Posted on 10/10/2005 6:36:25 PM PDT by kddid
In a scene sure to send chills down the spines of Republicans everywhere, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann begin their new book, "Condi vs. Hillary: the Next Great Presidential Race," with the former first lady taking the presidential oath of office on January 20, 2009.
"By her side, smiling broadly and holding the family Bible will be her chief strategist, husband and co-president, William Jefferson Clinton," they note, lest anyone forget the full implications of such a scene.
But like Dickens' "Christmas Carol," the Morris-McGann tome warns of a dark future that might yet be avoided - if Republicans realize in time that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is America's last best hope to avoid a third Clinton administration.
Debuting the book Monday on Sean Hannity's ABC Radio show, Morris said polls showing that either Rudy Giuliani or John McCain could defeat Mrs. Clinton in 2008 are misleading.
Certainly Giuliani could defeat Hillary in the general election, but he's "way too left" on social issues to prevail in GOP primaries.
McCain has a similar primary problem, as someone who polls show defeating Clinton handily in a national race - but who's such a maverick that "Republicans just don't like him," Morris said.
Condeleezza Rice, said Morris, is the one GOP candidate who could lock up the primaries and counter Mrs. Clinton's built in advantage with key demographic groups like blacks and women.
Citing the predictions of prominent African-Americans like former Congressman Mike Espy and Amsterdam News publisher Jamal Watson, Morris said that a Rice presidential bid would garner 50 percent of the black vote.
That kind of erosion would cripple the presidential chances of any Democratic candidate, who will need 90 percent of the black vote just to break even.
Morris argues that Condi would also close the gap with another critical Democratic demographic - white women, who are otherwise expected to vote for Hillary in droves. What about Hillary's highly touted credentials as one of the hundred smartest lawyers in the country - not to mention her status as the first, first lady to win high elective office?
Clinton's accomplishments start to fade when compared to Dr. Rice's, noted Morris. He says Condi didn't depend on her husband's coattails to make her way up the career ladder.
"Hillary gets hired by the Rose Law firm the year her husband becomes Arkansas attorney general," he told Hannity. "She makes partner the year her husband becomes governor. She becomes first lady when her husband becomes president."
"Throughout Hillary's entire career, it's her husband leading the way," Morris noted. "With Condi Rice, it's Condi leading the way."
Morris touted Rice's credentials as a self-made woman, first as provost of Stanford University and then as a top foreign policy advisor in both the Bush 41 and 43 administrations.
"When you look at these two women," he said, "you see that this is a woman who made it on her own."
Morris dismisses Rice's current protestations that she's not interested in a White House run, saying, "I'm absolutely certain she'll be president."
In fact, it would look untoward for Rice to be seen openly coveting the ultimate promotion with so much already on her plate. A Condi candidacy, as Morris envisions it, would be a grass roots affair, with hundreds of Rice for President clubs springing up around the country as Americans realize her presidential potential - and weigh the frightening alternative.
Morris paints an ominous picture if Rice sits out 2008 with a chapter titled, "President Hillary: How it Can Happen." George Bush was reelected, he notes, largely because he carried the vote among white females who saw him as a bulwark of strength and security in the post-9/11 world. But Hillary, he said, would be certain to flip the gender equation, noting that Clinton won her first Senate race with a 22 percent margin among women - in a twelve point overall landslide. "The person who I think should stop and could stop Hillary Clinton is Condoleezza Rice," said Morris.
Pence
Times have changed! It's true that a Pro-Choice Republican couldn't win the Nomination for years and years. But...NOW the choice is between HILLARY being the president, or voting for the man who can beat her, namely Guiliani. He would take the south because, in the end, people want the person who will keep their family save, that would be Guiliani, not Hillary! Rudy would take NY and maybe even California. I don't think Morris believes Hillary can lose. He's wrong!
I hope you're right. I'd move outta the country if that happened. I love Condi, Rudi needs to change his views for me to ever think of voting for him and I wouldn't vote for McCain if he were running for the outhouse!
Dang! That reminds me...........I need to paint my toenails.
"He doesn't here mention other Republican candidates, like George Allen."
Senators are not good candidates. When was the last senator elected president? Kennedy?
ROFLMAO!!
That guy makes my skin crawl.
I'm with you on this one. The GOP needs to get busy putting this one together.
He said Allen did not have the national name recognition.
I WILL NOT! cast a vote for John McCain.
Just pointing out that McCain gets over 80% of Republicans in each poll. Runs contrary to Morris' view.
McCain also votes conservative lifetime over 80% of the time.
I won't be voting for any RINOs either. That's like trying to out-democrat the democrats to beat the democrats.
Aren't we wrestling with that precise issue over SCOTUS? (and allowing the DIMs to define her as a result)
Republican candidates, like George Allen."
Senator Allen is completely unknown to New Hampshire voters. Sure that will change. Its early.
Like I said before... "Massholes " who moved north to avoid taxes.. N.H. is no longer the "Live free or die" state. Maine is almost lost to illegals and their "needs"! Vermont got bought out by New York's equivalent of Massholes in the 80's.
Now we have Rhode Island, if you have a job it's a union job, either teaching or Gov't or youse is unemployed
Connecticut has New Yorkers seeking Kelo, WE ARE ALL SCREWED!
COCKROACHES!
Giuliani certainly could defeat Hillary- unlike any other mentioned Republican.
He would do well in the War.
He has a record of significant real world accomplishments.
But hell, better Hillary as President for the "social conservatives because if Guiliani gets elected he's personally come to your home to pick up your gun, officiate at Ellen DeGeneres's gay wedding in the Rose Garden, abort some babies just because he can, and maybe he'll even pick some nobody pal of his to the Supreme Court.
I just finished telling my 11 year old son that in the big picture nobody cares about what you "feel"..
It's about what you do with your life!
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