Posted on 10/05/2004 8:05:27 AM PDT by Without Barbarians
Democrats should be ready to have their comfortable delusions about the Bush administration shattered the moment Dick Cheney opens his mouth tonight. Let me tell you a little something about your Vice President. You could put an ice cube in his mouth at the start of the debate and pull it out completely intact at the end. He keeps his cool under pressure. He’s not going to be rattled by a walking parody of a third rate character in a second rate legal potboiler.
Expect this debate to be about all the nonsense you’ve heard during the campaign, and about Cheney dissecting and dismantling it. The Kerry campaign has come to rely on spooky tales of Halliburton and corporate greed on the one hand and fervent religiosity on the other to the point where not only do Democrats believe the hype, they depend on it for most of their arguments. Too bad none of it is actually true.
Democrats have said that because Cheney used to run Halliburton, he’s given them favorable treatment in the form of no bid contracts in Iraq. We’ve all heard the line, usually with 60’s protest music as accompaniement. What the Democratic echo chamber has conveniently forgotten is that in the late 1990’s, Al Gore commended Halliburton as a model for reforming defense department procurement. They’ve also forgotten that the Clinton administration awarded a $2.2 billion no-bid contract to Halliburton during the war in Kosovo, while Dick Cheney was its CEO, and no one said a word. Through distortion and lies, democrats have morphed Halliburton into a ghost story parents tell their kids at night when they want them to grow up to be liberal environmentalists.
Frankly, if a Republican ex-Secretary of Defense CEO of an oil services company can get a commendation and a no-bid contract from a liberal Democratic administration whose Vice President wrote a book about environmentalism, that CEO deserves whatever stock options and retirement plan he can get....
The rest is here but you get the idea.
Great post !
I have been thinking that Cheney will be the hit man. All those silly internet rumors that Kerry kept alive will be crushed tonight.
I hope that is how it will happen!
Cheney did so well against Joe Lieberman because Joe didn't believe all the garbage he was spewing. What do you think about John Edwards?
My concern is a replay of the first debate, and that the moderator won't ask any questions for Cheney to swing away on. Leherer didn't ask Kerry anything about his record, made it very hard for Bush to bring it up. I hope that the moderator for tonight will at least ask one or two questions about Kerry/Edwards
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