Dick Morris: 'Clintons Want Bush Re-elected'

NewsMax.com ^ | 5/30/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[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?"

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[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Hillary wants another 9/11 at the right momement before the RAT convention. She thinks that will make her the inevitable candidate because she has threaded the needle and not taken a radical anti-military stand. She also thinks that this will make GW vulnerable in the election and she can demogogue the issue with the help of 95% of the media. I go further. I would not be surprised if the Clinton mafia may actually try to foster another 9/11 using deep contacts with Al Qaeda. Sound paranoid/insane? My principle is that the Clintons are capable of anything in their demonic pursuit of power.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I havta think about this some... I still don't trust Hitlery, AT ALL! If she went for it in 04 I would not be shocked.

[Joy Angela]

Me either.

[Joy Angela]

I would not be surprised if the Clinton mafia may actually try to foster another 9/11 using deep contacts with Al Qaeda. Sound paranoid/insane? My principle is that the Clintons are capable of anything in their demonic pursuit of power.

The Conspiring Clintons

They "SHALL-SEE Victory."

Just ask their daughter
"Chelsea Victoria" Clinton

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

The Criminal duo Clintons have sure been all over the press, but the only ones that truly care or read their narcissist crap are conservatives like us, for a good laugh under the "Clinton Watch'. Both of the Clintoon criminals have been mouthing off but in this one the bubba meister gives advice.Is this to throw us off, cause they know the democratic party is a wash up?

I must agree the dems are washed-up and no one is spotlighted but Sharpton. This makes the CLINTON commie party look bad-UNLESS it benefits them somehow-HOW SICK IS THIS!!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Do a couple of American Cities going -Up in Smoke- make the CLINTONS' 3rd Term Day..?

...Nuclear/Terrorism Expert MONSOOR IJAZ stated on National TV last Sunday that OSAMA bin LADEN is now toying with Communist North Korea to get ahold of their new Nuclear Devices to use against our Cities.

...Since HILLARY RODHAM, BILL CLINTON and ROGER CLINTON have been working with Communist North Korea and against US for years...

.."IS is SAFE..?"

[Victoria Delsoul]

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.

This is an oldie but still relevant, hehehe.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL. Still relevant, for sure!

[I got the rope]

Hmmm...I'll have to take your word on it that some of his predictions were true. The only predictions I know of are the ones he tells us in hindsight.

Unlike most partisans here, Morris is not out of touch with America- he is closer to them than most because he studies polls closely and can discern subtelties in them that shift opinion one way or another.

"Partisans here" hmmm...have you chosen sides. You are either with the Patriots or with the Demonrats in my book. The problem with Dick Morris and Clinton is that they set their agenda based on polls in the hope to take advantage of public opinion. Never mind what's right or wrong as long as you have a moronic poll to give you guidance and to back up your claim of prescience.. What nonsense! Just because you start a website called Vote.com doesn't make you an expert.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

DICK MORRIS

[Tribune7]

The Clintons are going to destroy the Democratic Party. Maybe there is a good side to them.

[WoofDog123]

"How about a Cheney/Bush ticket in 2004? If Cheney wins, that leaves Bush eligible to run in 2008, assuming Cheney survives at least through 2006. In fact, Cheney can "retire" in 2006, and Bush can assume the presidency and hopefully max out the two-term or 10 years part of the Constitution by finishing Cheney's term and then getting another term in 2008."

Such a blatant attempt to circumvent the 22nd amd. would turn off a LOT of people, even those who hate the clintons.

[WoofDog123]

"The country would have to be absolutely near insanity to elect a woman of such low caliber, but if she should by hook and crook manage to be the occupantsuit of the Oval Office, then this country could end up in as bad as shape as California or worse."

I keep wondering what all the people who think the patriot act is great, or not invasive enough, are thinking given the possibility this unscrupulous person may one day control the assets and powers in that law.

[NeoCaveman]

153 comments without one reference to Dick Morris as "the toe-sucker" Freepers are getting too mellow.

[I got the rope]

LOL! I didn't forget. I was saving that as my trump card. What year did the toe's get sucked...was it 1996?

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

But their next goal is to destroy America...

[petitfour]

This DMorris theory sounds about right to me, too. I guess the Clintons are counting on good health among other things for the next few years.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

[HamiltonJay]

haha... Dems tied their ship to this mound of crap in 1992, and its going to keep dragging them down until at least 2020

[ken5050]

Bingo..you're right on the money....the dems sold their soul to the Clintons..they'll need an excommunication to rid the party of them..