Posted on 10/18/2006 12:59:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
The GOP is [rearranging] "deckchairs on the Titanic," and single women will propel Hillary Clinton to the White House in 2008, says political analyst Dick Morris.
Republicans are watching their base shrink dramatically in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, said Morris, appearing on "Your World" with Neil Cavuto.
The former Clinton advisor and confidante pointed to a recent Gallup poll that revealed what has happened among church-going whites, whom Morris called "the ultimate GOP base." They are "splitting 47-47 in their vote," he told Cavuto, who said "Then it's a matter of just sitting home [on election day] but they're actually voting for the other guy."
Said Morris: "White church-goers have moved 21 points away from the Republicans in margin since pre-Foley," Morris explained. The percentage of white, frequent church-goers that vote Republican has dropped from 58 pre-Foley to 47 now."
Cavuto asked if the strong equity market and pretty good economic numbers were "falling on deaf ears?" Morris recalled that there were pretty decent economic numbers in 1994 under the Democrats when the GOP captured control of Congress.
Noting that the good economy is not helping because it takes a "long time for the economy to percolate through" and thus cannot help the GOP, Morris said the "short term cause" of the coming Republican disaster is "the base abandoning the Republican party because the Foley scandal hurt - you can't imagine how much that scandal hurt." Morris said incredulously, "Right now Democrats have an 8 point lead over Republicans on promoting morality in America? Duh!"
Cavuto commented that even though we have a Dow flirting with 12,000, the Evangelical base is saying "it's not the money it's morality." He asked, "That's going to trump all?" Morris said, "I think the Republican Party has survived because of [Karl] Rove's fabulous capacity to generate the base, but now we're having the base slipping out."
He explained that most politicians work on getting a percentage of the voters who are out there, but Hillary Clinton works on increasing the number of voters on her side.
He pointed out the recent article which revealed that half of all households in the U.S. are unmarried. He also said that 19 million single women voted in 2000, and 28 million voted in '04. "And I'll bet 35 million vote" in 2006. "The number of single mom, minimum wage earning waitresses who come out and vote are going to be the phenomenon."
Hillary might not do that well among the current electorate, Morris said, but she'll grow the electorate by 10 million votes and that's how she'll win.
Dick Morris needs to be on medication. Of course, his prediction sealed the Rats' fate in 06 and the Hildebeast's in 08.
RE: So what would make her so attractive to a single woman?
Single women, especially those who are older, are quite often rabid feminazis (at least ideologically speaking). They can't wait to have a female president, it is a consuming passion of theirs.
This might be a good thing - has this clown ever been correct?
I think you are right about the older ones, especially if they have been married and left by their husbands. But your typical young single woman? I don't see any reason to assume that she is single because she is a feminazi. More of them than not are probably looking for Mr. Right. Some may find Hillary inspiring, but I have my doubts it is the majority of them.
Men like Morris are quick to assume that women buy into the feminist line "Sisterhood is powerful." The reality is that women are relentlessly critical of other women.
You'll probably find vast regional disparities among younger single women (as well as economic ones). The specific demographic I mentioned earlier in the thread, single, urban, professional "Sex and the City" types, would tend to also fall into the feminazi meme. It's not because they hate men, it's because they believe that their "sexual freedom" is better guaranteed by the feminist cause. Also, they believe, falsely, that afirmative action was a necessary thing to get women like them into the work place. Here where I live, these types, while often very worried about personal appearance, liking high salaries (and the things they allow purchase of) and being very chic, are nonetheless rabid idealogical feminists. In spite of Hillary's enabling behavior, they gloat about Hillary the Senator, and Hillary the writer, etc. Hillary the President would be the icing on their cake.
Do you know that? I mean have you seen anything that supports that?
I would love to see Jim Inhofe run...and I would pay to see a debate between him and Hillary!.
Foley's district is thousands of miles from my home. Why would the disgusting actions of that deviant crackpot influence my vote? Why does Mr. Morris think that evangelical Republicans would jump out of the political frying pan and into the Democratic fire by voting cross-party? His theory makes no sense at all.
~ Blue Jays ~
Who's publishing Morris' deep thoughts, "Scrappleface"?
Look at the date on the article. Wonder what Morris thinks TODAY! :-)
FOX needs to stop paying this idiot and force him to get a damn job.............. I'm sick of this fool........
This is an "old" article but he is still a maroon.
Here's a summary of the latest Dick Morris prediction: I'm 100 percent fairly certain that Democrats will take the House. Unless they don't.
WTF?!?
Does he dust the hooker toes in PCP before he sucks on them?
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