Posted on 09/02/2008 11:59:18 AM PDT by truthandlife
Political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax that neither Hurricane Gustav nor the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter will have a negative effect on Republican efforts as the November election draws closer.
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I really felt sorry for the girl. This is going to backfire big time on the Left. The kid looked pathetic...scared on tv. Most decent people will realize some very vicious animals from the MSM are filth. I wonder what they would have said a few years ago if Chelsea was with child.
This will ALL blow over.
The Left and the MSM are taking their best shots at her and they will not be able to knock her out. This is their last and best chance and they will fail. Then it is on to the real campaign.
I can hear Plain on the stump now:
“The media and the Liberals tried to pick your candidate for you...are you going to let that happen?”
I know the kind of woman and person Sarah Palin is and I would not want to tangle with her.
Obama is already responding to the claim of her having more executive experience then he does. He is doing that because he is afraid, not because he is confident.
She is more than a fine pick.
Yep, I think you’re right. If we’re talking about foreign policy credentials I sure as heck feel more comfortable sending someone who knows which end of a gun the bullet comes out of and how to use a knife for something other than cutting a filet mignon over to chat with Vlady Putin.
Morris also said Bush would recover his approval rating after Katrina because he would get credit for the rebuilding.
We see how well that prediction went.
Morris is interesting when he talks about strategy generically...he is good a breaking it down. But he is horrible at predicting.
“Morris obviously hasn’t seen the polls numbers from the weekend “
My guess is he has seen them. The difference is he actually understands how to read them. It’s a game of expectations and Obama’s bounce was less than and anticipated and at best on par with historical averages. Plus McCain’s favorable ratings went up with Republicans and Independents after the Palin pick. But it is still to earlier from folks to switch from undecided to McCain until they see more of Palin.
It’s a circus right now.
DNC, RNC, Palin, Gustav, MSM freaking out left and right, polls jumping up and down.
And not even a single debate yet! LOL
All this will pass and be distant memory soon.
The debates and the real campaigns have yet to start.
I am not convinced that Obama’s recent move to 50% is because of the Palin attacks. Here’s why: the surprise pick blunted Obama’s convention bounce, but only momentarily. What you’re seeing now is the same bounce you would have seen if McCain had gone with someone conventional and boring as a running-mate.
It is a theory, at least, and only time will tell.
The McCain campaign need not worry over these premature poll numbers, the dimwits will take care of that themselves
In this case I think Morris is right; because this time the adults are in charge.
Though I’m often skeptical of Dick Morris I believe he’s right on this and makes a good point about McCain taking Palin on even knowing about her daughter.
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Maybe....
I think Morris is right. This is going to bite them in the @ss. Let’s see the polls that reflect the responses.
You said it yourself weekend polling
In the short term, Gustav hurt — it gave Obama the bounce that he didn’t get from his convention, and it cut the momentum McCain got from the Palin pick.
For 3 days the media was able to replay the Katrina story again and again, reminding people of how “bad” it was handled.
Since Katrina was the seminal event that triggered the Democrat takeover of DC, it was not surprising that Obama has gotten a bounce in the polls the last few days.
One could hope that everything going well would mitigate the bounce, but the media pretty much put an embargo on ANY story that points out that the REpublican governor of LA did things correctly.
She is strong but how will her daughter handle it
What if it really has a bad emotional impact on her daughter who is carrying a baby
That is a whole new ball game .It is not the same as the mother standing up under pressure
This is not a good situation and I sure hope they talked it over with the daughter extensively and let her know what she was in for ( if they didn’t realize how vicious the left is they are naive to say the least) before embarking on this trip
Obama was supposed to have a solid lead going into his convention, then expand it with a “bounce.” He didn’t have much if any pre-convention lead, and for a couple of days it was looking like he wouldn’t even get a bounce. Now that it looks like he did, some of us are disappointed. But McCain is still in a better position than he expected to be going into his convention. Steve Schmidt presumably had a plan to win this election even if McCain was down 12-16 points heading into the RNC — I suppose he still has a plan.
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