Bill's Notes

This is just depressing.

Morris: Hillary will be ‘worst president we’ve ever seen’

Dick Morris is no fan of Sen. Hillary Clinton, having spent much of the past decade writing and speaking out against her. And he took his always-quotable opinions to the offices of Americans for Tax Reform Wednesday at a breakfast sponsored by The American Spectator.

Dick’s greatest hits:

» Although Barack Obama is an “exciting phenomenon,” he is the equivalent of “political stem cells: You can make him into any tissue you want.”

» “It is in the national interest that, if there is a Democratic president, that it not be Hillary.”

» “The Republican field is like the New York Yankees: They’ve got a pitching rotation of really great names who are 45 years old and who probably won Cy Young Awards when they were younger. But they’ll have a sore arm by the World Series and will end up on the [disabled list]. Republicans need to look to the minor leagues.”

» He laid out the political future: “Hillary will be the next president, and she’ll be the worst president we’ve ever seen.” No matter what happens, the situation in Iraq will “assure that the GOP gets massacred in 2008 congressional elections.” In 2010, the Republicans will take back the Congress — “Hillary will give Republicans the same gift she gave them in 1994” — and they’ll win the presidency in 2012, but thanks to demographic shifts favoring [Democrats] (namely the rising Hispanic and African-American populations), “that will be the last Republican president we’ll ever see.”

I do believe the Dems could nominate a Yellow Dog and win in 2008, and that the GOP will likely retake Congress in 2010 and win back the presidency in 2012. However, I didn't know the demographics were that much against the GOP.

This is depressing. But hey, it's not like anyone can predict the future. He's talking 14 years out -- that's several political lifetimes. Lots can happen.

Hillary Clinton made a joke about "evil, bad men." Around the conservative-o-sphere, some (far from all) have seen this has a gaffe. I disagree. I saw the video. She was funny. Hillary showed a different side of herself, an ability to laugh at herself, and someone comfortable with herself, at least for that moment. That's usually a good thing.

Hillary has been portrayed in times past as a dragon lady, who only stayed with Bill because it gave her access to power. I disagree. What I see is a woman who intellectually believes she believes herself to have built a life on enlightened, feminist principles, and to her dismay finds herself helplessly stuck in an old country song, against her will in love with a no-good cheating dog she knows she'll never have the strength to leave because she doesn't want to.

Anyway, I'm writing this because we better get used to Hillary. We may be seeing a lot of her.