Posted on 10/21/2002 7:07:05 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I just saw Dick Morris on Hannity & Colmes predict that as of right now it looks like the Demmycrats will win both Houses of Congress. In a way this sure gives vindication to my nightmare. In another thread I predicted that if Douglas Forrester loses NJ then the Demmycrats will retain control of the Senate. However, if Forrester wins in NJ then the Republicans will pick up 3 seats in the Senate. Don't ask me how I know but I know. This is all part of my NIGHTLY nightmare which involves me SCREAMING at Douglas Forrester to pick up the phone and call Howard Stern to gain his endorsement. In my nightmare, Forrester is always about to make that all-important phone call but then backs out as I wake up screaming (as I do every morning): "DOUG---CALL HOWARD!!!"
PJ- We were discussing this on another thread and I had a different take on it. Morris said that 'if the election were held TODAY the dems would win both houses'.
We have to remember as Endeavor states that this guy is out for #1. He knows the polls may favor the dems today, but they are not accurate until the week of the election. He knows the election is not today, so whatever prediction he gives for TODAY, he can wiggle out of. He and Clinton will do anything that is self-serving. He taught clinton haw to parse words...and he knows that the polls are not very accurate this far out.
He knows polls almost as well as he knows toes.
It is surprising that such a sleazy guy can be such a good columnist, but he is quite good at it, actually."
"Ahem, I think you're talking about the "Old" Dick Morris. He's turned over a new leaf from what I hear. He's a "Born Again Christian", and that's what's caused him to turn an about face from being a Clinton defender to a Bush Supporter.
“Her[Hillary Clinton's] donors would do well to remember... that she can keep their money and spend it on any political purposes she wishes, in any state she wants. My bet is that she will take the money and not run [for Senate].”
Never forget that he helped advise Clinton. Never forget that Clinton ignored all the terror warnings, appeased our enemies and made a mockery of our national security to line his pocket book. Dick Morris was Clinton's helper.
You are mistaken. I did several tactical ads and polls for the Pataki Campaign in the waning weeks of 1994. Pataki was down 7 pts the week before and won by less than 3%.
However I agree he should call Howard.
Please consider this example of Morris-think:
NO - LET THE PEOPLE RULE
Dick Morris
Thursday,November 9,2000
I AM not a liberal or a conservative, a Democrat or a Republican. But I am a democrat. I believe deeply and abidingly in the absolute right of people to choose their leaders. This fundamental principle may be at stake if the final recounts put Vice President Al Gore ahead of George W. Bush in the popular vote but leave him still lagging in the electoral college. If Gore gets more votes than Bush, he ought to be the president. Period.
The Electoral College is a pleasant anachronism which has survived by virtue of its habitual reflection, and frequent amplification, of the popular vote. When the college serves to mask, rather than elaborate, the will of the people, we must look to the popular vote to choose our president.
Some will argue that rules are rules, and both candidates accepted them when they ran in the first place. While our Constitution does prescribe that the electors choose a president, the Declaration of Independence speaks of the sovereignty of the rule of the majority.
It is not as if we confer upon the electors any authority or discretion. We don't even know their names. They don't even appear on our ballot. We elect them to reflect our will, not as New Yorkers, Californians or Floridians, but as Americans.
While the constitution assures the Electoral College of control over the process of choosing a president, there is also no provision restricting the electors to the choice of the voters of the state that sent them. Indeed, racist southern Democrats repeatedly have refused to back the candidate of the national party and used their discretion to vote for third candidates.
When we used to choose as vice president the runner up for the top job, it was expected that one of the winning party's electors would "throw away" their vote for another candidate so that the party's nominee for president could win in the Electoral College.
I believe that it is the Electoral College's clear duty to enact the will of the people. I believe that George Bush has an obligation to democracy and to the heritage of popular will to ask the electors to do so.
Predictably, Democrats will be outraged by a Bush Electoral College win and Republicans will hail it as the accepted system. But I speak not from party but from the basic idea that we are a democracy and that the people's view must be adopted.
The era in which we regarded ourselves as residents of our state rather than as citizens of our nation should have ended with the Civil War. How can a candidate for president seriously place his hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the laws of the United States when, in taking office, he betrays the most basic of its principles?
Change the system, but honor it for this election? That's a cop out. The system we have is called democracy. We don't need to change it, just follow it.
Should we be subject to the national nightmare of thwarted popular will, we can only hope that our leaders see beyond their ambition and legal entitlements and bow to the sovereignty of the will of the people of the United States of America.
(yawn)
He basically thinks conservatives are so stupid and easily lied too that he stuck it in our face.
Conservatives may not be easy to lie to, but Republicans sure are. These guys believe every lie that comes down the pike.
MitchellC, discostu: are you two in agreement with Mr. Dick?
Jim Durkin is way behind DICK Durbin here in Illinois, and I suppose a visit to shock jock Mancow (who IS a Republican) could liven things up. It certainly wouldn't magically win in the election, though.
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