And that's not all.  Morris waves a red flag of warning to the Grand Old Party, sending out the alarm that the Christian right is about to become for the Republicans what Jesse Jackson's rainbow coalition was to the Democrats--the "kiss of death." 

"Not that the religious right is wrong," Morris advises.  As a matter of fact, right and wrong have nothing to do with his analysis.  The Christian conservatives get "in the way of so much good that the Republican Party could achieve if it were not in the Christian right's grasp." 

Similar advice had been directed to Republicans for years.  Even during the Reagan Revolution, party strategists warned that an alliance with Christian conservatives would mean eventual disaster for the party.  Of course, the fact remains that the base of Christian conservatives has been the foundation for every major Republican victory from 1980 to the present.  Candidates like Arnold Schwarzenegger have generally been elected under unusual circumstances, such as the quirk of this year's recall election. 

Why should anyone listen to Dick Morris anyway?  His advice has certainly not been infallible.  Though gifted with periodic political genius, Morris's advice is very much a hit or miss affair.  When he is right, he is generally very right, and when he is wrong, he is disastrously wrong.  In the wake of the 1994 Democratic defeat, Morris was called upon by President Bill Clinton, and he became one of the closest presidential advisors in modern history--and one of the most hated. 

With Bill Clinton, Morris developed his infamous political strategy of "triangulation." Morris described triangulation as a model that "involves using the solutions of both parties to solve each new problem."  It goes without saying that triangulation is a political strategy that "true believers" on either side of the political spectrum find morally repugnant.  Convictions of politicians see the very notion of triangulation as reprehensible.  Not so for those in the middle, who are looking for just enough political traction to win an election, without being saddled with a political or moral ideology that would get in the way of compromise.