Cheney 'Appalled' by Durbin's Nazi Outburst

NewsMax ^ | 6/18/05 | Limbacher

[JustaCowgirl]

Good for you, Mr. VP. But it's not strong enough. And it's only a start.

[rickmichaels]

Is this Gitmo, Senator Dirtbin?

[SerpentDove]

What I like about this is how the administration is apparently handling it.

Remember when Herman Munster, aka John Fn Kerry, made his "Cheney's daughter is a lesbian" comment? Every other day, someone (Lynn Cheney, Dick Cheney, Laura Bush) would make a comment on it, and keep it in the headlines. And America was appalled.

That's what I think they're doing here, underscoring the foul remarks, and I'm glad for it. It will be effective.

[DoughtyOne]

It's kind of hard to envision Durbin being forced to walk the plank when 75% of the Democrats in the Senate and the House think he's hit the bullseye.

[DoughtyOne]

Agreed. Good tactic...

[princess leah]

the President of the United States should stand up and condemn Richard Dustbin and call upon the people of Illinois to have a recall and fire his sorry A$% now, not wait until the next election cycle!

[Balding_Eagle]

Remember the RATS complaints after the 2000 election about how they weren't able to 'Get Our Mesage Out"?

It's sure changed, hasn't it? Their message is getting out loud and clear.

[DoughtyOne]

Cheney's take is pretty much what any proud U.S. citizen's take should be. I am continually amazed though, at how low the democrats will go, still thinking they're tapping into mainstream thought.

The democrat party has turned vile and ugly. There's no longer any pretense that what they say is either right, or what's best for America.

Perhaps the democrats need to quit reading democrat underground, move-on dot org and the A.N.S.W.E.R. web sites, and start recalling who it is, which nation it is that they work for.

I'd say perhaps 0.000001 % of Americans believe Gitmo is anything like Auschwitz. Who then can Durbin hope to be identifying with, other than the terrorists themselves?

[DoughtyOne]

While I agree that's what I'd love to see, you have to realize that act would frame the debate as Bush against Durbin, and the media would play up Durbin from that point as the victim of a free speech infringement.

Let it play out in a slow smolder. Durbin is squirming and we don't need to rescue him by entering the fray.

[Savage Beast]

"...Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings..."

Such are the depths to which the Left has sunk.

The American political and cultural center has shifted dramatically to Middle America from the Leftist power centers. This is the reason.

My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were all Democrats. My children are all Republicans.

[csmusaret]

The Republicans need to start comparing this slander to Lotts little joke, and demand Durbin resign his leadership role.

[daybreakcoming]

Yes, the du'ers are chirping away about how "the tide has turned". They haven't realized the tsunamis-sized backlash of the last few days yet.

[10mm]

Woodrow Wilson had Eugene Debs, a Presidential candidate, charged with sedition and thrown in prison for criticizing American involvement in World War I.

Republicans of today don't have the prunes to do what is necessary. I'm ashamed of them.

[DoughtyOne]

If the tide is turning, then the terrorist's fortunes are. Are the folks at D.U. that dense? No answer is needed for that one.

[nairBResal]

Wont happen. The MSM is providing cover for this idiot.

[F16Fighter]

Why can't someone, anyone in the Bush Administration publically question the mental health of Durbin or Teddy-Boy or Dean?

Cheney's response, much like Dubya's towards Kennedy is much too polite.

Was it too much of him to refer to Dick Durbin as an "F'n wanker who can't tell his brain from his @sshole"?

[onyx]

ROTFLMYKWO!

VP Cheney did give us the word "clymer" --- recall that? lol

[DoughtyOne]

There have been some instances where I have felt exactly the same way you do here. In this instance, I see Durbin over the last few days trying to clarify his statements. He is getting a massive amount of heat from his own side, or he wouldn't be doing that.

By keeping our response measured, it keeps the spotlight off of us, and on Durbin. That's the best we could hope for.

As I see it now, if we respond as you and a few others have reasonably suggested, the focus then becomes Durbin and the person who rails against him. The questions to the person who railed against him will then be the media focus. All focus will move off of Durbin, to the 'outlandish' (the media will play it that way) call for him to resign.

I'm trying to avoid that. I like Durbin doing his two-step in the dark with a bold spotlight focused on him alone.

I do understand the reasons for your wanting the right to call for his resignation, or at least to step down his position. You may be right. I'm not convinced at this point.