DICK MORRIS -- "DemocRATS slit their throat tonight"

Al Rantel show | 3-2-04 | dfu

[doug from upland]

Al Rantel and Larry Elder are on KABC with Dick Morris. Dick said that the DemocRATS slit their throats tonight. Kerry was not vetted. He will be seen as a Dukakis liberal.

Bush will spend 150 million dollars in ads up to convention time.

It is too late. Kerry will have the delegates and cannot be un-nominated.

Kerry looked like a reasonable candidate after Howard Dean. When his record is exposed, he will be in deep trouble. Bush must not be nice --- he must use negative ads, go after him, and define him.

Possible for Hillary to take VP spot but Dick thinks Kerry may be in so much trouble by convention time that she will run away screaming.

[Qwinn]

*chuckle* Smartass.

Did the sun rise sometime around dawn this morning?

Qwinn

[Gabz]

Why, why, why, why do people keep deluding themselves that Dick Morris is our friend!?

I'm still trying to figure out who he is................

[uncbob]

Morris is a whore who worked for whoever paid the best

He could care less who it was

Worst kind of slime

Wish the networks especially FOX wasn't lining his pockets

[AGreatPer]

Hillary is going to be drafted at the convention. I know, I know, old stuff. But, I said it 2 years ago.

They know Kerry can't win.

[uncbob]

There is nothing that is too vile, degenerate, obscene, dirty,or low for them to do.

Or to keep democrat voters from voting for them

[oldtimer]

The perfect storm: Hilliary and Edwards 2008. The sheeple have learned to loot to the treasury.

Meanwhile, KERRY IS SCARY.

Anybody selling this bumper sticker yet?

[finnman69]

Last week Morris was harping how Bush was in deep doo doo. Now Morris says the Rats have slit their throats.

Morris has as many opinions as Kerry has positions on issues.

[David]

To Mabel's #12 "He's a liar. Bush doesn't need to spend that cash on Kerry. This hasn't been sewn up yet. She's still waiting in the wings for Kerry to screw it up bad and quit. How in the hell can he say she has a chance at VP slot and yet in the same breath say Kerry hasn't been vetted and is super-liberal?? Does he not see the irony of this statement? Clintons have the intern stuff and will unload it on him. Morris is trying to spread into the American psyche that Hillary is a moderate."

There are some sound thoughts here. Kerry does not have the nomination yet--he has not got a majority of the pledged delegates yet and endorse him though Dean, Edwards, and others have, if he turns into a contest before he has a majority, it is still a contest.

Kerry in fact has a number of defects--Morris is correct. Not just that he is a consistent extreme liberal with an indefensible voting record. The intern issue is still hanging over his head--and it is not that he had an affair with her, he did something to her "worse" which in due course will likely out, together with other of Kerry's problems. In many way, if you were running George II's campaign, Kerry is probably the Dem you would prefer to face out of the group.

I am one of those who has consistently predicted that Mrs. Clinton will be the nominee--so if she is not, I am wrong with the rest. My view was predicated on a deadlock; I suppose a deadlock that results from Kerry having a problem before he sews up the nomination is just a version of that possibility.

Mrs. Clinton has a problem with her present position--Bush has looked vunerable; if she does not run and Kerry wins it will be a long time before she gets a shot, if ever.

Under circumstances where even if Kerry runs and loses, she has a senate race in 2006 against Guliani which current polls show her trailing by 10 points. She might well lose.

So Slick Bill and his wife have been chasing the Kerry people to try to get the Vice Presidential nomination. Last week, they quit. Some people I know in DC who are close to the Republican establishment say the reason they have quit is because there is a very strong drift to promote Cheney from Vice President to a "more meaningful public role" and replace him with Guliani.

Guliani puts New York in play, helps in the polls at least in Penn; Ohio; Ill; as well as even in NJ. Does two things for Mrs. Clinton: Relects George II which leaves the White House open in 08; and, gets Rudy out of her senate race if that analysis plays out.

The Kerry not vetted yet is broader that just that he is a super-liberal. The press will help him cover that up. But he just has so many problems that have not yet been discussed, it is difficult to view him as a serious candidate.

For example his proposition that instead of making war on the terrorists, we ought to engage them in a dialogue. The guy who runs airplanes into the buildings at the center of your economic system does not exactly seem like the kind of guy you open discussions with except at the point of a gun. This kind of foreign policy view is liberal, only in the sense that Nelville Chamberlin was a Liberal. It won't sell in a Presidential campaign, not because it is a liberal policy, but because it is foolish.

Kerry has lots of this kind of stuff in his record and he just is not going to overcome it.

Mrs. Clinton's personal liberalism is not her driving political motivation. She is simply after power and she will do whatever it takes to get there. She might well be a good choice for VP (except that the President who takes her in that roll needs to wear a bullet proof vest and keep his food taster close); but if the race looks winable, she and her husband still have an outside shot at the top--and they will make a political calculation about the liklihood that Rudy will replace Cheney on the Republican ticket because if he does, she probably is not interested.

[doug from upland]

I have spoken about it for over three years and should have finished that novel. The superdelegates can say who they want, but they can do what they want at the convention. If Hillary thinks Bush can be beaten, could she steal all the superdelegates? Perhaps. Could Kerry be blackmailed? Perhaps. Could something happen to Kerry? Perhaps.

[BluH2o]

Always remember, dick is a clintonite.

And a toe sucker ...

[joonbug]

Clintons have the intern stuff and will unload it on him. Morris is trying to spread into the American psyche that Hillary is a moderate

Say what you want about the Clintons, but they are not stupid. Their one and only one goal is to get Hillary into the White House. If it serves their interests to have Kerry go down in flames, so Hillary can try to snag the nomination, it will happen. If they think Bush is unbeatable, they will support Kerry, push him further to the left and let him lose in a huge way. This will make "centrist" Hillary be that much more appealing to the Dems in 2008, much like what happened after Dukakis got whipped as a liberal. Next time was "centrist" Bill to the rescue. Put nothing past the Clintons.

[uncbob]

Well like it has been said

" Politics ain't beanbag "

Just wish Bush knew that

[Lando Lincoln]

My belief is that the "official" position of the RNC is that the election will be very close......knowing full well that 8 months from now, Kerry will be defined as a Massachusetts liberal elite anti-war activist with a pathetic 19 year senate record. Hopefully, with the warmth of summer, the economy will be strengthened further, real job growth will be in place, Iraq will be stabilizing and Botox John will be floundering. When the "strategery" begins, this forum will abuzz.

Now, having said that....we must not relent or take anything for granted. FReepers are becoming a recognized force, I believe. We must not miss an opportunity to reveal Kerry for what he is - a pseudo-intellectual, left-wing liberal opportunist. 8 months are an eternity in politics.

Lando

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Kerry, like Gore, does give us some nice pics. This one's from tonite.

[I still care]

I don't think Morris is good on prediction. But he has the Clinton's character nailed. That is what I listen to him on.

He said tonight on Hannity and Colmes that Hillary would be the veep if the race was close, and Edwards or Clark if it wasn't. He said if Kerry didn't engage Hillary, he would be pulling her knives out of his back for most of the campaign, at which Alan Colmes acted incredulous. But Morris said that Hillary wants an empty White House, and is a political opportunist, which Alan didn't seem to get at all.

When he talks about Hillary's character, it's like truth itself talking. I thought it interesting one day when he said giving Hillary bad news was like "belling the cat" - everyone was afraid to go near her when her claws were out.

[sport]

LOL

[speedy]

Thanks for having the total recall on that one.

[doug from upland]

Do they high five and not kiss? I can't wait to see Kerry give a Gore-like kiss to his intern on the stage at the convention.

[oceanview]

don't laugh, the single event that got Gore the most votes was his kiss with Tipper, especially with women. Kerry may go even further with Theresa. Maybe do a suggestive spread with her in Rolling Stone. Man, the botox is going to be flowing like water for that photo shoot.

[ridesthemiles]

I can type up to about 90 words a minute but tried to go for 110. I just couldn't do it. :)

Good for you---I am lucky if I get 9 clean words a minute...