Last Friday (11/11/11), while eating breakfast in a Detroit airport restaurant, well-known political commentator Dick Morris and Mitt Romney had a chance meeting. Morris describes what happened…
I spent 40 minutes having breakfast with Mitt Romney last week. Ran into him by coincidence. Here’s what he’s really like:
“I had a really nice chat with Mitt. …
He was very loose. … You’d just love to spend a weekend with him. …
I really enjoyed it. …
I just had the sense of a guy who was really in control, really in command, who would, frankly, make one heck of a president.
So, I’ve gotta tell ya, that I was really impressed with him.
Very.”
~ Dick Morris
► Jayde Wyatt
Jayde a breakfast of champions at least as far as Mitt is concerned!
I always notice Mitt is a lot looser when giving his “community” speeches than at the “big” speeches or at the debates. Wish he could get that more looser stance across more often. But I guess you always have to be on the defense at the debates.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/poll-majority-now-support-the-individual-mandate.php?ref=fpb
I am just loving it that Morris has warmed up to Romney. “He’d make one heck of a president”..I just love hearing him say that. For quite a while Morris was critical of Romney and used the MA Health Care Plan as a convenient excuse to dismiss his candidacy. But that all changed months ago. I wonder what caused it? I love that he is on board.
I always hear that Romney is supposedly stiff, doesn’t connect and not passionate. To hear him described that way leaves me a little perplexed because personally I think Romney is very charismatic.
Morris is scum. As Romney supporters, I don’t think we need to be advertising his comments like this.
Earlier this year:
Morris has previously been very critical of Romney, explaining to Sean Hannity on February 28: “I do not like Romney. It’s the only one that I really attack … I want to be sure that the new president will repeal Obamacare. And since he enacted the equivalent of Obamacare in Massachusetts, they call it Romneycare, and I talk about how disastrous it’s been, I can’t trust him on that.”
On March 2, Morris told Bill O’Reilly that Romney couldn’t win the nomination because of “Romneycare”: “In terms of Romney, it’s not an Achilles heel, it’s an Achilles body. There is no way this guy is going to get nominated with him having passed the equivalent of Obamacare.”
And in October 2010, Morris said at a tea party gathering that he was “opposed to Mitt Romney” after “I got educated on health care, and I saw how horrible that bill that he signed is working in Massachusetts, [inaudible] is doubled, and now it’s like a four month wait to see an internist in Boston. It used to be six days.”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201106130018
Yeah…I remember Morris talking about Romneycare negatively on Hannity. I saw it as a convenient excuse because he never criticized the MA Health Care Plan in 2008. He had other reasons to dislike Romney at that time. But all of sudden, out of blue, he came on Hannity and starting praising Romney about how well he was doing in his race with no mention of Romneycare. It was a surprise. I have no idea what turned him around.
While not impossible, Morris would need to have a hidden genius beyond what you usually see from the man, to have plotted his conversion to Mitt so meticulously over the months that it’s nearly a polynomial equation on a graph. I consider him as in the same class as Tim Pawlenty, and a great many other Republicans currently daunted by purges from the high-jacked Tea Party: he opposed Mitt when it seemed necessary and warranted to do so, but privately, he always left the door open to the thought that Mitt would be right in the end.
Steve congrats for intergrating “polynomial” into your post. You are my hero!
@Annette, What happened to Dick Morris?! Well, I might have had something to do with Mr. Morris converting to Mitt, and I feel good inside because of it. A couple of months ago I sent a very meaningful letter on facebook to him. I basically told him that if he wanted to be on the right side of Mitts historical run for the White House, he should give him a chance! I told Dick that Mitt Romney’s Religeon has modern day scripture stating the God himself wrote the Constitution throught the hands of our early leaders of America and that Mitt would do everything in his power to defend the Constitution because its been in his blood and Doctrine all of his life. Mitt is a true Patriot that loves this Great Country! I’m not for sure it was me, but after that letter I noticed a change of heart in him.. God Bless America!
It’s not for me to say how MRC runs their Mitt Romney fan site, but my goodness, touting the endorsement of Dick Morris is just about the dumbest post I’ve seen on this site—a surprisingly remarkable feat considering Rebel Ross posts his “work” here. Do you know who Dick Morris is? Dick Morris was fired by the President of the United States for letting prostitutes (that he hired for his own personal entertainment) listen to confidential conversations Morris was having with the POTUS over the phone. I’m glad Dick Morris thinks Romney would “make one heck of a president.” I’m sure he also gave a lot of great compliments to the prostitutes he hired.
Show some class, MRC.
Here’s Johnnnnny!!!!!
Wow, what a turn around. Just months ago Dick was blatantly anti Mitt. Just shows what meeting the guy in person can do for even the most antagonistic critics.
I’m still mad @ Morris from 2007-08. He was the first on FOX to start the narrative “Romney is a flip-flopper and can’t win.” Morris is snake. You never know what you’re going to get from him. Funny he calls other people flip-floppers. Good grief!
On the other hand it can’t hurt Romney to have people hear good things from Morris. Maybe Dick can redeem himself.
I heard Morris on the Sean Hannity program on the way home from work last night and he wasn’t talking up Romney, he was talking up Gingrich. If the base continues to be intransigent, Obama’s going to win this one.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/11/15/the_gops_message_problem_112065.html
I saw the Dick Morris piece too and then was interested in seeing what he would say on Fox news. He’s a Fox News Contributor isn’t he? Fox news is not fair and balanced on this. Have been really disappointed in Fox News (I’ve actually started watching CNN). It is interesting and sad how they use the polls too. I read something about Laura Ingraham’s comments on Romney, the Massachusetts illegals and health care and then went to a site on the law in Massachusetts and saw the things that Romney vetoed. I wish she would explain this.
Rush, Levin, Laura et al sang Mitt’s praises last time. This time they can’t say enough bad about him. My theory? Conservative talk’s listeners have been reduced to the Teavangelicals and these hosts are pandering to them by dissing Romney. FOX did it again this a.m. with Martha McCollum, who went on about how the “best Republicans are not the race.” That is Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Condaleeza Rice.
She was implying that because Bush, Rice and and Christie were not running, we were stuck with big losers like Mitt and Newt.