New York Post columnist Dick Morris reminds me of Frank Sinatra (politically not musically). After Sinatra was dissed by the Kennedys because of his alleged mob connections, he became a steadfast Republican. After Morris was fired by the Clintons he has become a prime right-wing knee jerk.
His recent column "Hillary Rising" (6/21/05, p31) however takes the cake for sexism. After noting that "She now is seen favorably by 52% of the electorate and unfavorably by only 37%," he proceeds to explain this phenomenon, not by crediting her work in the Senate, but entirely by her association with Bill Clinton and a number of other male political figures.
He says, "Hillary's move to the center--including her frequent association, in public with the likes of Newt Gingrich, Bill Frist and Rick Santorum--is clearly paying dividends." As if these associations by any logic wouldn't mortally wound her popularity, he goes on to say, "It is also likely that Bill Clinton's constant appearances with President Bush Sr. and his highly visible efforts for the tsunami victims are helping rehabilitate his wife's image.
So, what is Morris' brilliant solution to this right-wing problem? He says, "President Bush needs to get his father to pull back on his public bobsey-twins identification with Bill [no matter how many lives they may be saving] and Republicans need to let Gingrich et al know of their displeasure with his newfound best-buddy relationship with Hillary."
I guess that means that the 52% of the people who see Hillary favorably, don't know anything about one of the Senate's most prominent figures except the men she is associated with. It's possible to be for or against Hillary, I'm not sure where I stand on that, but I assure you that when I do make up my mind, unlike Morris, it will be based on what she says and does, not on the men she is connected with by the right-wing media.
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