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Arguably America’s most prominent American political consultant, Dick Morris tells NewsMax that President Bush’s key national address on immigration reform Monday night was "a great speech.” "It included all the elements it had to,” said Morris, who noted the president is living through record low approval ratings. But Morris conjectures Bush’s border plan may help lay the ground work for a comeback. Morris is almost universally credited with piloting Bill Clinton’s stunning comeback re-election victory in 1996 after the Democrats lost Congress to the Republicans two years before. The presidential plan to beef up the southern border fence in both...

The most recent poll by USA Today clearly marks the end of the era of international focus and energy triggered by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Now, forgetting the lessons of that day, Americans are again turning inward and rejecting involvement with the rest of the world. To most politicians, pundits and journalists inside the Beltway, American voters can move to the left or the right on foreign-policy questions. But the voters themselves perceive a third option: to step backward.Isolationism, a largely ignored theme in our politics, is growing rapidly in the wake of the sacrifices we are making...

Suddenly, thankfully, it does not seem that Hillary Clinton is on an automatic trajectory to become the next Democratic nominee for president. Two recent polls suggest problems that may loom in her path. From New York state comes the latest John Zogby poll, forecasting a race for the Senate instead of a cakewalk. For the first time since GOP wannabe Jeanine Pirro dropped out of the race, polls indicate that New Yorkers hare having second thoughts about re-electing Hillary. While the former first lady was leading her main opponent, John Spencer, 61-31 in Zogby’s Jan. 13 poll, her lead is...

**** Dick Morris....states that the United States would be in more danger if our enemies infiltrated Mexico than if Mexico infiltrated the United States (PostOpinion, April 3)......being that Mexico has the most corrupt government in this hemisphere, I would rather see Mexico infiltrated by our enemies. Corruption in Mexico would come to a screeching halt. The Bronx **** It makes me ill to think about the current Mexican illegal-immigration....... I also sincerely feel that this is our final wake-up call for all Americans to fight this mass incursion.......What will happen when the millions of illicit migrants realize that they are...

How The GOP Can Survive The Immigration Debate Dick Morris Wednesday, March 29, 2006 The immigration bill pending in Congress poses as crucial a test for GOP efforts to reach out to Hispanic voters as the 1964 Civil Rights Act did in determining the future partisan preferences of America's African-Americans... http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/3/29/143533.shtml

Dick Morris: Clinton on Dubai Payroll Former President Bill Clinton is up to his eyeballs in dealings with Dubai, his former top political adviser has revealed. According to Dick Morris, author of the best-selling book, "Condi vs, Hillary," Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, now involved in a firestorm over its deal to take over some of the operations at six major U.S. ports. "Bill Clinton is a senior adviser - a paid adviser - to a company called Ukepa which recently set up a relationship with a group called the Yucaipa Investment group to...

DICK MORRIS: CLINTON IS A PAID AGENT OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DUBAI by Mia T, 03.03.06   A CALL TO IMPEACH CLINTON IN ABSENTIA by Mia T, 11.17.05         id you see it? More to the point, did the American press? bill clinton made page one of Al Jazeera today. A schizophrenic mix of schadenfreude and agitprop, it was the story of an impeached ex-president of America trashing America--to standing Os--in the Arab state of Dubai--in the middle of a war zone--only several hundred miles from the American troops. And, to rub it in, the...

THE most effective at tacks in politics are those that stop your opponent from campaigning in his or her usual style. When Democrats called Richard Nixon "negative" in the runup to the 1960 presidential, it made it much more difficult for him to wage the type of slash-and-burn campaign that had animated his past races. When Republicans called Bill Clinton a "flip-flopper" during his first term, it made it harder for him to reach out to all constituencies and reach across ideological barriers as he instinctually always wanted to do. Now, Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee,...

Sources close to New York civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton tell me that Hillary used his annual Martin Luther King Day forum to liken the House Republican majority's conduct of the House of Representatives to a "plantation" because she fears a Sharpton challenge in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary. Hillary also fears that if Sharpton were to challenge her, it could weaken her in a possible contest against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the fall, if Rice were to be the GOP nominee. "She is afraid of Condi," one of Sharpton's key people said. "She did not attend...

From The NEW YORK POST: THE BAGEL CANDIDACY By DICK MORRIS July 30, 2004 -- I LOVED Bill Clinton's speech. I was inspired by John Edwards. Barack Obama thrilled me. Max Cleland made me grow as a person as I heard him . . . And then there was John Kerry. All around him was eloquence but, in the center of the bagel, there was a speech that was a letdown. And did he just tell 140,000 men and women fighting in Iraq that they are there because of a mistake? By insisting that we are in Iraq because we...

THE CENTRAL question facing the John Kerry campaign is whether to tilt left or go down the middle this week at the Democratic national convention in Boston. While American political conventions do not make any important decisions — everything is arranged in advance — they amount to a four-day opportunity to showcase the party programme on prime-time television. Even though the broadcast networks constantly cut back on their coverage of the conventions, cable news channels more than pick up the slack. In 2000 half of all American voters watched more than four hours of convention coverage and a quarter, the...

Former Clinton White House political guru Dick Morris is urging his Bush administration counterpart Karl Rove to go negative on presidential rival John Kerry hard and fast. "Bush needs to come out of the box with negative commercial after negative commercial," he told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" Tuesday night, after Kerry's nine state sweep locked up the nomination. "I ran with Bill Clinton 14 months of $40 million in advertising," Morris recalled. "Bush is gonna run five months of $150 million of advertising. And in eight weeks, John Kerry is going to be a distant shadow of...

Al Rantel and Larry Elder are on KABC with Dick Morris. Dick said that the DemocRATS slit their throats tonight. Kerry was not vetted. He will be seen as a Dukakis liberal. Bush will spend 150 million dollars in ads up to convention time. It is too late. Kerry will have the delegates and cannot be un-nominated. Kerry looked like a reasonable candidate after Howard Dean. When his record is exposed, he will be in deep trouble. Bush must not be nice --- he must use negative ads, go after him, and define him. Possible for Hillary to take VP...

Karl Rove must be crying That which the Democratic Party bosses — and Bill and Hillary Clinton — could not control, they chose to kill. Despite summoning a cyber-roots enthusiasm unequalled in decades, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean committed the unpardonable sin of failing to kowtow to the leaders of his party. He paid for it with a third place finish in Iowa. The months of daily pounding, animated by diligent negative research by minions of Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons and disseminated into the national political bloodstream by the likes of Chris Lehane, proved effective. Dean, subjected to a...

Very few presidential candidates could survive the pounding that Howard Dean has taken in recent weeks. As the front-runner in the Democratic nomination process, he has been the object of a virtual daily barrage of articles slamming him and questioning his judgment. Some of the shots come from his political opponents, but many more come from the media. The political writers are instinctively eager to investigate a front-runner and are especially eager to stop Dean's momentum because they fear rightly that he can't beat George W. Bush. But other problems are self-created. Dean seems not to realize that everything he...

Don't look now, Howard Dean, but Bill and Hillary Clinton are leaving the Democratic Party - and they're taking the party's campaign cash with them. So says Dick Morris, the longtime Clinton advisor who masterminded Mr. Clinton's presidential reelection victory in 1996. "Dean seems destined to win the nomination and with it control of the party," Morris writes in today's New York Post. "So the Clintons are moving out." Morris sees the creation of alternative fundraising operations like Americans Coming Together as a bid by the Clintons to protect their assets while the Vermont liberal leads the official party to...

<p>GEORGE W. Bush's job approval ratings are dropping a point every other week. Most polls now have his support down in the high or mid-50s. Pollster John Zogby has them at 53 percent - a huge drop from the low 70s he was registering just two months ago. The lower Bush drops, the more likely it is that Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2004. She and her husband cannot permit a Democrat not named Clinton to beat Bush in '04. If one does, she can't run in '08 against an incumbent Democratic president. She'd have to wait until 2012, by which time she would be 65 and out of the White House for 12 years. The weaker Bush gets, the more likely a Hillary Clinton candidacy becomes.</p>