist Dick Morris said Thursday night at a special "Off the Record" forum held by NewsMax for opinion leaders in Florida. Kerry will win in November if he succeeds in disguising himself as a moderate, Morris warned. Bush will win if he paints the Massachusetts Democrat as Michael Dukakis’ lieutenant governor...

If Sen. John Kerry winds up as the Democratic nominee next summer, the first phone call he's likely to make is to Sen. Hillary Clinton - to ask her to be his running mate. That's the prediction of Dick Morris, whose advice made Bill Clinton the only Democratic president since FDR to win reelection. "Now that Howard Dean is clearly not going to be the nominee, there is a very good chance that Hillary will be the vice presidential candidate," Morris told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," Wednesday night. "I would flat out predict that whoever wins this nomination...

Karl Rove must be crying That which the Democratic Party bosses — and Bill and Hillary Clinton — could not control, they chose to kill. Despite summoning a cyber-roots enthusiasm unequalled in decades, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean committed the unpardonable sin of failing to kowtow to the leaders of his party. He paid for it with a third place finish in Iowa. The months of daily pounding, animated by diligent negative research by minions of Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons and disseminated into the national political bloodstream by the likes of Chris Lehane, proved effective. Dean, subjected to a...

Morris just predicted Bush landslide "Dukakis style" next year over Dean. Says "Dean will be blasted next year by the Bush team on 2 issues 1. Because he is a liberal 2. Because he is a flake Vintage Morris...says Bush has it locked up.

Just a heads up / FYI Dick Morris will be on O'Reilly's TV show tonight expanding on his prediction that "Arnold will fade like a pretty girl at the door." Morris thinks many more Dems will enter the race. He aslo says that political amatuers have no business running for office.

It is incredible how rapidly President Bush’s job approval ratings have fallen in the aftermath of the ouster of Saddam Hussein. In 60 days, they have dropped from the high 60s and low 70s to the mid-50s! In the Clinton administration, despite daily pounding and actual impeachment, his job rating did not drop below 60 percent from early 1996 until the end of his second term. Bush seems to have no firewall to arrest his drop. His ratings seem to depend on yesterday’s news. Because the empowerment of the Republican Party in all three branches of government masks the demographic...

<p>What do Trent Lott and Bill Clinton have in common? Not enough for Lott to survive.</p> <p>Trent Lott and Bill Clinton were both born poor in the Deep South of the 1940s. Both crawled their way to the top of the national political heap with enormous grit and drive. Both are extremely stubborn men who instinctively refuse to bow to pressure and quit when controversy envelopes them. The difference is that Bill Clinton could be removed as president only by a two-thirds vote of the Senate--something his party's loyal support precluded. But Trent Lott's support within his party is melting away, and right now he is nowhere near the 26 votes from GOP Senate colleagues he needs to retain his job.</p>