Love him or hate him one very important thing can be said about Rush Limbaugh.
He is one of if not the most accurate pundits in America today. He often loves to play up his accuracy ratings on his show. But it all underlies a major point - better than 9 times out of 10 - he's right!
Someone else I began observing/listening to during the Clinton impeachment era was Dick Morris. Having more supreme access to the Clintons than almost anyone at important moments of their political life his work in documenting the true Clinton record has made him the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers.
But when it comes to punditry make no mistake Morris is pretty hit or miss. When Limbaugh gets observations/predictions wrong - the arrow has normally landed on the black line on the outer edge of the bullseye. Morris many times flies right into the I-beam of the barn door behind the target.
I think part of it is selfish on Morris' part - and heck why not. If Billary comes back to the White House, Morris will be the most in demand political analyst for the duration of their public life. If not - he'll still do well (after all Senator Screech will still be sucking up oxygen on C-Span) but it won't be nearly the same.
Morris got it dreadfully wrong yesterday. Here at TownHall he wrote: "BLACKS MAY DOOM OBAMA"
His theory is that Obama will have to carry overwhelming percentages in the Dem primary for him to have a chance. Maybe he hasn't noticed the fact that Obama is averaging 15,000-17,000 per campaign appearance in recent weeks. Maybe he hasn't noticed that Hillary is drawing a paltry 3,000-5,000 per stop.
Maybe that's why Hillary is busy offering her house slaves $10,000 a month to be her songbirds.
Maybe Dick didn't see this: "BLACK VOTERS SHIFT TO OBAMA"
And maybe he didn't read up on what I wrote late last year about Obama's complete ease around voters of every ethnic stripe.
I agree with Morris that Obama will have to compete for every vote - Black, White, Hispanic and otherwise. But so will Hillary. When Obama ran for U.S. Senate it was the most surreal thing - news cameras would catch him campaigning in downstate Illinois sitting on stacks of feed bags in grain stores with farmers, dressed in flannel. For most politicians it would seem presumptive, fake, and manipulative. And while it could have totally been those things and more - the point was the mostly white, rural, and many times racist farmers of downstate totally bought it.
And Hillary just can't pull that off.