Dick Morris: “Donna Rice” nominated to head State Department

Dick Morris -- the onetime adviser to President Bill Clinton turned critic, author, and FOX News Channel political analyst -- referred to Margaret Spellings, President George W. Bush's nominee to replace Rod Paige as secretary of education, and Condoleezza Rice, nominated to succeed Colin L. Powell as secretary of state, as “Margaret Speller” and "Donna Rice," respectively.

From the November 18 edition of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor:

MORRIS: [W]hen you take someone from the White House staff, like Margaret Speller, and you put her in as education secretary, or Donna Rice, and you put her into State, or [White House legal counsel and U.S. attorney general nominee Alberto R.] Gonzales and you put him into Justice, you're imposing your imprint on the second-term agenda rather than basically spinning loose the departments and saying, OK, you guys are independent countries for the next four years.

It's a brilliant move.

Donna Rice is a former model who was romantically linked to former Colorado senator and Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. Hart withdrew from the 1988 presidential race amid rumors that he had engaged in extra-marital affairs, fueled in part by a widely-publicized photo of Rice sitting on his lap aboard a yacht named Monkey Business.