Here’s a perfect example of why Dick Morris is a complete fraud. In only 4 days he went from warning Romney not to pick Paul Ryan because his Medicare plan would be almost impossible to defend against to praising the pick as “inspired” and “terrific.” Here’s what he said on August 8:
MORRIS: The problem is that he came out in the first Ryan budget for replacing Medicare with a voucher system. And he’s since backed off that. He said, No, no, you don’t need to do that. But you can keep your current Medicare or go to the voucher system and we’ll make the voucher system so attractive that most people will make that shift. But Obama’s not going to let him get away with that and it would give Obama a really big issue to beat Romney with. So even though I love Paul Ryan, I hope that Romney does not select him.
And here is on August 13, after the pick was made:
MORRIS: He will destroy Biden in the debates. And I am so looking forward to his having a primetime Wednesday night speech at the convention. That speech could be as much of a turning point, not just in the election, but in American political history, as Sarah Palin’s speech was at the 2008 convention because finally he’ll have a large, national audience, where he can really articulate and lay out what his thinking is in terms of the budget, and the disaster that we face if we’re not careful. It could be one of those seminal moments that changes how people think about an issue.” …
“So I think it’s an inspired choice,” Morris concluded. “I think it clearly sets to rest any conservative’s doubt about the intentions of Mitt Romney and clear the decks, we’ve got a fight on our hands.”
Anything it takes to keep himself ingratiated to the Fox News audience.
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raven
August 16, 2012 at 11:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Follow the money. Even complete frauds need to eat.
Looks like Morris is looking for a job this campaign season.
d cwilson
August 16, 2012 at 11:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hey, don’t blame Morris for seeking out a paycheck. Prostitutes generally charge extra for toe-sucking.
yoav
August 16, 2012 at 11:33 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You mean the point when the republican campaign went up in flames, Dick?
busterggi
August 16, 2012 at 11:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Republicans seem to be uniformly bi-polar.
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
August 16, 2012 at 11:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And when the Republican powers-that-be click their fingers, they fall into line and start reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Party.
Ed Brayton
August 16, 2012 at 12:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Actually, Palin’s speech at the convention was a big boost to the McCain campaign (though it certainly wasn’t a “turning point” in anything). They went up in the polls after that and her approval ratings were sky high. The turning point was her interviews with Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson; that was when people realized that she couldn’t answer policy questions sans script without sounding like an idiot. And from that moment on, her approval numbers plunged.
infraredeyes
August 16, 2012 at 12:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Surely the ability to about-face that quickly makes him the perfect Romney supporter.
slc1
August 16, 2012 at 12:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re Ed Brayton @ #6
I think I would argue that the temporary boost to the McCain campaign was merely the usual bounce that occurs after a convention. This phenomena has been well studied for many years and, AFAIK, has occurred for every candidate just after the convention at which he/she was nominated.
Crip Dyke, MQ, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden
August 16, 2012 at 2:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t think Morris is referencing the right thing here:
Instead of “political history,” I think Morris means “reality TV history”. Wasn’t that the moment when she realized that she could really and truly get her face on lots and lots of TVs? All over the nation, even, not just in Juneau and Anchorage?
Reality TV has never been the same since. And now we have the reality TV of FoxNews – every bit as true to life as The Bachelor – which will fundamentally change, at least in that it cannot ever speak ill of Paul Ryan’s political baggage again.
But Morris’ confusion is understandable. Many people in the US can’t tell the difference between politics and reality TV.
F
August 16, 2012 at 5:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Bets on whether that actually happens.
imthegenieicandoanything
August 16, 2012 at 9:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
After hearing about him for years now, I consider this “Dick Morris” to be an internet-based urban legend, like the alleged rock band “Nickelback.”
Really, it was fairly cleverly don at first, but for the entire Obama Presidency the joke has gone from something with the slightest verisimilitude to out right parody: he’s an overdrawn imitation of some extravagantly grotesque Dickens’ character.
If people have fun pretending to react to such a fiction, I’ll not stand in the way, but “Dick” simply isn’t believable and does not exist.