Dick Morris. Idiot.
GIBSON: This is THE BIG STORY, I’m John Gibson, you decide 2008. If Hillary Clinton makes it back to the White House, will the New York Senator be the worst president we’ve ever seen? My next guest insists not only will she make it to the White House, she’ll definitely be the absolute worst American leader. Former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris, clearly not a Hillary fan, which is no big secret. He’s already working hard on a new documentary film that he says will expose the real Hillary. With me now Dick Morris, of course you can sign up to get his free column on the web at dickmorris.com. So Dick, Hillary, do you think she’ll win?
DICK MORRIS, FORMER CLINTON ADVISOR: Yes.
GIBSON: And do you think she’ll be the worst. Let’s start with the win.
MORRIS: Warren G. Harding would give her a run, but yeah, she would be pretty bad. If you read the John Dean biography of Warren Harding, it rehabilitates him a little bit. Comment: Um. Has a mass of America read Dean’s Warren Harding biography? I don’t see that happening with Hillary.
Will she win? She will win because the central reality in politics today is increasing turnout. More and more of these voting age Americans that don’t vote are coming out to vote and they up to now have been evenly Democrat-Republican. A little more Republican than Democrat. But the white men have maxed out. There aren’t more to vote. Unless you live in Chicago, they can’t vote twice. So I think that — you know, in `96, 49 percent of voting age people voted. In 2000, 51 and in `04, 55. If Hillary runs, it will be up to 60. And those will overwhelmingly be single women who vote overwhelmingly Democrat. They are 27 percent of the population, but they’re only 23 percent of the vote in `04, 19 percent in 2000. Hillary runs, they can be 27 percent and that’s 10 million new votes. There aren’t a lot of white men that would vote Republican that didn’t come out.
GIBSON: So McCain just gets rolled over?
MORRIS: McCain does. I think that Giuliani is the only Republican candidate that could really defeat her.
GIBSON: Now, what will she do as president leads you to conclude she would be the worst?
MORRIS: The first three things that I think Hillary will do as president are raise taxes, and by that I mean repeal the income tax cuts and the Bush package, certainly for the top and maybe for the middle bracket. It’s going to go back up to 39 or 40 percent that her husband put it at. I think she repeals the capital gains tax cut. I think that she cancels the attempts to take down the estate tax. And she will have a Democratic majority with her that will make it possible for her to pass it.
Secondly, I think she changes welfare reform so she makes things like job training and going to school and answering a matchbook ad for a truck driver school acceptable alternatives to employment to get welfare benefits, ruining the program. And thirdly, I think she reintroduces her health care plan that she has never repudiated. But this time it passes because the Fortune 500 companies will get behind it because they want to get rid of the health care burden. So… while we were sleeping, the Democratic Party has become the Party of Big Business?
GIBSON: All right, so how does that make her the worst ever except for Warren G. Harding?
MORRIS: If you agree with those three things, she’s the best ever.
She is the closest thing we have to a European socialist in the U.S. Um… How about Senator Bernie Sanders, who self identifies himself as a Socialist in the European Democratic Socialist sense of the term? Idiot. She believes that instead of 32 or 33 percent of our economy going to government, it should be in the high 40’s. And it should include free higher ed., free day care, free health care, and so on. And I think that’s a — can be a disaster if that happened in the United States. And I think she has a Nixonian sense of ethics. I think that I do not want this woman this woman? controlling the FBI and the IRS and the CIA and the DEA and the NSA.
GIBSON: Dick, this is going to be the subject of your documentary about Hillary, all of these things?
MORRIS: Yeah, but Hillary will be the star. We’re going to have her in all of her different hairdos and disguises saying all the things that are not true, and then we’ll context them and explain what the truth is.
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