Dick Morris Travels to Ireland: Is it more than just a vacation?

Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 09:39 AM

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The brilliant Conservative strategist, Dick Morris and his Irish American wife Eileen, are visiting our Ireland for a vacation.

His Tweet before he left said:

"Off to Ireland with Eileen on vacation. Will tweet from that beautiful country now ruled by the right after the left screwed up its finances".

In Dick Morris style he has encapsulated the situation going on in Ireland with one sentence.

Since his trip started he has sent notes back extolling the beauty of the country, the food and wonderful people he has encountered.

But interspersed with the sightseeing notes, are deep political insights into the inner political goings on in America and what a precarious situation the world finds itself in, with the left in charge in Washington.

Dick Morris was Bill and Hillary Clintons confidante and main political strategist. Dick Morris with his strategic insights won the Whitehouse for Clinton and helped Clinton navigate through the political minefields of Washington DC. He honed the tactic of political triangulation.

But something happened to Morris while serving with the Clintons, disenchanted, he had an epiphany of sorts and resigned from their administration. He soon became a conservative fighting against Bill Clinton and later against Hillary with a zeal of almost religious convicition.

Dick Morris knows all of the intimate details of the Clintons and is wise in the ways of politics nationally and internationally. He is considered one of the most brilliant political strategists in the world and has traveled to democratic countries to work for political change...successfully.

Knowing how Mr. Morris is, raised my political antennae and made me ponder if there was more to his trip than just a sightseeing expedition. Did he have anything to do with last years stunning win by the "right" in Ireland? Is he laying the groundwork for another campaign?

Sometimes things aren't as simple as they appear.

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GeorgeDillon | Jun 17, 2011, 02:36 AM EDT

I wonder will Dick invite Sherry Rowlands along. For forgetful or younger readers, Sherry is the hooker pal of Dick who got him into the scandal that forced him to resign from Bill C's staff. Of course the fact that Bill Clinton would allow such a sleazy right-winger as Morris into a position of influence shows how much of a sleazy right-winger Clinton is too.

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EdinCali | Apr 24, 2011, 09:23 PM EDT

A guy from America is walking around Belfast, when all of a sudden he is pulled into a dark alley. A gun is held at his head, and he hears "Catholic or Protestant?" He knows that he'll manage to be wrong either way, so he answers, "Actually, I'm Jewish!" The gunman answers, Then I must be the luckiest Arab in Ireland!

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OurselvesAlone | Apr 24, 2011, 07:42 PM EDT

For the record, Dick and the Clintons parted company in 1998 when he let the cat out of the bag after Monica Gate when he said and I quote: "Can you really blame Bill, after all, Hillary is a lesbian" Ed, as for your "theory", let me quote William Shakespeare "Yond Cassius thinks too much, such men are dangerous". Don't over think, Ed, as Freud (or was it Clinton)who said: "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar".

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OurselvesAlone | Apr 24, 2011, 07:37 PM EDT

Yes Dick the Upper West side of Manhattan Jew would know a lot Ireland and its political parties. There is NO DIFFERENCE between the Futile failures (Fianna Fail) and the Fine girleens (Fine Gael) other than where they stood on a civil war that ended 88 years ago. Think maybe he is in Ireland because of his wife: EILEEN McGANN?

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Monsoonman | Apr 21, 2011, 11:56 AM EDT

This is hilarious! Obama and his fawners think all of the decorations & U.S. festooning of Ireland is for them, when in reality it is being done for Dick Morris...LOL!!!

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olovely | Apr 21, 2011, 09:14 AM EDT

Oh God, the brilliant political strategist, Dick Morris apparently doesn't know his a'-- from his elbow when it comes to politics then. Nor does the writer of this blog. Too busy playing with his spring spheres, I imagine. It's just embarrassing.

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Monsoonman | Apr 21, 2011, 12:45 AM EDT

Dick Morris knows what he's talking about. The present government is definitely right of the previous fiana fail. Maybe Morris is going to bring the Tea Party in and help the transformation process speed up.

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maloney | Apr 21, 2011, 12:36 AM EDT

pmunited..obviously you know nothing about American politics!!

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wgman062 | Apr 21, 2011, 12:30 AM EDT

The right has taken over in Ireland? The "brilliant" Morris doesn't know his a** from his elbow. Every party in Ireland would be branded socialists by the rightwing if they were in this country. The right took over? LOL!!

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pmunited | Apr 20, 2011, 04:31 PM EDT

Clearly Dick Morris knows nothing about Irish politics. Fianna Fail are certainly not a party of the left and neither is Fine Gael. There is very little ideological difference between the two parties. Labour is left, but very mild. The idea that the left is in charge in Washington is also rather wide of the mark. The Democrats are primarily a party of the center-left with the center being dominant.

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