Dick Morris on Hillary: Personal attacks will only embolden her

[truthpusher]

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/061505.html

Personal attacks on Hillary will only embolden her
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I am no defender of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s, to put it mildly. But the recent charges in Ed Klein’s book to the effect that she is a closet homosexual or that Bill raped her and that this act triggered Chelsea’s conception are as crazy as the list that was circulating around of the 20 or so people the Clintons allegedly had killed.

These accusations do not belong in our public dialogue. They hit below the belt and tend to discredit the more serious and sober concerns so many of us have about the danger she would present in high office.

How can anyone say if the charges are true? Ed Klein is a respected author, a former editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine and the foreign editor for Newsweek. He would not have written these charges without some substantiation. But these accusations (in The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President) are highly personal and have little bearing on what kind of president Hillary would make.

Why can’t her critics confine their attacks to the relevant and the obvious: that she would not be a good president and has not been a good senator?

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Anyone who knows both of them realizes how different. He is brighter than she and much more creative. He is intuitive and instinctual, while she works hard to compensate for her lack of these qualities. He crafts novel solutions to important problems; she learns the party line by rote and glories in its recitation. He is an innovator; she is a gladiator. She has discipline that he lacks and self-control he has never even attempted.

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/061505.html

[colonel odis]

1. poor dick. carrying around all that hatred for the woman.

she really must have pissed him off when she got him canned.

[lancdem]

6. The Clintons never did anything to him to get him pissed

He became a RW whore for money, period. The book he wrote right after leaving the Clinton WH is actually positive toward Hillary.

BTW, Morris is right, however, that attacks won't stop her; she's a very strong, tough lady who's already survived hell.

[Gunit_Sangh]

11. re: morris

Didn't Clinton fire him from his 96 campaign because it became known he had prostitues in his hotel room during policy conversations? He became persona-non-grata in Democratic circles ... but the family values party had no problem hiring him.

[struggle4progress]

13. He was always a RW whore. It was stupid of BC to let Morris within ..

.. half a mile of the WH. The prostitution thing was deliberately designed to stir up the Republican base ...

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. "Embolden" ?

When men are aggressive, it's touted as something akin to hero worship. When women are aggressive, they are still culturally maligned as interfering bitches. The use of the outdated word "embolden", gives rise to trashy romance novel mindset; Women are not meant to outstrip men for rank and power in our culture. This article only reinforces that BS.

[Gays_R_Family]

3. Couldn't go toe to toe with Hillary ...

He's mad cuz he never got to put her toes in his mouth.

Sorry, I had to say it ...

Dick Morris is lower than dirt.

[TriMetFan]

5. Thats so funny.

[MaryBear]

4. So he gets to repeat the personal attacks

in the guise of opposing them, all the while adding his own.

[lancdem]

7. He also tries to give legitimacy to Klein's charges

by saying there must be some substance to them. Bullshit; several have already been debunked before the book was even released. After his hit jobs on the Kennedys and Jackie O., he is not a "respected author."

[Minnesota_Lib]

8. If this is true......

If personal attacks on Hillary only embolden her, isn't the only political strategy the right knows playing right into her strengths? LOL

[lancdem]

9. They're desperate, and this is what desperate people do

[greenbriar]

10. but look at the praise he gave Big Dog...

Anyone who knows both of them realizes how different. He is brighter than she and much more creative. He is intuitive and instinctual, while she works hard to compensate for her lack of these qualities. He crafts novel solutions to important problems; she learns the party line by rote and glories in its recitation. He is an innovator; she is a gladiator. She has discipline that he lacks and self-control he has never even attempted.

[bemildred]

12. The toe sucker could not find his own ass with both hands and a road map.