Former top Democrat gunslinger and Clinton aide Dick Morris told radio show host John Catsimatidis on Sunday that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is not exactly a powerful juggernaut destined for overwhelming victory. He termed it, “It’s like a suicide march with them. But, you know, they’re pretty, pretty stubborn people.”
Morris went on to say he’d prefer New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for the nomination. He thinks rank and file Democrats will write Cuomo in at the convention but Democrat leadership will squash it. He also doubts Biden can beat President Trump in November. Cuomo has squelched any possibility of his nomination this year. Morris has even questioned the mental awareness of Joe Biden and suggested that issue could be an impediment to Biden serving as president.
On several fronts Morris likely has a good point. On the fall election, the nation has seen this before in 1972 and 1984. Democrats lost presidential elections in those years, and lost them badly, because they nominated candidates far to the Left of the voting public. In 1972 it was South Dakota Senator George McGovern. In 1984 it was senator and former Vice-President Walter Mondale. Biden is more in the Mondale mold. Not a screaming meemie, but willing to make common cause with the hard left to get elected. History tells Democrats that never works out. But Democrats don’t read history, or they wouldn’t be modern Democrats.
Morris, despite his odd personal peccadilloes, is one of the most successful Democrat operatives of the modern era. He’s in the Carville League, which is just below the GOP Atwater League. Republican ace Lee Atwater still reigns supreme in American political consulting history as top dog.
Working with Bill Clinton, Morris came up with triangulation —placing a candidate in an advantageous position on an issue by using a supposed moderate stance to push an opponent into a corner— and was instrumental in Clinton political victories at the state level and above. But he ran afoul of Hillary Clinton and now has been banished to the nether reaches of the Democrat political orbit.
This piece was written by David Kamioner on April 20, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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