Posted on 05/23/2009 11:27:00 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
n his audacious attack on a sitting president last week, Mr Cheney declared that America was less safe from terrorism after Mr Obama's decision to abandon violent interrogation methods and close Guantanamo.
But once the cheering had died down on talk radio and cable television, discordant voices emerged from the Right to challenge Mr Cheney's defence of the Bush-era legacy.
"Yeah, I disagree with Dick Cheney," said Tom Ridge, who was appointed by the Bush-Cheney administration to set up and run the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks on America.
Mr Ridge spoke out after back-to-back "dueling" speeches on national security by Mr Obama and Mr Cheney on Thursday. He took issue with much of what Mr Obama had to say, but particularly disliked Mr Cheney's response.
"It's just the whole notion of a Republican vice president giving a speech after the incumbent Democratic president," Mr Ridge told CNN. "It's gotta go beyond the politics of either party."
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We now know who the pansies in the Bush Admin were. Damn! We find out after the fact.
ML/NJ
pretty soon lugar will chime in, where were all the rats speaking out against gore,carter clinton with there President Bush bashing, at least that turncoat spector is not able to give the rino traitors cover
Give em hell VP Chaney
Tom Ridge should go f*** himself.
The Republicans should be lining up behind Cheney’s very true words!
Dang — just follow Spectre so we can clearly see our enemies, you freaking RINOs!
Go VP Cheney
Smoke out those RINO’s whose white liberal guilt and elite detachment from American traditional values overrides their good sense
As anyone who bothered to check knows, Cheney was scheduled to speak weeks before Mr. Out of Money.
No. Just the politics of the spineless Republican Party.
You’re right. He was. Zero scrambled at the last minute.
As a conservative, I call myself an independent.
That doesn't even make any sense. Obama moved his speech up to go before Cheney. What a moron this Ridge is.
Oh, and for the rinos/democRATs/liberals/socialists out there, when we get hit again, 0bama and his administration will own it. Lock, stock and barrel.
5.56mm
Yes. After all, the Oboma administration has been so nice, so favorable, and so polite to the Bush administration. (/s)
Get outta here, Ridge. Your 15 minutes of fame are up.
Unbelievable!
The most deserving of respect Vice President Cheney says it exactly like it is and is part of the same sentence as a "village idiot".
From a foreign news source no less.
Ridge and McQueeg?
RINO Ridge was coy just a few weeks ago about whether he’d vote for Democrat Arlene in the next PA election.
We must rid the GOP of these people.
No RINO such as Ridge, Christie, McCain, Graham, Crist or Powell will ever get an ounce of my support. I don’t vote for neo-statists.
Ridge is an idiot...
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