I agree with Morris' conclusion, not his logic. He says:
"Rice is the only person who can stop Hillary Clinton from being president."
That has got to be the most absurd comment of the year. Rice is not going to be a factor in the race at all.
On the other hand, I think Hillary can win, and unlike Morris, I have a plausible reason why. It's because she has to do only one thing differently from Gore and Kerry: She's gotta win Florida.
And that is doable, if she demogogues social security and medicare. She's also got to win Kerry's Blue States, but that is also very doable. She's a shoo-in in all the states that Kerry won except Oregon, Minn., Wis., and perhaps Michigan, but even those states are not tough states for her. The GOP has no one on the horizon who could easily defeat her in any of those Blue States, with the possible exception of Guiliani, and as Morris says, Guiliani won't get the GOP nomination.
I agree with your analysis.
I like Dick Morris's commentary. He was always on the money about the election. Everything he said Bush should do, Bush did.
I think the first debate was lost simply because of the camera comparisons, showing Bush smaller than Kerry. What they had to say meant nothing.
In the following debates Bush looked more formidable.
There will be an even bigger backlash against Hillary, but I agree with him when he says she will be moving to the middle with National Security issues and make us believe that she is as moderately republican as Guliani.
nick
I don't see it. Four years of old FDR geezers passing away erodes the DIMS voter base more and more...thank God.