Political Wire: Morris: McCain is No Front-Runner

[Pirate Smile]

Morris: McCain is No Front-Runner

Dick Morris on Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential chances: "You can’t be a front-runner for your party’s nomination and win 5 percent of the vote in a regional straw poll, finishing fourth, behind Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Virginia Sen. George Allen. While McCain still leads in the national polls (not counting former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani), he is no genuine front-runner. He lacks the requisite enthusiasm he would need among core Republicans to cop that title."

"He is, in fact, more of a stalking horse, a place to store voter preferences while the other candidates for the nomination break through their low thresholds of name recognition."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/03/14/morris_mccain_is_no_frontrunner.html

This makes sense to me (even though it is the toe-sucker).

edit to add the article in The Hill:



Fourth-place finish in Memphis shows McCain’s no front-runner

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is destined to find that his love of the Republican Party will be unrequited.

His dismal showing in the recent Nashville straw poll underscores the fact that while he is the Democrats’ and independents’ favorite Republican, he’s not the Republicans’ top choice by a long shot. Twenty years of independence, courage, creativity and conscience will do that for you (as Joe Lieberman is finding out across the aisle).

-snip- (this is the part I posted above)

It’s a shame because McCain and Giuliani are the only two frequently mentioned candidates who could actually get elected and defy the likely disaster the GOP faces in ’08.

Giuliani, for his part, is even less likely than McCain to win the nomination. His pro-choice, pro-gun-control, pro-affirmative-action, pro-gay-rights, pro-immigration positioning is enough to give the party ulcers. The support he now shows in polls he gets just because the party faithful only see him in terms of his splendid 9/11 record.

None of the remaining candidates has a prayer to win the general election, although they are likely party-line enough to win the nomination. But their long histories of party loyalty and fealty to the right-wing agenda will do little to attract the swing voters of the next election: Hispanics and women.

http://hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/031506.html

[yourout]

1. Dick Morris is an ass.

Last night he said Iraq was no were near a civil war. It is there way of negotiating.

What a dipshit.

[wisteria]

4. LOL, you are absolutely correct. An elephants ass.n/t

[AtomicKitten]

2. Dick Morris is an assclown.

[kanrok]

3. Dick Morris is an assclown ass.

Keep it going.

[AtomicKitten]

6. An assclown among assclowns.

[Pirate Smile]

5. LOL, of course he is, but this is the first time I've seen McCain's

position explained this way and it makes sense to me so I thought I'd share the info. :D

I don't want McCain to get the nomination and I never thought he could make it to the Repub nomination but I've been getting a little nervous because of his over-the-top, off-the-wall, Bush ass-kissing of late.

I'm glad the GOP wingnuts still hate his guts.

He has disgusted me since the 2004 election.

The man has completely sold his soul.

[win_in_06]

7. I don't think McCain sold his soul, I think people took him for

something he was not back in 2000. He has always been a fairly conservative repug, just with an independent streak.

George Allen will be the candidate we need to look out for.

[KT2000]

12. Projection

People want a hero so badly, they project those needs onto McCain and Colin Powell. The funny thing is that they have never said their were what people hoped - just traded on it while they STILL kiss *'s ass.

[Radical Activist]

8. Its name recognition

This is the point where someone always points out that Lieberman was the Democratic front runner in the polls at this point in the last cycle. I always love it when that happens.

Oh yeah, Dick Morris is a no talent assclown.

[Rickenbacker]

9. Help

Hello everyone I posted this message before but I recieved no support. I need help from everyone on this site my name is Tim. I was trying to defend this other guy from all these right wing wack jobs who are pretty much praising Bush. This guy name Chris Martin told him to STFU when he was trying to expose the right wing media. I need everyone to post a message to tell this guy he's a moron and praise the other guy who was trying to exspose the right wing media. Here's the link http://www.lonestarball.com/story/2006/3/14/16336/6360

[liberalpragmatist]

10. Problem is, Dick Morris is always WRONG

I think that McCain's weak showing IS ominous for him. But I'm wary of anything sadi by anyone whose name rhymes with "Stick Taurus" .

[TexasLawyer]

11. "independence, courage, creativity and conscience" ??!!??

McCain? C'mon, the man is a whore. McCain has none of these qualities, and he should never be president.

For anyone who missed it, read Paul Krugman's editorial in the NYT from Monday of this week.

[mrgorth]

13. Oh Jesus Christ

Never, ever believe anything Morris says. McCain lost that vote because he TOLD the crowd NOT to vote for him (essentially because he knew he'd lose to home team Frist). McCain is the front runner.