Don’t throw me in that briar patch

December 21, 2006

Maybe you like Hillary Clinton; maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re excited about Barack Obama; maybe you’re not. But before you dismiss either of them as presidential candidates, consider one very big upside to voting for them.

On the December 18 edition of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, guest host Karen Hanretty asked Fox News political analyst Dick Morris if he was “proposing a ticket of [Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY], [Sen.] Barack Obama [D-IL],” for the Democratic presidential nomination, to which Morris replied: “I’m not proposing it. I’m leaving the country if this happens.” Morris added, “I do not want Hillary Clinton controlling the FBI and the IRS and the CIA and the DEA.” When co-host Alan Colmes later asked Morris if he was “really going to leave” should Clinton win, Morris said, “I hope not to have to make that choice.”

I can see the bumper-stickers now, “Vote Clinton ’08 — To rid us of Dick Morris….”

Unfortunately, most people would just look at each other and say, “Dick who?”.

Not that it would bother me in the least if he did pack up and leave, but it would never happen. In any other country he might actually have to work for a living.

  • I do not want Hillary Clinton controlling the FBI and the IRS and the CIA and the DEA.”

    Now I’m not 100% sure, but isn’t Dick Morris a supporter of the W administration having whatever powers they deem necessary in order to catch terrorists? You know , no FISA court oversight for domestic wiretaps, no full disclosure to relevant congressional committees on detainee treatment and intelligence operations, etc. Now that Hillary Clinton may get those same unfettered powers, he’s not happy about it?

    Good riddance. Frankly, it’s the first really good reason I’ve heard to vote for Senator Clinton.

  • Love to see that happen Dick, but then again, doesn’t John McCain owe us all a suicide after a similar promise about the November elections? Republicans and lies … it just goes with the turf.

  • I’ll hold out for now. If we get Gibson, O’Reilly and Hannity to sign on, I’ll get out the checkbook.

  • The only reason I’ve ever thought warmly of a sucessful Hillary presidential run is the level of abject dispair and madness this would inflict in wingnuttia.

    Plus it would be a great object lesson to them on the importance of maintaining the bill of rights. I think declaring the remaining justices who voted in the majority in Bush vs. Gore as enemy combatants would be a great teachable moment.

  • What about the throngs of Hollywooders who were going to leave the country when Bush took office??? Oh wait, they too are still here gracing us will their presence, making their millions no less!

  • JRS Jr.,

    What about the throngs of Hollywooders who were going to leave the country when Bush took office???

    Got a citation to support that? I can provide one where McCain specifically said he’d commit suicide if the Dems took back Congress in the 2006 midterm elections.

  • Everytime the Republican’ts eviserated another American Constitutional Right, I was right here saying: “think what it would be like if Hillary was President!”. Now Dick Morris finally gets the message? 😕

    What a chump!

    Like Petorado, I’m still waiting for McCan’t ritual suicide.

    Like Edo, I’d like to see a citation there JRS.

  • The skeletons in Dick’s clost are rattling his brain. It must be hard to think when you have to drug yourself to sleep every night, just to get any sleep between the endless nightmares of Democratic subpoenas.

  • Edo, here’s one:

    from Baldwin: “I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I’m not necessarily going to leave the United States.” Off-camera female reporter: “You’re not really going anywhere.” Baldwin: “I might go on a long vacation.”

    Last time I looked he was pulling in a big fat check from 30 Rock and the Departed!

  • It’s not “Dick who” it’s “whose Dick?” as in, does he have one?

    Actually, he’s a perfect example of that old American character, “the cracking trader.”

  • Nice Cites JRS.

    Not that I care much about Alec after he dropped out of playing Jack Ryan in the second Tom Claney movie.

  • I’m still waiting for Hannity to martyr himself because of the Democrats taking back Congress.

    C’mon, Sean, you wuss, where’s your dedication?

    “I do not want Hillary Clinton controlling the FBI and the IRS and the CIA and the DEA”

    Apparently, Dick has been engaging in some rather nefarious business since his time in the Clinton White House.

  • If Dick Morris knew anything about anything of importance he’d know it’s better to be here in the United States rather than anywhere else in the world since the CIA is the organization with the least restrictions on its activities (unless you’re Osama bin Laden, in which case you’re totally safe). The FBI, IRS, DEA, pshaw! Hardly able to do anything.

  • ***I do not want Hillary Clinton controlling the FBI and the IRS and the CIA and the DEA***
    ———————————LimpDick Morris

    Well, of course he doesn’t. Those agencies just might start doing their jobs, and our prison system would be overwhelmed by the mountainous influx of theocrats, neocons, Reich pundits, and other such nefarious creatures. We’d have to bring the army home from Iraq, just to pay for building all of those new prisons…..

  • Hannity & Colmes has a guest host named Hanretty?? That sounds like a silly joke, akin to Steve Forbes writing about a “fictional” hero named Teve Torbes (an old SNL joke). I know all the Fox dopes sound alike, but now they’re even copying the same names…

  • Ah, but I was going to leave the country if that extreme right winger Ronald Reagan, who ran in 1976 and failed to get the Republican nomination, were to ever win the presidency.

  • Hubby and I seriously considered emigrating to Canada or a friendly European country after the smirking chimp was re-elected. We decided to stay and fight the fascist theocrat-wannabes to help try and restore the USA ideals we all used to be so proud of.

    We’re making progress.

  • Anybody who thinks the US is in sad shape now will be in for a rude awakening if Hillary Clinton becomes President. Hillary is a control freak who “wants to chat” now because she thinks that is what the public wants to hear but lets face it – many people in NY – supposedly the Senator’s HOME state – don’t want her for President. Almost anyone would be better.

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