You're such a genius...Dick.
One good thing that might come out of this election is the brutal reality that when you - and I mean all the little cities and counties across the country - vote for your representative, you are also voting for Speaker of the House. Are all of those folks happy now with a rabid, hate-filled San Francisco liberal?
Hmmmmm.... The end of the 20 years coincides with the expected collapse of the social security system.
This is nonsense. We no longer have a liberal monopoly in the news media. The growth of talk radio, the internet and Fox News have all helped to balance the playing field just a little.
lol! This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
Republicans lost because voters:
1) Are tired of the Iraq they see on the news, and want some changes. A lot of this is our fault...failure to see it as a problem, unwillingness to admit problems, change course etc. in a way that would not be cutting and running.
2) Corruption.....we have handled this issue horribly. Instead of saying "we will clean up our mess and do real reform," we passed limp-wristed reform measures and basically said "Democrats do it, too." Yeah, we kicked people out, but that is not what the voters saw. They saw our rationalization and whining.
3) Lack of action/getting the sense that Republicans are out of touch. Frankly, it is hard to name one significant, tout-at-election-time achievement of the Republicans in the last year.
The Republicans had no plan to win except say "the Dems have no plan." While true, it did not work. And rightly so. Voters wanted to see our agenda, something radical, something to attract their interest. We didn't even offer anything boring. We offered nothing.
All of this combined to make this president, the history-defying president actually having coattails, to perhaps have reverse coattails this year. The voters wanted change, and it is not hard to see why.
This banishment to the desert will give us time to get shaken back to our core as a party of who we are, and give us time to re-energize us, which we need.
The past year or so the Republicans have been running on autopilot.
As for Morris' prediction of 20-year rule? That is beyond ridiculous.
This was not a sea change in voter sentiment. It was a slight ripple based on frustration with Republicans, contrary to most on this site, by independents and Dems, not Republicans staying home.
VOTERS WERE NOT VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS. THEY WERE VOTING "LET'S TRY SOMETHING NEW.....THE REPUBLICANS HAVE FRANKLY NOT ONE DIDDLY SQUAT THIS PAST YEAR, AND THEY SEEM TO NOT BE LISTENING ON IRAQ. WE DON'T LOVE THE DEMS MORE THAN THE GOP, BUT WE WILL GIVE THEM A SHOT. WE CAN KICK THEM OUT IN 2008 IF WE HAVE TO DO SO."
If Democrats remain center-focused like they have suddenly become again with Emanuel (former Clinton guy) smartly realizing you need a "vital center," they can win some elections. But, if they do these investigations, turn to the left etc., I firmly believe the voters will kick them out. America is still a center-right nation, not a liberal country. The battle for the Democratic Party soul is on..."New Democrat" Emanuel vs. Nancy Pelosi and others.
And if Nancy goes all-out liberal, the Democrats will pay at the ballot box in 2008.
I really hope she does, because if she does not, in my opinion, it will be MUCH HARDER for Republicans to win elections from now on. It will be Clinton all over again...appealing to the middle and any attempt we have to call them liberal will not stick.
To win in that environment if the Dems actually stay moderate until 2008 (which seems unlikely to me), we will HAVE to do a Contract with America 2. That type of move would make voters see conservatism as appealing and a reform movement. That would resonate with voters and cause us to win. But, if the Dems stay moderate, I can guarantee having us just call the "moderate" Democrats liberal without an alternative plan *****WILL COST US ANY CHANCE FOR WINNING IN 2008 OR LATER******.
If the Dems turn the next two years into a series of hearings about Iraq etc, they might put the Republicans right back in control. The public does NOT want hearings or to rehash past decisions; they will just see it as BS politics, and will turn against the Dems. These things have ALREADY been investigated two or three times. The public is sick of politics, and if the Dems use this as an opportunity for politics and more politics, they will be the losers.
sick of Morris. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth, and on both sides of his head.
When is Wm. Jefferson going to get indicted? How about an investigation of Harry Reid's real estate deals? Why are the investigations only going to go one way?
I don't agree with the reasons, but he could be right. 1. I think there are many Republicans in Congress who prefer being backbenchers. 2. They don't even have a single issue that unifies them. The coalition doesn't have anything to hold it together.
I don't agree with the reasons, but he could be right. 1. I think there are many Republicans in Congress who prefer being backbenchers. 2. They don't even have a single issue that unifies them. The coalition doesn't have anything to hold it together.
What makes Dick Morris believe that the country could survive that long with the dims in control?
Actually, I don't disagree with the notion that they won the 2008 presidency on Tuesday. UNLESS they put Hillary forward in 2008.
They will conduct hearings to a happy press who will drum it down our throats, confirming the votes that just happened to the voters (it's what they'll want to hear) and in 2008, a democrat will take the presidency (and probably more senate and house seats).
Everything I need to know about what isn't going to happen politically I learned from Dick Morris.
I agree with Morris...people have no idea how hard it will be to retake Congress.
Despite all the amnesty talk I believe we're already past the tipping point. The Republicans goose is cooked.
This is an absurd prediction. Does he really think its going to be smooth sailing for Dems? They'll be lucky if they don't destroy their own party in one year. Two factions will be warring before long: the Soros sponsored radicals with their residual 60's minset still intact versus the Clintinoid opportunists who understand that this country is still fairly conservative and that the election was not a mandate for wild-eyed liberal policies. One wants revenge, the other longevity. They can't have it both ways.