Norquist: [Vice President] Cheney winning the interrogation debate

The Hill's Congress Blog ^ | May 22, 2009

[2ndDivisionVet]

To follow up on yesterday’s dueling speeches on national security, we asked Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, who he thought was winning the public debate–President Obama or Dick Cheney?

Cheney is winning.

The old question was whether torture and secret prisons and Abu Ghraib photo fests were a good idea. Cheney’s team was losing that argument, big time. The new question is having put a bunch of guys in an overseas prison and poked and irritated them for six years, should we release them into your congressional district. These now somewhat grumpy detainees Obama promises will be kept away from your children by the same government workers who runs the post office, the TSA, border security and the DMV. Trust him.

Obama is losing that one, big time.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Exactly! It's the NIMBY argument.

[americanophile]

Cheney won it.

[bobby.223]

good old grover (founder of the ‘islamic institute’ and one of the muslim terrorist front group C.A.I.R.’s mainstays), norquist. have not heard much from him lately.

[Maelstorm]

Yes he did win and you can tell by the reaction from the hard left.

[PerConPat]

Cheney was brief, specific, unemotional, accurate, and thoroughly in command of the facts.

Obama was preaching to his choir on very ambiguous and general terms like "principles" and going "off course." This is the sort of rhetoric that works when the audience is not feeling the heat of a terrorist attack- how soon they forget.

Norquist is correct in declaring Cheney the winner, but only in the context of the real world. The majority of America does not live in the real world. In that context, Cheney- for the most part- merely cast pearl before swine.

[New Perspective]

Here is a condensed version of VP Cheney's speech done in a different way.

VP Cheney tough as nails.