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."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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...
I mean just start a simple list and update it weekly on the websites so people can go to and copy and really promote a movement to voice their opinions in any form they want against these republican RINOS. It would really start checkmating these pricks!
>>>> As a conservative, I call myself an independent. <<<<<<
We have to. The GOP doesn’t like conservatives.
Republicans employed by Obama. Yeah, that’s a real honest opinion.
Any Republican willing to be associated with this administration is just a low life with an R beside his name.
Yep, who says what in the comming days will be a great identifier for us
We can call it the Great Cheyney RINO Party Enema, one speech, listen, then flush
Cheney should lead the Republicans out of the GOP to a new party—a Conservative Party. Let the RINOs rule what is left of the GOP and see what happens. That or Conservatives need to seize control of the GOP—Next time Run Dick or Liz Cheney for President. Not popular you say? say this after Terrorists blow up some Americans and Obama does nothing. Wait until we have a terrorist attack each week for a few months.
I think it will be worst than 911.....
Cheney has every right to defend himself. Obama saying that Gitmo is a recruit tool for terrorists is like saying supermax is a recruit tool for murderers. Obama is an asshat.
Republicans may turn on Cheney, conservatives won’t. It beats me how two people can be classified as all republicans. Funny how the MSM can do that, isn’t it?
Tom Ridge is not a “voice from the right”
The ultimate goal of the Democrats is to split the Republican party. I say the Conservatives owned the Republcan party and need to rid it of RINOS. Once the Democrats start planting the idea of, “The Conservatives should leave the Republican party”, then the Democrats have succeeded on having an edge up on the Republican party by splitting it!
This is like a hippie calling a soldier a coward. It is an insult given by someone who isn’t willing or able to do the job himself.
“RINOS BLASTING TRUE CONSERVATIVE FOR ACTING WHEN THEY WON’T”
Exactly. And Bush isn’t helping.
“Bush made his first public speech since leaving office in Canada back in March. Bush said he hoped President Barack Obama’s administration would be successful.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2256287/posts
There was a guy named Ridge in the Bush administration? Sorry, doesn’t ring a bell. Bush had a bunch of hold-overs from Clinton. Are you sure this guy wasn’t one them? He sure sounds like he was.
Anyhow, I sure don’t recall the twit being a Republican.
No real Republican (oops ... I mean, conservative), would disagree with Vice President Cheney. Just RINOs like Gates and Ridge.
Ridge, Christie, McCain, Graham, Crist, Powell, Gates.... all $2 whores.
Cheney...a real man, a leader, a patriot.
I’ll side with Cheney any day of the week.
Poor Tommy losing the base to Dick Cheney.
Oh wait Tom Ridge never had it. He is a RINO.
These clowns can’t even defend someone they worked with in trying to protect this country. The Republicans have become the cowardice party. I hope they excuse me for no longer supporting them.
...yeah, 2010 sure looks like a promising election year. :(:(:(:(
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It's strange that the party has given up on Reagan/traditional stances on issues from when polls show a small majority of Americans have those same views.
Nope he wasn’t I just asked my husband. Ridge replaced that squiggly little guy Chernoff under Bush. I didn’t like him either. Both came off to me like little liberals, no spines, do not trust, in other words a Democrat. Just like Hank Paulson under Bush who I never liked either who came across as a liberal and what do you know He was a big Fat Democrat!
One thing the Democrats has learned to do is pose as Republicans to get the jobs so they can muddy the waters to split the party. Now that the conservative people are on to their tricks we need list and need to start talking to each other in neighborhoods and etc. to point out who is conservative and who is not!
The democrats greatest fear ----> Conservatives
. Once the Conservatives are gone, the nation easily becomes socialist road kill.
Who is Christie? I agree with you on all the other names.
“America was less safe from terrorism after Mr Obama’s decision to abandon violent interrogation methods and close Guantanamo.”
‘violent interrogation methods’
+++++++++++++
Applied sparingly (judiciously) and under a doctor’s supervision and to great result. Those 3 people that this was applied to are all fine just after this happens. HOW IS THIS VIOLENT?
The good thing about these spineless RINOs speaking out is that we now know, in no uncertain terms, who they are. They are the ones that are ruining the party.
Quisling! Someone who is in the group and gives aid and comfort to the enemy. That name is as popular as the name Hitler is in Norway!
I cast my vote for Mitt Romney in the 2008 Florida primary. I ended up voting for McCain in the general. I was wishing to see Cheney and Gingrich on the ticket. Oh, well.
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