Morris is Wrong Again
Dick Morris is buying the Democrats’ voters-are-mad-at-incumbents spin:
Republicans celebrate the upheaval of the Democrats in California. Democrats chuckle at Bush’s dive in the polls. Republicans have their share of fun in watching first Howard Dean and then Wesley Clark eclipse the best and the brightest among the Democratic candidates.But the fact is that none of these three political earthquakes is directed at a party.
All are directed against the political establishment in general. It is the political class that the voters are angry at, not just its practitioners in either party. Voters are in such a froth at the political establishment that anything is possible as this election year takes shape.
Morris is very wrong. There’s a giant hole in his argument: the 2004 presidential field. If voters are mad at incumbents, then how come President Bush faces no primary challenge? How come the most prominent Democrats – Al Gore, Tom Daschle and Hillary Clinton – declined to get into the presidential race?
The voters-are-mad-at-incumbents argument is wishful thinking by Democrats who’ll clutch at any straw to get them out of the despondency they must be feeling now, having lost the White House, House, Senate and the majority of governorships including the four largest states in the country.
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