Posted on 02/15/2006 8:14:37 AM PST by presidio9
I wonder if somewhere Vince Foster and Mary Jo Kopechne are shaking their heads.
I predict that the nation will remember Dick Cheney far longer than it remembers Michael Goodwin.
Politicians really do lose power when people laugh at them.
The writer managed to mention both "Neocons" and "Halliburton" in the same paragraph. What a fool.
I predict history will look much more kindly on Cheney and Bush than the early 21st century press.
HOw long before the MSM or Howard Dean starts calling the Bush administration "the gang that couldn't shoot straight"?
That's the plan anyway at some point, I hope.
The most important thing to note when deciding whether or not the writer of this article has a valid point is that the name "Clinton" does not appear, even once. It is telling when a writer clearly ignores facts that clash with their basic premise. Clinton (I did not have sex with that woman) has been the butt of a thousand times more ridicule than Ford, Carter, and Cheney taken together, yet there's not a Clinton reference in sight, and he remains a driving force in his party and on the world stage. Garbage in, garbage out...
If Algore or Kerry had mistakenly shot someone during a hunting accident, we'd be howling too.
The MSM, however, would obviously havebeen downplaying it a zillion times less than they are now....
This too shall soon pass...
Yeah, but Cheney's old and has already said he has no intentions of running for further public office.
Furthermore, Cheney and Bush actually did something during their time in office. The stuff I was taught about Carter's administration when I was in school was stagflation, hostage scandal, impotent against the USSR. Ford was the president who was never elected and really didn't do much of anything to speak of while he was in office.
This is not an apples to apples comparison.
That's the plan anyway at some point, I hope.
Condolezza Rice is pro-choice and therefore unelectable in her own right. She has admitted as much herself. Making her a VP serves no purpose, as this is the end of the road for her.
If this guys hypothesis was correct, teddy Kennedy would have faded into obscurity decades ago...
Al Gore is in Saudi Arabia giving ridiculous speeches, but he is just fine by the media. Nothing clumsy, psychotic or stupid has been done by Mr Gore.
Stained blue dress and finger wagging.
Indeed, the two presidents that I can think of who were most ridiculed were Reagan (for being "senile"), and Clinton (for obvious reasons).
The author forgets one important element: both Carter and Ford were done in by their own blundering, not that of their respective Vice-Presidents. And the ridicule made a lasting impression because both men had to stand for re-election (or election, in Ford's case).
President Bush has already been re-elected. Thus this storm, despite its fury, will soon pass. Unless Whittington dies.
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