Posted on 02/27/2006 1:09:23 PM PST by teddyballgame
Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to retire within a year.
Senior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections. The sources said Mr. Cheney would be persuaded to step down as he becomes an increasing political liability to President Bush.
The sources reported a growing rift between the president and vice president as well as their staffs. They cited Mr. Cheney's failure to immediately tell the president of the accidental shooting of the vice president's hunting colleague earlier this month. The White House didn't learn of the incident until 18 hours later.
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God I don't think I could handle any more confirmation hearings this year...
Not this again!
Same tired old panderers pandering on.
Really ? How so ? There's a lot of center-left, center, *and* center-right votes that wouldn't be too worried about that. She'd carry the black vote more than any Republican candidate ever. She's very electable.
Typically the Republican candidate receives the endorsement of the Conservative and Right To Life Parties, neither of which is likely to endorse a pro-choice candidate. For many normal Republican voters, this is the #1 issue. I know many Catholic who would otherwise vote Democrat if not for the issue of abortion. Do not underestimate this issue. Personally, I will vote for whatever candidate the Republican party nominates, but if the Republican Party nominates a pro-choice candidate, it will lose.
I agree entirely...the Democrats would count the early departure of Cheney as one of their crowning achievements.
I believe I'm arguing the opposite. I agree it may be difficult to nominate a pro-choice candidate, but it would not be difficult to elect one. Of course, people seem to look at this issue as black/white. It isn't. There's various shades of this. Someone recently tried to make a compromise platform, as "legal, safe, and very rare". I think on that type of compromise platform and other great conservative credentials Rice (or any conservative, but not quite "ban abortion" conservative) could get elected.
"Safe, legal & rare" equals "pro-abortion." Hillary Clinton was the one who coined the phrase, and she gets a 100% rating from NARL.
Here's the pro-choice Republican's problem in a nutshell:
Democrats make up a majority of registered voters. Republicans are able to win because they have a huge advantage in "likely voters." When Republicans run an off-brand candidate, that advantage goes away. The only states that really matter in an election right now are Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. All others are either too small or out of play. Lynn Swann's race is not helping him in Pennsylvania, so it won't help Rice. Even is he somehow wins the election, he will lose black Philidelphia badly.
Lower Florida is dominated by liberals. Upper Florida by Chistian Conservaitves. Without their vote, Florida goes to the Democrats. I don't know enough about Ohio demographics to have an opinion there (I have lived in the other two states). In any case, if the Democrats win NY, California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Massachussttes, Ohio is a moot point.
I don't know if this was always done this way. But early on in the history of our republic, the first runner-up who didn't win became the vp. But this may have been done only at the general election time. I can't remember what they did if a vp died, or became incapacitated between the elections. I know what they did when a president had to quit for some reason between elections, of course.
How many times have I heard the MSM breathlessly tout this BS! Now Drudge is swallowing it???? COME ON MATT!
Good one, I must say!
bwahahahaha
I don told you a thousand million times....DON"T EXAGERATE
Thank you for that warning.
I've noticed something odd: You only seem to be bothered by the Plame "leak," a leak that wasn't a leak at all and did nothing to damage our national security or reveal any protected information to terrorists. Conspicuous by their absence are threads or posts on the other leaks, false and otherwise, such as the black prisons leak, the NSA leak, etc.
It would appear you're only concerned with compromises of national security if they involve someone close to Bush, to the point that you will ignore real damage to our nation.
Got any proof otherwise?
What are the horrible failures you mention? (This should be fun.)
Pshaw.
Yes, the President was upset at Mr. Cheneys hunting accident. He didn't like when it became known he, Cheney, had shot a friend instead of John Kerry.
>> Unlike John C. Calhoun, who resigned to take a seat in the Senate, Agnew resigned and then pled nolo contendere (no contest) to a criminal charge of tax evasion, part of a negotiated resolution to a scheme wherein he allegedly accepted $29,500 in bribes during his tenure as governor of Maryland. <<
--Wikipedia.
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