As you can see by the Pic, someone asked for our thoughts on our current GOP candidates... Thes are MY Takes... So no need to get upset!
Posted on 01/17/2007 7:55:38 AM PST by seanmerc
Political analyst Dick Morris used a baseball analogy out of season to summarize what he considers the bleak prospects for Republican victory in the 2008 presidential election.
"I think you’ll see one of the minor leaguers win it [the GOP nomination],” Morris told Fox News Channel.
Morris thinks the leading Republican candidates – Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich – are "too flawed” to win the hearts and votes of conservatives in the early primaries.
"The top four candidates for the Republican nomination can’t win,” Morris said. "Rudy Giuliani, John McCain . . . Romney with all of the flip-flops on abortion and Newt Gingrich, who I don’t think gets into it.”
That leaves a cast of lesser-known Republicans in line for a surprise run toward the nomination.
"I think that the Republican nominee is going to be one of these minor leaguers: [Tom] Tancredo, [Mike] Huckabee, [Sam] Brownback, [Jim] Gilmore from Virginia, Duncan Hunter from California,” Morris said. "It’s like the pitching rotation is all going to be injured at the World Series and the Triple –A pitching staff, one of them is going to pitch the opening game.”
Morris suggests the GOP will face Hillary Clinton in "the big game,” despite all of the buzz surrounding Sen. Barack Obama.
"Obama serves the function of keeping Al Gore out of the race,” Morris said. "He just sucks up too much of the anti-Hillary vote, but he won’t win.”
Morris said Obama’s showing in the primaries may boost Hillary to victory in the general election.
"Hillary will run a vigorous race against Obama, probably a nasty race,” he said. "She defeats him, then reaches out to African-American voters and puts Obama on as vice president.
"I have said from the very beginning, Hillary is the Democratic nominee and she is the next president of the United States.”
I agree with you, but I think an even more likely choice for Hillary's VP would be Evan Bayh of Indiana. Midwestern family man, ex-governor, he might flip Indiana and neighboring Ohio to the Dem column. Hillary needs to make inroads on the married midwestern vote, and Bayh gives her the best chance to do that. She will get the black and hispanic vote regardless. Did you know Bayh accompanied Hillary to Iraq this past week?
What many of you don't realize is that you are asking people who have religious convictions to change them, just for the sake of winning an election. They don't do that.
This entire Obama phenomenon is a Rahm Emanuel (Clinton) operation, pure and simple. The idea is to keep the exposure off Hillary while she cruises under the radar to the Nomination but in the end she knocks the straw man (Obama) down, grabs the ring, and looks like a sure winner.
The only way Hillary can win in November is as she did in New York - the public doesn't get a good look at what they are buying before they vote her in. Instead, they get to look at the "exciting contest" between her and Obama as Obama sucks up star-struck media ink. Obama is the "decoy" operation to keep close scrutiny off Hillary.
I do think he is selling Newt short, though. But I agree McCain, Giuliani, and Romney are all losers. They are media candidates the media is trying to foist on the GOP.
Do the Repubicans have any major leaguers? If so, who are they?
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, you don't need a toe-sucker to know that Guiliani, Romney and McVain suck.
Ah! As a fellow Chicagoan, you can understand my initial shock at your original post. Yes, the media is certainly going to manufacture this election as best they can. I fully expect some sort of appearance of Obama on "American Idol" next season.
People in Indiana do like Bayh but they hate Hillary even more.
They will be happy to return Evan to the Senate.
Did you hear Bobby Rush comment that Obama was "born to be president"? Emil Jones praised him in even more glowing terms. Maybe we should just skip the election and make him president by acclamation -- maybe for life -- as in the good old Chicago tradition.
Bingo! No one except Alan Keyes is conservative enough for them from some of the people I see on the anti-_____ threads. These folks could make me support John McCain and that would be a real stretch for me because he is not my first choice by a longshot.
i was somewhat shocked when the recent elections turned out pretty much the way he said. Previously a Morris prediction would mean put all your money on the opposite outcome. I don't think he got any prediction right before that one. Was that one so obvious? Has he got his prediction software debugged? Is the stopped clock at the right time of day?
Give them some time to surface. The election isn't until November 2008. They have until next spring to campaign in the primaries.
Don't make me do that again.
pfft. It's like watching a cartoon. I'm amazed we don't have a freeway named for him at this point.
That makes a whole lot more sense. Thanks for the clarification!
Or perhaps the Dems in City Council will propose renaming O'Hare to O'Bama International.
LOL! Just give them time....
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