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.”
As regards the wife of Grover, she's praying six times a day, upholding that pillar of Islam. He's not too worried about immigration and you sound quite a bit like him. The amnesty (he supports) may have a tougher ride in the House than is expected. There were 40+ on the other side who opposed amnesty. They did not disappear and many will hear from back home if this travesty rears its' ugly head.
I think he'd be fantastic serving Arkansas in the Senate. Ditto Rudy from NJ or NY!
It's Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show!!
Oh, you are remarkable!
Read what you wrote:
We need to do what`s right. If the candidate for the GOP is not pro life, then it would be better for Dems to win.
Get that? You posted that it would be better for the Democrats to win if the GOP candidate isn't pro-life.
I must not have been clear in my original post, so I will clarify it for you:
A pro-life President can't overturn Roe vs Wade, but he can appoint judges in the mold of Scalia and Alito just like RUDY HAS SAID HE WOULD. Isn't this what we want? Don't we have a better chance to further our pro-life agenda by electing a Republican President who says he will appoint originalist judges instead of a Democrat President like Hillary or Obama, who you will enable by supporting a losing GOP candidate who can't win squat?
How is a pro-life President going to fight abortion? Abortion is already legal and that won't change anytime soon. The way to fight it is by incremental steps, like appointing judges who will judge on the side of life. Another step is by reaching out to people through education and by teaching our children the facts at school, by opposing to partial birth abortion, by allowing parental notification, by eliminating federal funding for abortion, and by opposing embryonic cell-steam research. The Democrats are OPPOSED to all of this.
If Giuliani says he would do these things, as well as appoint constitutional originalist judges like Scalia and Alito (which he already said he would do,) you still wouldn't vote for him because he isn't pro-life, even though he would do the same things a pro-life president would do. And in that case, I can fairly assume “the thousands on this site that agree with you” as you put it, would also agree that it would be better for a Democrat candidate who is opposed to all the above to win the presidency if the GOP nominates a candidate who isn't pro-life.
Do you think I will apologize to those who will let Democrats win, and who let those who disregard our most cherished values - liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness – gain political power? Well, think again.
Coneheads!
Hahaha! From France! ;-)
Hahahaha... well, CONS... coneheads, lol.
Unfortunately, only politicians get elected.
I would like to buy a new car from someone who isn't a car salesman. That's not gonna happen.
The CONS just don't get it.
Because they're coneheads, that's why, LOL.
I'm no fan of Rudy as POTUS, but the inclusion of Reagan into your rant is a red herring. Reagan's not a vet either.
Well Victoria
You go ahead and vote for Rudy,thats your right.See tag line
Using the name of the Lord to impugn the GOP is beyond me. What's wrong with you?
The GOP isn't a church, and it isn't a club for holy rollers. Don't use the name of the Lord in vain!
So what's your point by telling me to see your tagline?
Rudolph Guiliani made his bones putting Mafia chieftains away he is as tough as they get. There is nothing like leadership to achieve things and this is what is to be expected from him. And this is what you folks fear from him.
If he is as strong a leader as I think he will then he will win the nomination. The wildly hostile attitude towards him is limited to some here who are small minorities of the American people. At present he polls as well in Georgia and South Carolina as in Iowa and New Hampshire.
If he isn't as strong a leader as I think then I see no chance to defeat the Democrats in 08 and we will once again be subject to great dangers from an incompetent and/or craven foreign policy that allows our enemies to multiple and strengthen. Domestical policy will be your worst nightmares and economic blundering and looting of the taxpayer while a Supreme Court of Ginsburgs begins to be formed. Given the age of Ruth and Stevens a Republican president and Senate is critical to the future of the Republic.
...go read a couple biographies and get back to me...
I think much of his "Domestical" life will reflect in the the things he'll try to do as regards US "Domestical" policy. You can do quite a bit with the stroke of a pen. Reagan, for instance, instituted a "We ask, Don't join" policy as regards to homosexualizing the military and he ended sex-integrated basic training in the army; both by executive order. No doubt, Rudy disagreed with both.
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