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Richard Samuel "Dick" Morris (born November 28, 1946) is an American political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant.

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The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

Campaign, Cheap, Key, Keys, Political, Running

A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade. '

Disregard, Light, Political, Seek, Thinking

In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

Class, Cut, Cutting, Federal, Names, Stimulus

President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39. 6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.

Average, Charitable, President, Prosperity, Raising, War

Nothing works on the campaign trail like attacks on candidates for bad attendance. It alienates people on both sides of every issue and reflects a callous disregard of the work of the people. The feeble argument that "I'm running for president" isn't much of a rebuttal: George W. Bush finds time to be president, and he's running too.

Bad, Finds, Issues, People, Running, Works

The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments. )

House, Leaving, Parties, Party, Percent, Representatives

Americans will gladly support their president when he attacks nations that sponsor or harbor terrorists. We will even back him in a preemptive war against a country that might attack us. But when we start sending troops around the world to stabilize nations that, if left to disintegrate, might become breeding grounds for terror, it's a step too far for most Americans.

Attacks, Country, Sponsor, Start, Support, War

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

Events, Four, Imposed, President, Spend, Years

Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

Growth, Investment, Moving, Needs, Stirs

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

Aggressive, Decision, Modern, Political, Politics

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

Bad, Fear, Matter, Real, World

. . . the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Cast, Income, Pay, Politics, Top, Top 10

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and
or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Democrat, Misguided, Politics, Things, Washington, Wrong

When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.

Cuts, Cutting, Economic, Limits, President

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Money, Political, Politics, Position, Take, Want

Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh.

Believe, Rocks, Stream, Swimming

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

Political, Vision, Politics, Substitute, Clear

Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave the labor force; and He has cut illegal immigration by casting the United States into a permanent job shortage. Some achievements!

Cutting, Giving Up, Jobs, Millions, Slashed, Unemployment

The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.

Class, Helps, Rhetoric, Stupid, Warfare

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

Campaign, Contributors, Doe, Energy, Paying, Pork

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