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Is Dick Morris Working for the DNC?

I just read Dick Morris' column in The Hill today where he gives the GOP the following advice:

The only way for a Republican to survive in 2006 is to run like a Democrat.......

Lately some have suggested that candidates use local issues to survive. But the wisdom of Tip O'Neill will not save a party that has convinced the nation that Gingrich was right -- that congressional races are national, not local. It is only by moving to the center and the left that the congressional Republican Party can respond to the massive voter anger its candidates encounter at every turn.

Unless the harness of party discipline loosens, GOP congressmen and senators will go, in step, over the cliff.

There may be individual Republican congressmen where this might be good advice (Chris Shays and maybe a few others, primarily in the Northeast), but on the whole, if Republicans follow Dick Morris' advice in this column they will guarantee themselves a disaster this November.