This photo should accompany ever Dick Morris post.If he keeps this up, Kerry may well end up coming in Third Place.
And then, after all of his lies/screeds/nuanced positions are revealed, the viewership for the final two debates will be halved - the two debates where Kerry could have made up some ground.
"And it doesn't matter how good a debater you are and how attractive you are."
ORANGE IS ATTRACTIVE?????
Dick Morris raises good points. HOwever, in "debates 2000", Al Gore kept going over the time limit, over and over again. No doubts Kerry will too, in order to allow himself an opportunity to explain his current vacillation, and then the next one.
Good!
Not only will he alienate a large portion of his voters no matter what he says, but also whatever he says in the debate will be contradictory to previous statements. And likely, debate 2 will contradict debate 1.
C'mon folks! We all know that Kerry simply won't answer any such questions. He'll answer the questions that he wants to answer regardless of what he is asked. Does anyone here thing this guy has a shread of moral integrity? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Heck, that's straight out of Bill Clinton's playbook.
How often are Morris' speculations correct? I am not overly comforted by his analysis.
Hopefully Thursday evening the pundits and viewers will be in full agreement...The orange candidate lost.
I remember very clearly Dick Morris saying (only a couple months ago... maybe more) that if Bush is going to [stick with this Iraq issue] he won't be able to win.
Now he's saying that he OWNS the Iraq issue.
I agree with the latter... and I get the feeling that Dick Morris windsurfs too.
...now tell me what Pat Cadell is saying... I'll listen to him.
What color tie will he wear with an orange face?
Bush has not "set a trap" for Kerry...
Kerry instead has fashioned his own trap and Bush is simply doing the logical thing of inviting him to jump in it. After all, it was Kerry's incessant flip-flopping and speaking on both sides of innumerable issues that has kept him a fuzzy cipher to most voters.
All Bush has done is sieze upon Kerry's own inadequacy.. his self-constructed flip-flop trap.. and force Kerry to own up to SOME stand on issues already.
Bush didnt have to plot and plan and do deep strategizing to forge this "trap".. all he had to do was take the siituation and shout it out loud and often and not let Kerry wriggle out of his own self-imposed vacillation.
Morris is forgetting the Democrat Convention, and how willing the lefties, the Howard Dean supporters, the greenies, and the far, far left and anti-war wienies of the party followed the plan for victory. They were just fine with Kerry touting his Viet Nam heroics. they know Kerry doesn't mean what he says..they just want him to win.
The same thing applies in reverse...centrist Kerry supporters will be just as tolerant of whatever Kerry says during the debates. Believe me, the democrats hatred for Bush far exceeds their principles. Whatever portion of the party is turned off by what Kerry has to say during the debates, will be more than made up for with the dead and illegal voters that union and Soros people are registering all over the country.
Always good to hear from old toe sucker.
This photo should accompany ever Dick Morris post."A third of his voters are certified hawks, who say that we're winning the war on terror. . . . [But] half of his voters are doves."
33% + 50% = 88%. What are the remaining 12%? DoveHawks? Moderates?
Had there been debates in 1972, McGovern would have had precisely the same problem. With Kerry, everything always seems to circle back to that era.
Sorry, hawks are not voting for Kerry.