posted July 19, 2022 11:29 PM            

Let's be objective and note that Dick 'Toe Sucker' Morris isn't exactly a paragon of prognostication when it comes to political reality.

Dick Morris Takes Aim at Hillary Clinton From a Tabloid Perch

The National Enquirer recently hired Dick Morris as its chief political commentator and correspondent.
The National Enquirer recently hired Dick Morris as its chief political commentator and correspondent.Credit...Michael Kirby Smith for The New York Times
The National Enquirer recently hired Dick Morris as its chief political commentator and correspondent.
Alessandra Stanley
July 9, 2016

There are so many ways a supermarket tabloid could trumpet this.

“HILLARY’S NIGHTMARE! FORMER SVENGALI TO REVEAL HER DARKEST SECRETS!”

“FLY ON CLINTONS’ WALL BECOMES FLY IN CLINTONS’ OINTMENT!”

“TOE-SUCKING CONSULTANT TURNS THUMB-SUCKING PUNDIT!”

Any of those headlines would befit The National Enquirer’s hiring of Dick Morris, a tabloid-worthy twist if ever there was one.

For one thing, Mr. Morris, a political strategist and commentator, was for the Clintons before he was against them. The man who began working for Bill Clinton in 1978, during his first run for governor of Arkansas, ended up eclipsing his boss’s sex scandals with one of his own.

On the last day of the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mr. Morris resigned as chief campaign strategist for President Clinton’s re-election bid because The Star, the sister publication of The National Enquirer, revealed Mr. Morris’s affair with a prostitute who claimed he had a penchant for sucking her toes. The National Enquirer followed that bombshell with news of another mistress and a love child in Texas.