Author: Dick Morris

All the focus is on the three major center-right candidates: Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and Chris Christie. By jumping out early, each is laying his particular claim to portions of their common base of donors, consultants, party leaders and voters. But from Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and Rick Santorum, we hear […]

Hillary, Bush and Romney — the three frontrunners — each find their candidacies greeted with a widespread response of “not again!” Voters wonder if we don’t have someone better than a retread Romney, yet another Bush or Hillary Clinton. But don’t sell Mitt Romney short. Republicans like losers and retreads. In fact, six of the […]

The minute that she heard about the march against terrorism in Paris, Hillary Clinton should have hopped on one of her Wall Street friend’s private jets and rushed to France. Think of the photo op and its political meaning. The former secretary of state and, perhaps, future president of the United States marching arm in […]

Q: What use is a pile of vetoes? A: Enough to win the next election.   The seminal moment President Clinton’s move to the center came on April 7, 1995 in a speech to the Newspaper Editors and Publishers in Dallas where he proclaimed that he was not elected president to amass a “pile of […]

Jeb Bush may be the most electable Republican against a generic Democratic candidate, but against Hillary Clinton, he would be the weakest nominee we could field. Just as Elizabeth Warren poses a unique threat to Hillary by appropriating for herself the best reasons to elect Hillary (i.e. first woman president), so Bush is the least […]

The quarterfinals of the 2016 race for the White House now pit Jeb Bush against Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry and John Kasich for the establishment wing of the party. And Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Rick Santorum and Ben Caron are battling for the tea party nod. Until both contests […]

Tear up the textbooks, a new pattern may be emerging among Latino voters. The conventional wisdom — that Hispanics habitually vote Democrat over the immigration issue — may be obsolete. Gallup found that support for President Obama’s amnesty order was primarily among the foreign born population — whether Latino or not. Hispanics born in the […]

Democrats seeking to explain their defeat and Republicans trying to take a lesson from their good fortune need look no further than “The New Class Conflict” by Joel Kotkin, published this past September. Kotkin argues that progressives/liberals/Democrats have veered away from a concern for the economics of the average American as they embrace what he […]

In the Clinton White House, I worked hard to help to craft the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in the aftermath of the crash of Hillary’s health care proposals. The idea, warmly embraced by the president, was that children’s health care should not be held hostage in the national debate over medical funding and insurance. […]

Speaker John Boehner’s plan to fund the government operations for a year, but excepting Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the bill is a great deal that conservatives should accept and celebrate. If Boehner can get the Democratic Senate — while it lasts — to agree to his proposed formula for avoiding a government shutdown, it […]

The first fruit of the Republican victory in the midterm election is the failure of President Obama’s efforts to give away everything to Iran in the nuclear negotiations. If Democrats had kept the majority on Nov. 4, we would all be wincing, as Obama would have triumphantly announced a “peace” deal with Iran that would […]

Obama’s amnesty for illegal immigrants will produce a disaster of unparalleled magnitude when the Obamacare employer mandate kicks in. Those granted amnesty will not be eligible for Obamacare. Amnesty will merely keep them safe from deportation. It won’t make them legal. And Obamacare can only go to citizens and legal noncitizens living in the U.S. […]

One of the truly unheralded disasters caused by Obamacare is the sharp reduction in spending on public education as Medicaid costs eat up an ever-larger share of state budgets. When Obama took office, the proportion of state spending that went to Medicaid was smaller than that for public education (K-12). In 2008, states spent 22.0 […]

The Democratic Party debates among presidential candidates — now slated to start in May or June of 2015 — pose a serious threat to Hillary’s candidacy. Her ability to suck up all the oxygen in the Democratic Party’s universe has succeeding in denying all but the most perfunctory coverage to her opponents. But the debates […]

After their massive defeats in the midterm elections many Democrats are calling for the party to move away from its emphasis on social issues and embrace a call for higher wages and an end to stagnant working class incomes. But they miss the point. Both in fact and in perception, their pro-immigration stance puts them […]

Lost amongst the scattered debris of the Democratic midterm disaster is another phenomenon: the widespread rejection of dynastic politicians. Four of the five defeated Democratic Senators (assuming a runoff loss by Louisiana’s Landrieu) belong to families whose famous last names paved the way for a cakewalk entry into high political office. Arkansas’ Mark Pryor is […]

The Supreme Court decision to hear challenges to the legality of giving subsidies to families and individuals who signed up for Obamacare through federal exchanges could lead to the de facto repeal of the program. And, with the Republican victory in the midterm elections, the next step could be the passage of the Republican version […]

The Republican Party now has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to define its brand by passing legislation through both houses of Congress. Even if President Obama vetoes the bills — as he will — they will answer the nagging question among the voters: What does the Republican Party stand for? Conventional political consultants will be content to […]

Amid the media focus on the basic data in the August jobs report — that the economy “added” 143,000 jobs — is the figure that will underscore the Republican efforts to take the Senate. During the month of August, the economy added about 659,000 jobs that went to foreign-born Americans (naturalized citizens, green card holders, […]

“Use your tools to fix their car,” a key tenet of the idea of triangulation, should be the lynchpin of the Republican midterm campaign of 2014. The president has found a compelling issue in income inequality. Now it is up to the Republicans — not to challenge the issue’s legitimacy as a national concern, but […]

The complex, mind-numbing debate over illegal immigration and America’s borders has suddenly become very simple. Once the various plans — the Gang of Eight Immigration bill, the Cornyn bill, the House GOP plan — dominated the debate. Now it’s much simpler. The question has crystalized to a choice between in and out. With the appearance […]

He lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 16 years later to Bill Clinton in 1992. Now, 24 years later, in 2016, he may run again. Jerry Brown may seem like ancient history, but he is only nine years Hillary’s senior and may well challenge her for the Democratic Party nomination. Coasting to an easy […]

By sending 1,000 National Guardsmen to the Texas/Mexico border, Governor Rick Perry is stepping up to challenge the president and fill the vacuum left by Barack Obama’s lack of leadership in a way other possible presidential candidates cannot match. His boldness and courage come as a welcome relief for the legions of Republicans and Independents […]

The contrast between the two women couldn’t be sharper. Hillary is the ultimate political insider, taking $20 million from Wall Street, including $5 million from Goldman Sachs. In two recent speeches to Goldman — at $200,000 a pop — Hillary spoke about why big banks shouldn’t be blamed for the financial crisis. “We’re all in […]

The worst day in Barack Obama’s life may have been the day he won a second term. Increasingly, he is the captive of events, which his own policies have set in motion, that are now out of control and coming back to haunt him. The last two and a half years of his second term […]

The never-ending Clinton money grab is more than $150 million deep. One of their most lucrative benefactors is Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs. Since leaving the White House, Bill and Hillary have collected more than $3 million from the banking goliath in campaign contributions, speaking fees and donations to their private foundation. In addition, Goldman […]

The political fallout caused by the massive migration of 90,000 children this year (52,000 so far) over the Mexican border completely recasts the immigration debate. No longer must Republicans hypothesize or may Democrat deny that amnesty catalyzes illegal immigration. The children of Central America have resolved that question by descending on our border, demanding admission […]

There’s only one word to describe Hillary Clinton’s inane defense of her wealth. She’s delusional. First, she said she was dead broke in a year that the Clintons made $16 million. Now, she just told a UK newspaper, The Guardian, that she’s not like “the truly well off.” She’s different. Why? Because she and her […]

Why did Hillary Clinton, one of America’s most seasoned political figures, fail so spectacularly in her recent television interviews, generating negative stories with each daily installment? One reason is that she became accustomed to a foreign press corps that didn’t cover either domestic politics or personal criticisms of her. So in her first series of […]

Divide and conquer sums up President Obama’s political strategy on immigration: Stop deportations. It will inflame conservatives and appease Latinos. The more conservatives are angered, the less chance genuine reform will have in the House. And the more Latinos are appeased by the end of deportations, the more they will be drawn to the Democrats, […]