President Cheney?

The Weekly Standard ^ | 03/07/05 | Fred Barnes

[Huck]

The main rap I've heard on Cheney is that he lacks the charisma to get elected.

Are you kidding me? The main rap on Cheney is that he has a marginal circulatory system.

[Semper Paratus]

A Cheney candidacy will give the 'rats the vapors.

[Vigilanteman]

They know that gravitas trumps charisma in choosing a president in a foreign policy era.

If true, Kerry who has neither would have collected only about the 30% or so of the Kool-Aid drinking popular vote, not 48%.

[schu]

I love Cheney (him and Rummy are our current times Marshall and Truman IMHO), but I do not believe he has the vigor and the physical stamina to run for President. He has served us with distinction, Fred, let him go fly fishing.

[End Times Sentinel]

Dick Cheney has spent nearly 40 years in public service.  Aside from the time he put in at Halliburton, where he made something approaching his worth, he's lived on a relative pittance.  How much do we want this man to sacrifice?

 

Go out and fish those streams Dick, spend some quality time with Lynn, play with the kids and grand kids.  You've had a fine run and we could ask no more from you.

Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton

(Yes, she really said that

Peggy Noonan

The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

 

[Reagan is King]

Cheney-Rice ticket in 2008?

[silent_jonny]

Agreed.

[martin_fierro]

Yeah, as much as I admire Cheney, I don't see him running for '08.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

I was hoping for Jasmin-Rice or perhaps Longgrain-Rice or maybe even Rice-Pilaf.

[Bobber58]

I think it would take a threat of monumental significance
for Cheney to be the nominee.

If something goes seriously wrong somewhere in the world
and we're drawn into a bitter conflict,
I could see Cheney as the only real choice...
not for political reasons, but for national survival ones.

[Echo Talon]

I don't know if I could stand another election where Halliburton is mentioned 24/7. Cheney would make a good president, I would love to see the liberals scream! :D

[MindBender26]

Fred Barnes is usually WAY too smart to have written this.

Cheney is not a well man.
Cheney will be 68 in 2008.
Cheney is very rich and does not need the money.
Cheney has absolutely NO interest in remaining in DC.
Cheney helped develop the foreign policy, but others were visable in publicly implementing it.
More than anything else, Dick Cheney is tired. Lynn Cheney is tired..... and they are smart enough to get out of DC while they can.

>What about John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Bill Frist, and other Republicans who are thinking about running?

McCain is our Howard Dean. Frist is a non-starter. Rudy, Romney and Rice are the front runners now against the Dems obvious selection of Hillary with Hispanic Bill Richardson as VP. (Yes, I know, Republicans hate her, but the radical wing of the Dems now in control love her.)

[ken21]

fat white men are in low demand for any political office today due to the hollywoodization of politics.

governor wilson of california appointed a fat white man as u.s. senator and he lost the next election to a photogenic female democrat.

[Always Right]

I have it on a good souce (DUmmieland) that Chenney is resigning next month and Condi is taking over.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

... What about John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Bill Frist, and other Republicans who are thinking about running?...

Twenty per centers at best. The Hellbeast will devour them.

Cheney, on the other hand , is a real man. He could bring me back to the republican party.

If he chooses not to run, the GOP had better find a strong young horse, perhaps Mike Pence. I'm beginning to hear more of him and have heard nothing yet I couldn't support.

[angkor]

Cheney/Rice is the ace in the hole should things get dicier in the next three years.

Other than that it looks like some combination of Rice, Allen, or Romney.

And to continue the betting thought, www.tradesports.com has Cheney at 2.0 as the Rep. nominee, which is 20 cents a contract on a scale of $0.00 to $10.00.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Only two sitting presidents have seen their running-mate vice presidents elected to succeed them - Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan. Reckon the election of your sitting VP as a third term for the sitting president, and you can rank those two with FDR who personally won a third term.

So it's somewhat ironic that a sitting VP is generally a shoo-in for his party's presidental nomination - it's not that good a credential for winning election, necessarily.

Every administration puts out pious platitudes about how much its VP does - and everyone understands that that is nonsense; presidents don't even like the idea of VP any more than people like to write their own wills. But with Cheney, no one doubts that it is true.

Our republican tradition is that a person's ability and energy, and not his family, determines what office he will or will not attain. If we were true to that code, we Republicans would nominate a person who

• is a popular, twice-elected governor
• would be a suitable choice for the Supreme Court.

The only trouble is that the person who best fits that picture frame is not only the son of one president but the brother of another.

[ASA Vet]

Their timing is off. Half way though term two is more likely.

[blastdad51]

Cheney/Rice in 2008 sure has a sweet sound to it, but alas I doubt if it is to be.