[wartman]

I can see we're having different opinions on what the facts are, so I'll attempt this a different way...

Was Dick Morris a genius? He ran a re-election campaign for a President who had low approval ratings, lost control of Congress in a disastrous midterm election, attempted a failure with the healthcare plan (All of which were organized without Morris) and ended up winning the election by a respectable margin? Shouldn't he be held in higher esteem on pure strategy than Karl Rove?

[Mad Mammoth]

Was Dick Morris a genius? He ran a re-election campaign for a President who had low approval ratings, lost control of Congress in a disastrous midterm election, attempted a failure with the healthcare plan (All of which were organized without Morris) and ended up winning the election by a respectable margin? Shouldn't he be held in higher esteem on pure strategy than Karl Rove?

You're comparing apples with oranges.

Or as you compare Rove vs. Morris, fingers vs. toes.

For whatever reasons, you appear hellbent to establish that Rove is unworthy of the accolades he has rightly received. Current political discourse would seem to place you in the minority view that Rove was (here we go again) 'just in the right place at the right time'.

Based on that, perhaps you would concede that Bill Clinton was economically 'in the right place at the right time', in that he reaped the political rewards of the economic upturn that was created by the departing Bush 41?

And you might want to recheck that whole 'low approval rating' you cite, as throughout the '96 campaign, Clinton seldom dropped below 50 percent, and in fact Bob Dole seldom got out of the 40's.

But to return to your question of 'Is Morris A Genius'?

Some would say yes, some would say absolutely not. What do YOU say?