Posted on 07/28/2005 11:45:51 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
If Vice President Cheney is indeed a “serious darkhorse” candidate for president in 2008, as Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward recently suggested, he probably won’t want to enlist legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas to help with his press relations, even though she has proposed a campaign strategy he could run on.
Thomas, a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers who has covered the White House since the Kennedy administration, wrote in May that Cheney “certainly could campaign on the theme that he has had experience in running the White House.”
Thomas made the suggestion in a column she wrote about President Bush’s not being notified about a terror scare caused by an off-course Cessna airplane until after it was over, according to Editor & Publisher magazine.
Declaring that the incident “again raises the question of who’s running the show,” Thomas also noted Cheney’s central role on Sept. 11 and the widely held view that he is “probably the most powerful vice president in recent times, perhaps in U.S. history.”
But asked this week if she is promoting a Cheney candidacy, Thomas made it clear she isn’t.
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,” she told The Hill. “All we need is one more liar.”
Thomas added, “I think he’d like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.”
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Looking at the soldier and seaman in the picture reminds me that there is more than one way to die for your country!
I'm sure Hitlery made sure they were never issued live ammo!
Holy crap, I knew she was ugly, but that photo is just shocking.
"I thought Helen Thomas was dead!!!!"
She is..... She just doesn't know it yet.
In that case, our moonbat mutant ought to cover its backside to temper the terrorist threat.
Props for gagging and bagging that moonbat mofo.
SHAME ON YOU.......SUCH CRUELTY TO.............. BABOONS!!!! LOL!!!
Usually you won't find me taking an ugly shot at another but if she can dish it out... My bad!
Ah well, y'know. Just wanted to make it clear that I would never actually say "amen" to Helen Thomas.;)
Am I to assume this will be a mercy killing?
"McClellan is finally going to start chewing some of their asses out from the podium."
I stopped wondering when the republicans would grow a spine long ago.
Yes, they don't know the difference between "legendary" and "putrified"
ROTFLOL! do it, do it, Helen. What would we call you if Cheney runs... a dead corpse or a liar? I'd say the latter. Although, in her case she looks like a corpse already.
LOL. Happy Halloween, Helen!
Argh.... she's as dumb as she looks.
You sir, make Sherlock Holmes look like a 3rd grader! Genius!
I'd be more than happy to loan her my shotgun.
Several have questioned her reporter's credentials.
Just want to point out, she is a COLUMNIST, and as far as I know that is what she has always been known for.
Now COLUMNISTS can also find some news and put it in their columns, but what they mainly are is an opinion writer, like Ann Coulter on our side, for instance. These people are allowed in as "journalists", even if they aren't technically reporters. There are even some talk show hosts in there asking questions.
It is quite a mix, under the heading of journalism, not just under the heading of reporter.
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