[yonif]

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[Lancey Howard]

(Sometimes, White House staff liberals took advantage of this axiom to leak word that Clinton was about to take a liberal position so as to foreclose him from doing anything else for fear of it seeming to be a flip-flop. During the welfare-reform debate, after Clinton had privately decided to sign a waiver to let Wisconsin move ahead with the work requirements and time limits its Legislature had adopted, some White House staffers leaked that he had decided to veto it instead. Terrified of seeming to flip on the issue, Clinton eventually backed off the Wisconsin proposal but then signed a national welfare-reform law. )

These are the kind of tidbits Morris throws out that I find very interesting. He could write a book with nothing but these kind of vignettes and I would buy it.

[goldstategop]

John F. Kerry has a bubble. I think his sleaziness will be his own downfall. The key is to make sure he can't move to the center in time for the fall campaign.

[tkathy]

Like him or not, Morris writes fascinating, insightful stuff. I love the boxing theme.

[Poundstone]

Whatever you may think about Dick Morris personally, the fact is that he's typical of a small group of people who are 100% political animals. Politics is all they live for; without politics to dominate their every waking hour, they'd probably shrivel up and die.

I'm not saying such people are good or bad; I'm simply noting they exist.

I find Morris to be the sharpest such person among this select group. I really don't think he cares about the party affiliation of the people he's worked for in the past (and he's worked for conservative Republicans as well as liberal Democrats). Morris is in it for the game.

I'm going to file this article of Morris' in my hardrive and bring it up in, say, late September. I have a feeling this article will prove to be an accurate description of how Campaign 2004 will pan out.

[Right_in_Virginia]

By showing Kerry to flip-flop, Bush sets him up for the real charges - that he is too weak and too liberal to be president.

This really should read "by showing Kerry to be indecisive...he is too weak to be president.

[onyx]

Conventional wisdom says that this election is going to be close, a replay of 2000. It need not be so. If Bush runs aggressive national advertisements, hammering at these themes, he can put this race away by the end of the spring.

Dick Morris is correct, and the RNC should take heed if it hasn't already.

[chilepepper]

IMHO Kerry just committed political suicide by saying foreign leaders are "praying for him to win"... the timing could not be worse given the articles about Ill Kim warming to the possibility of a Kerry presidency!

But you never know about the US public. Kerry appearing on stage w/ Jane and Ramsey is enough for me (to send money to George and help out the campaign) but the American people have been softened with Gramscian attacks for so long. Has the American public finally lost it? I never thought they would vote for the clown Clinton, and was I was wrong.

Its going to be a very interesting year - not necessarily a very comforting one...

[OESY]

Morris is often knocked on these threads, but he has seldom varied from laying out a credible game plan Republicans should follow to win friends and influence people and, not incidentally, elections. Democrats must rue the day Bill and Hillary Clinton sent out Terry Lenzner and Jack Palladino to dig up dirt and destroy him.

[colorado tanker]

Morris may well be a man with no convictions, but he has a very astute sense of politics.