Are you kidding me? The main rap on Cheney is that he has a marginal circulatory system.
A Cheney candidacy will give the 'rats the vapors.
If true, Kerry who has neither would have collected only about the 30% or so of the Kool-Aid drinking popular vote, not 48%.
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.
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"
Cheney-Rice ticket in 2008?
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.
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
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.
I have it on a good souce (DUmmieland) that Chenney is resigning next month and Condi is taking over.
... 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.
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
Followership is a strange word and I would go into all of the aspects of what good followership is, but I don't need to. Dick Cheney is the example of great followership. And, no, followership doesn't have anything to do with being a "yes man".
The idea of followership really goes right back to Ronald Reagan, who said:
"There’s nothing you can’t achieve as long as you don’t care who gets credit."
Dick Cheney is a living example of that axiom.
Not going to happen, IMO...Fred's off the beam on this.
Cheney has the charisma (not as much as W), definitely the intelligence. It would be an honor to have him run and win, but I wonder about his health. I guess if you keep busy like W, he would be in top shape healthwise. Give that heart some exercise!
Seems Fred won't take "no" for an answer. Maybe if Vice President Cheney gives the Leahy treatment to anyone who asks, that'll be strident enough.
If we're putting Cheney up in 2008, then we're desperate. He can't win with his health problems.
Note that Hillary has to get reelcted to the Senate in 2006. The Republicans need to counter with a "gravitas" candidate whom she can't ignore. Then we need a bloody knock-down, drag-out barroom brawl kind of campaign. Sure, her Thighness will win but she may too damaged to be a viable presidential candidate. Please, please let that happen.
Owl Eagle said it best in this thread. Let Dick Cheney go fish those streams and spend time with his family. He's served America with integrity, distinction, honor and class.
If the GOP wants to nominate a winner, they need look no further than the combination of General Tommy Franks and Senator John Cornyn of Texas. The only problem would be deciding who should be President, and who should be VP.
Both men are more than qualified and instill confidence.
That ticket would finish the job of totally destroying the Democratic Party, Senator Fat Ankles notwithstanding.