Dick Morris: My new mission is to make the GOP viable nationally again
“I’m trying to explore ways in which the Republican party can make itself viable nationally, so it can win national elections without sacrificing its basic principles,” he says. “That’s the mission I’ve set for myself.”
Republicans lost the race, he says, because they made the same mistake he did when he made his famously wrong prediction about a Romney landslide: Both errors stem from a misunderstanding of America’s demographic changes. When Republicans won in 2010, it was easy to believe things had returned to normal. But the 2012 presidential election showed that the GOP’s electorate model “was wrong, and it was wrong for all times.” Latinos, women, and gays are “voters who would like to be Republican,” he says. “The Republican party just isn’t letting them.” Those groups are critical to the GOP’s future success, he says.
Republicans don’t want to embrace immigration reform in part because they think Hispanics will vote for Democrats, he says. And Hispanics would vote Republican, except Republican resistance to immigration reform has convinced Hispanics that they’re a reviled group. Marco Rubio’s immigration bill would be “an excellent start” to break a “vicious cycle.”
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Yeah Dick….
you are a democrat bud….
“thanks”
harlekwin15 on February 8, 2013 at 1:03 PM
So he’s going to advise Democrats?
rbj on February 8, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Let’s hope his new mission doesn’t include predictions. He’s proven to be a bit less than effective there.
Warner Todd Huston on February 8, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Between him and Tokyo Rove we’ll have unbroken democrat rule for a generation.
wildcat72 on February 8, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Well, say he’s wrong. Say the Republicans can forfeit the female vote, Hispanic vote, Black vote and gay vote and win a national election. Not a local one, a national one.
Marcus on February 8, 2013 at 1:09 PM
Democrats think they can hold on to power by courting the Looter vote and cracking down on the Producers.
Which will win them elections (for awhile) but in the end will leave them holding on to nothing…
wildcat72 on February 8, 2013 at 1:11 PM
I’m reminded of the old saying: ” With friends like this, who needs enemies.”
meci on February 8, 2013 at 1:11 PM
We’re already going to get it. The GOP is headed for an epic shellacking in 2014 and 2016 since their reaction to the 2012 defeat has been to tell conservative voters they’re no longer welcome in the part.
Doomberg on February 8, 2013 at 1:13 PM
The GOP needs a new young female version of Lee Atwater!
jake-the-goose on February 8, 2013 at 1:17 PM
Why does the GOP even need to exist?
There is a huge political class out there that just wants power because that is where the money is. It’s sickening…
I hate modern politics… Oswald Spengler and Ezra Pound where right.
ninjapirate on February 8, 2013 at 1:21 PM
*were
ninjapirate on February 8, 2013 at 1:22 PM
What a putz.
Pork-Chop on February 8, 2013 at 1:22 PM
Actually; Republicans don’t want to embrace Immigration Reform Because;
1) It rewards Bad Behavior and encourages more bad behavior
2) We’ve experienced those Promises to Fix the Border “After” we deal with the people here illegally, and it didn’t turn out pretty.
If Republicans want to become viable nationally then they need to start nominating candidates who Believe what they say, it’s that simple.
jaydee_007 on February 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
GWB on February 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM
It has been proven in Detroit…the more people dependent on welfare-type programs the more likely they will vote for the Democrats.
This is the backbone of the Democratic party….more voters on welfare = more voters for the Democrats.
albill on February 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM
There is NO hope, due to this.
Schadenfreude on February 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Dems like him are great for providing advice–advice which is best not to follow. I suppose there is some value to keeping frenemies like that around.
Christien on February 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM
I haven’t watched Fox in months because of this guy.
ted c on February 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM
There is always hope.
thebrokenrattle on February 8, 2013 at 1:32 PM
So are we to take from this that “Latinos, women, and gays” didn’t vote in 2010? Somehow, I don’t buy that.
Bitter Clinger on February 8, 2013 at 1:33 PM
That is breathtaking. I hope that is a conservative mocking the left but I have a sinking feeling that it’s legit.
Kataklysmic on February 8, 2013 at 1:34 PM
Dick’s looking for more pay checks.
Dusty on February 8, 2013 at 1:38 PM
Wasn’t the 1986 amnesty signed by Reagan a cure to end the so-called “vicious cycle”?
This was the NYT way back when:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/18/us/1986-amnesty-law-is-seen-as-failing-to-slow-alien-tide.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Heh, “illegal alien tide”. You couldn’t possibly see the NYT using such scandalous words today, can you?
Punchenko on February 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Morris knew full well before the election who the core Democrat constituencies were. He just thought they were too lazy to vote, just as he assumed Republican leaners (aka the former “Reagan Democrats” and Perotistas ) would dutifully show up. Why is it imperative to curry favor with the former and not the latter?
Seth Halpern on February 8, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Shorter version:
“As a highly paid political consultant and analyst, I was totally and completely wrong in everything I said about the recent election. Now let me tell you what the Republican Party needs to do to win the next election.”
Shump on February 8, 2013 at 2:18 PM
No hope but there is always delusion.
I think that letter was prime troll bait. Which makes either me or the author delusional.
CorporatePiggy on February 8, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Morris has fairly reported and supported the Tea Party movement from the beginning. I would rather have 1000 Dick Morris’s in our camp than a single Karl Rove any day. I won’t hate on Morris. He blew the 2012 election results because he underestimated how much voting fraud by the left was about to occur.
trs on February 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM
FIFH
katiejane on February 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM
@trs: He also made excuses for Obama right through the summer of 2008 owing to Hillary’s being such a monster. Love him, love the “medicine” he hawks on his web site.
Seth Halpern on February 8, 2013 at 2:28 PM
here is NO hope, due to this.
Schadenfreude on February 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM
That was hilarious…
…and after I was through laughing, I thought:
You know what? Too many reading that will agree and not realize they are being lampooned, and that’s not funny.
Saltysam on February 8, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Yeah, that’s the problem, the Republicans just won’t allow that.
Dick Morris used to be relevant. By making ridiculous statements like “The Republican party just isn’t letting them,” he is pushing himself further and further away from relevance.
Ira on February 8, 2013 at 3:22 PM
Morris has no cred. Just leave.
CW on February 8, 2013 at 3:36 PM
Agree. Morris thinks this is France. They had a revolution based on redistribution via the guillotine. Our revolution was based on private property, personal liberty as inalienable rights.
What percent of that group would drop a radical progressive homosexual party, for one riddled with religionists. Unless Morris drops the base, they aren’t going to switch identities.
Truly religious aren’t going to deny their faith. He might get Pelosi Catholics, but, when you consider whom Morris seeks, it is the DEM party. As much as the religious black community disapproves of gay marriage, they love socialist redistribution more.
What part of Condoleeza Rice does he not understand. They will take any amnesty Rubio doles out, and take a Mexican President, or a Hillary. Rubio is the Colin Powell of the GOP. Wrong demographic for the game Morris envisions. Meanwhile, when Rubio signs on amnesty, the base exits.
Good luck to Morris. He is signing on the the band wagon. To think someone called him an opportunist. heh
entagor on February 8, 2013 at 4:46 PM