Posted on 03/28/2005 10:49:36 PM PST by RWR8189
In the summer of 2000, Dick Cheney was appointed to find a vice presidential candidate for George W. Bush, and, as we now know, the winner of the search turned out to be Dick Cheney.
Today, Republicans are casting about for a successor to Bush. And the winner of that search just may turn out to be ... Dick Cheney.
The Draft Cheney movement is burbling just below the surface. Fred Barnes suggested it earlier this month in the Weekly Standard. Tod Lindberg of the Washington Times and Lawrence Kudlow of National Review Online echoed Barnes in columns this week.
Cheneymania has reached critical mass.
The obvious objection is that Cheney has denied any interest in running. Cheney's value, as both he and Bush have stated repeatedly, lies in his total devotion to this administration and lack of ulterior political motives. But the Cheney-ites have come up with a response: Cheney, they argue, is the ideal candidate to safeguard Bush's legacy in 2009 and beyond.
The point remains delicate enough that the Draft Cheney movement must speak in coded terms, like members of the Comintern using Pravda to signal subtle shifts in the party line. I'm not a member of the conservative movement, but I do make a hobby of monitoring these communiques
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Didnt we learn the last time when we decided to give the nomination to Dole out of respect? Is the GOP so WIMPY that they not only wont fight in congress, but they WONT FIGHT for the nomination process either?
Think back...way back...to November 2004. Kerry lost by a slim margin, but easily half of his votes were "hate Bush" votes, not Kerry votes. To motivate their base enough to win in 2008, the democrats need someone they hate more than Bush. The answer: Cheney!
It's kind of like the Republican's hoping that Hillary will run. Not only do we get the pro-Republican votes...we'll get an awful lot of anti-Hillary-anti-Bill votes.
I'd vote for him in (pardon the expression) a heartbeat. He would be the most likely to further the Bush agenda.
Forget it! His health won't allow it. Focus your efforts on Newt.
Chenney is a walking heart attack.
Beside, it's time to look for new younger talent.
Surely, the Republicans have some............don't they?
Newt's past won't allow it the MSM would rip him apart on moral issues and be far more an impediment than Cheney's health. Cheney will not run he has constantly said he will not and IMHO he will not not just because of his health which IMHO is stable anyway as long as he does the things he is supposed to do after all he leads an active life both politically and socially including fishing and hunting. Nor is it really not wanting the job it is the process of obtaining it which turns Cheney off and is not prepared to go through that process and is honest enough to admit it unlike a lot of politicians.
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