Posted on 02/19/2005 4:43:15 AM PST by pookie18
Vice President Dick Cheney likely will step down next year due to health reasons and be replaced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, according to a report by geopolitical expert Jack Wheeler.
On his website, To the Point, Wheeler reports there's a "red-breasted rumor bird" flying around Capitol Hill that has whispered the same thing to most congressional committee chairmen.
"We all know that Dick Cheney has been the best vice president of modern times, perhaps in American history," one such chairman told Wheeler. "And we know that he absolutely will not run for president in 2008. Further, he has an unfortunate history of heart trouble. So let's just say none of us will be surprised if, sometime next year, he will step down from the vice presidency due to his health."
Continued the source: "Should this happen, President Bush would need to appoint his replacement, just as Richard Nixon chose Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew. It is quite clear to us whom the president would choose should he need to: Condoleezza Rice."
Wheeler goes on to analyze what such a scenario would mean for the 2008 presidential election.
Writes Wheeler: "Being a sitting vice president places Condi in an impregnable position for the GOP nomination in 2008 and sucks every breath of wind from Hillary's sails. Historically, it's hard for a party to keep the White House after they've had it for eight years. This is George Bush and Dick Cheney's way to buck history and make it."
Serving as Bush's national security adviser during his first term, Rice took over the State Department last month.
There are one-issue voters whose issue will always stop them, whether it's guns, immigration, pro-life, national defense, taxes, or whatever. Those tend to filter down to a pretty small % when all is said and done. I know LOTS of pro-life people who nevertheless would vote for Condi.
Then again, all of us can be replaced.
I am not surprised.
Get ready to get flamed on that one!!
Wow, there is a God!
This would be great news, however, the loss of Cheney would be great. He really is the Greatest Vice this Nation has ever had! (No pun intended you lurking dims)
That's only because she takes a stance but does not elaborate a position. "...And we must do something about illegal immigration." Just what that something is she leaves for people to hear what they want to hear.
Without Ronald Reagan's leadership, the USSR would still be a living breathing threat. For all that the British Commonwealth is capable of, there is no way Britain or Mrs. Thatcher could have broken the soviet economy or won the cold war.
It took a strong willed Conservative alpha male.
Currently, with Communist China emerging as an economic super power and islam remaining a worldwide terrorist threat, Americans can't afford to go wobbly now.
Would you vote for an alpha male liberal (if one exists) over a conservative woman?
What possible good would come from Cheney resigning and Condi becoming VP..Who besides Bush sr has won the Presidency while holding the office of VP lately?
after what we've had in some presidents and vp's a woman couldn't be worse.
Back when the sun never set on the British Empire, this was the case because alpha males made it so.
This is a magnificent example which Americans should heed.
So he was never mayor of Boston, although it was the police strike in Boston in 1919 that brought him to national attention and led to his becoming the VP nominee in 1920.
Well, you know one less now. Why are we conservatives always asked to compromise or wait till this or that and continually watering down social conservatism.
We are being moderating by our success. I'm sure Condi is a wonderful person. I do not know her but for me a pro-abort on the ticket is abysmal. And yes....you can add gun grabber to that also as a deal killer though I am unaware of her gun views. Meanwhile, luckily we run against Democrats who scare slightly more people worse. Without this war, we would have lost two months ago....in my view. But folks did mention values "disconnect" with the left, but FR doesn't seem to focus much on that snippet. Anyhow..good luck. I'm still looking.
There are one-issue voters whose issue will always stop them,
I agree with you, and "we" are all Republicans or at least conservatives debating on FreeRepublic. There must be one stronger ideology that holds us together. Gee, I wonder what that is? Possibly something to do with responsibility no matter what our "issues" are! We are watching how Condi negotiates with misogynist leaders on the world stage. Let's see how she does.
Certainly. When faced with a superior enemy bent on aggression, it pays to have the worlds greatest super power in your corner.
I contend that we will be unable to that position without a Conservative alpha male at the helm.
You're argument is losing ground quickly.
You haven't even laid a glove yet.
: )
**I agree with the visibility and prestige (and even power), but how many Secretaries of State have ascended directly to the presidency?**
How many have wished to? Which leads to we can speculate all we may like and the writer can make as many statements as he wants about Sec Rice becoming VP but does she want to or indeed want to be President in the future.
Absolute nonsense. Can you imagine the left painting Condi as a closet Nun?
Or others wondering who is going to be invited to the Oval Office for lunch and munch?
Anyone can speculate. This is proof of point.
I'll have to pick up that book. I know I didn't write in PHUSA that he was mayor (I don't think I did), but I always thought he was mayor.
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