It’s well known how much he hates Hillary, so his statements are pretty predictable. As to whether or not she’d really “mess up” if she’s elected? Well, depends on what you mean by “mess up”. I assume from the context that Morris was talking about messing up politically, and I think that this could be true in that she doesn’t really have the same finesse or personality that her husband had at all. She’s already pretty unpopular among those who favor the left wing of her party and while that doesn’t matter that much as a Senator, she’ll have to deal with keeping their support if her role changes to president (not to mention, of course, that she’s highly unpopular with the GOP.) I think if she were to have a Democratically controlled Congress in her first term, it might prove impossible for her to work with all of the various factions, and I think she lacks the charisma to work across the aisle if the GOP were to take control as they did during Bill’s first term.

Care to point out a previous “pundit” who had to leave the business because they were wrong. I cannot think of any. Look at how so many people were totally wrong at the old Soviet Union but are still around pontificating about politics.

Dick Morris is just another DC hack with another prediction. However, he is probably correct that the Democrats will win big in 2008. However, I think he is forgetting about redistricting in 2010/2012. By that time, the Democrats will probably be able to eliminate another 30 or so Republican seats in the House but some Republicans in blue states like Maine, Pa, NH will be out of office. The end result of changing demographics and chaing voting patterns is the US becoming as single party politics as Mass. is today.

The question then will be to determine if the Democratic Party will be able to restrain themselves while knowing that they cannot be voted out of power.

Now, no matter how right or wrong they are, they still get plenty of exposure on the cable chatfests. Few interviewers have the guts to point out past errors of judgement, and strong biases (like the one Morris still has against the Clintons) seldom come up. I guess its because of the blend of news and entertainment, journalism and corporate interests.