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Dick Morris: 'Clintons Want Bush Re-elected'
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/30/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 05/30/2003 2:38:11 PM PDT by kattracks

The decision by Bill and Hillary Clinton to keep a high profile going into next year's presidential campaign amounts to a "conscious effort" by the former first couple to make sure that no Democrat wins the White House in 2004.

That's the stunning assessment from political strategist Dick Morris, who said Thursday that the Clintons actually want to see Bush re-elected so he can retire just when Mrs. Clinton is ready to run for the White House herself in 2008.

"There is a conscious effort going on by the Clintons to distract attention from the current field of candidates," Morris told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity. "They do not want a Democrat to win in '04."

"They want Bush to be re-elected," the former Clinton adviser explained. "And that way they want Hillary to be able to run for an open seat."

"If Bush lost and a Democrat were elected, then obviously [Hillary] would have to support him in '08," he noted.

"She couldn't run until 2012. She'd be 65 years old and would have been out of office for 12 years. It's kind of hard at that point to keep the bloom on the rose and be able to run."

Morris said that Bill Clinton wants to maintain his role as spokesman for the Democratic Party so he can "trivialize and minimize the Democratic candidates" and thereby keep the Oval Office open for Hillary.

Another indication that the former first couple would like to see their own party defeated in the next presidential election, said Morris, is the fact that "[Clinton's] big fund-raising guns have not signed up with any of these other guys."

Democratic strategist Susan Estrich offered partial support for Morris' theory last week, complaining that the Clintons were actually hurting other Democratic presidential candidates with their high-profile antics.

"The Clintons suck up every bit of the available air," the one-time Dukakis campaign manager observed. "Nothing is left for anyone else. They are big, too big. That's the problem."

"The 2004 candidates need a chance to get some attention," she added. "Could somebody please tell [the Clintons] to shut up?"

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Bush Administration
Sen. Hillary Clinton



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2008; democrats; dickheaddis; dickmorris; elections; hillary; x42
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To: kattracks
clinton says that the country needs to allow a president to run again because 20 years later the same problems might occur.

a lewinsky with a box of cigars?
121 posted on 05/30/2003 9:13:49 PM PDT by liberalnot (what democrats fear the most is democracy .)
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To: nana4bush
My daily prayer, nana, is that the Lord will render the Clintons ... and all their minions ... powerless and voiceless and faceless and nameless and useless and homeless and penniless ... that He will take from them everything and leave only their immortal souls, and it is for these souls that I pray ... such is their evil ...
122 posted on 05/30/2003 9:15:31 PM PDT by Pegita
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To: Slyfox
Lying in wait for sure!

Or

Lying in a short wait.
123 posted on 05/30/2003 9:29:10 PM PDT by Quix (MAY BIBLE CODE DIGEST IS UP AT biblecodedigest.com)
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To: Slyfox
MUCH AGREE.
124 posted on 05/30/2003 9:29:43 PM PDT by Quix (MAY BIBLE CODE DIGEST IS UP AT biblecodedigest.com)
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To: kattracks
I don't think this is far-fetched.

Generally, the second terms of even popular presidents have not been as successful as the first.

Think of Ronald Reagan's second term: the Democrats were more effective in thwarting him, and also had time to scrounge up a scandal ("Iran-Contra"), which, however, phoney, did do some damage to Reagan and the Republican Party.

So a less effective Bush second term would tee up the ball nicely for the Dems. (Not that I think Hillary has a chance of a snowball in h*ll of being elected.)

125 posted on 05/30/2003 10:01:45 PM PDT by gumbo
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To: Latina_Abogada
Her "ugly" goes right to the bone and it comes from the inside out. Evil and hatred always manifest themselves in that sallow, puffy, droopy and hardened ugliness that is synonymous with Hillary's face.

I believe it was Dr. Johnson who said "The outer is the inner revealed."

126 posted on 05/30/2003 10:03:09 PM PDT by gumbo
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To: aristeides
Rudy will never be president.
127 posted on 05/31/2003 7:11:39 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand
Rudy will never be president.

Why ever not? Hasn't he shown himself to be exactly the kind of leader one wants in wartime?

128 posted on 05/31/2003 7:17:05 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides
He's not electable nationally. I think he would make a great senator. Or governor. And is electable as either.
129 posted on 05/31/2003 7:23:16 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand
He's not electable nationally.

After 9/11? Why not?

130 posted on 05/31/2003 7:24:47 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides
I am a Rudy supporter, so I am reluctant to list all the reasons here. I support him for either governor or senator.
131 posted on 05/31/2003 7:30:38 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Slyfox
>>I find it scary that the Campaign finace law will make it illegal and impossible to educate the public in the days before the 2004 elections!<<

Well then, I'd say that we here in FreeperLand are providing this country a tremendous service by exposing The Rodhamiester to the light. All we have to do is keep lifting them rocks.

In service till the end.

God Bless America
And SAVE us from
those Clintons!

132 posted on 05/31/2003 10:59:36 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
...And now the Lies begin.

...If HILLARY were waiting for 2008 to run for President...

...then why is TED KENNEDY allowing 40 year old JFK SeXual Secrets to become public just to enhance BILL CLINTON's image...

...with a Presidential Election looming just ahead for HILLARY..?"

You better believe that Hillary Rodham Clinton is freaked out that there are places like Free Republic and groups like Judicial Watch eyeing her every move!

If we let up on Hillary, thinking "her time" has not yet come, this will be a big mistake!

Keep up the Heat, and if the Hildebeast can be put off until 2008, it'll be because of American's fighting against her, and NOT because of any other reason!

Hillary in 2004.

It's ONLY one year away.

133 posted on 05/31/2003 11:04:57 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: ladyinred
I don't know what is going to happen, but I believe Hillary wants to run in '04. Her book is hitting the stands just as the campaign starts, she is doing prime time with Barbara WaWa, and I think she is behind the scenes directing the war room against Bush.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
The ENEMY Within

We should have impeached Hillary
instead of Bill.

134 posted on 05/31/2003 11:09:35 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: harpo11
Maybe, Clinton's idea of amending the Constitution to allow a president to serve a third, fourth, how about fifth term is not such a bad idea when we could re-elect President Geroge W. Bush so none of the Clintons would ever have the opportunity to disgrace the Office of the Presidency again.

Good thinking Bill, but only if it works against your risky schemes and plotting.

Don't fall for that! Two Terms is all a President gets!

Don't EVER open the door for Bill Clinton to return!

Truly, the Clinton's ARE Evil.

135 posted on 05/31/2003 11:15:12 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: Quix; ALOHA RONNIE; kattracks; doug from upland
I don't think she's sufficiently slick or even quite
sufficiently evil to be the AC.

But she's wicked enough to WANT to be the AC.

Poor Hillary... if only
she'd been born a man, she could
have been the Anti-Christ!

Life just isn't fair.

136 posted on 05/31/2003 11:19:37 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: Consort
She's ready to hit the campaign trail
anytime Bush gets into serious trouble.

She's ready to hit the campaign trail
as soon as she gets
Bush into serious trouble.

Tricky Hillary
Always one step ahead.

137 posted on 05/31/2003 11:23:32 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: Joy Angela
Points well taken.

I still believe the AC will be a 'man.'
138 posted on 05/31/2003 11:26:46 AM PDT by Quix (HEBREW VOWEL ISSUE DISCUSSED, SCHOLARS N JUNE BCD search for TRUE HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON CONTINUES)
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Clinton Bashing Bump
139 posted on 05/31/2003 11:30:43 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
..'The McLAUGHLIN Group' Panelist/Columnist LAWRENCE O'DONNELL stated last night on MSNBC's 'HARDBALL with Chris Matthews' that the only way BILL CLINTON's Kill the 22nd Amemdment/3rd Term Ban Movement would succeed...

...would be if something really BIG were to happen to turn everything upside down out there in our Country.

Buckle Up and STAY TUNED

Wait a minute! How the heck can Bill Clinton propose any legislation!

Hillary was Bill's Co-President and now Bill is Hillary's Co-Senator!

Drats!

I hate 2-for-1 Scams!!!

140 posted on 05/31/2003 11:37:13 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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