Posted on 04/10/2006 1:32:57 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bush Glad Cheney Not Running for President
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago
President Bush said Monday he sure is glad Vice President Dick Cheney is not going to be campaigning to replace him.
It was no knock against Cheney's leadership skills, Bush said, but a practical consideration about making his last years in office run smoothly. Having the No. 2 angling to be No. 1 "certainly changes the dynamics inside the White House," the president said.
"I'm not through yet, you know," Bush said to a questioner who asked whom he would support in the 2008 race. Bush said he still wanted to reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East, get a bipartisan solution to the problem of funding Social Security and Medicare and create a legal status for immigrants who want to work in the United States.
"I am going to spend two-and-a-half years charging as hard as I possibly can," Bush said. "I want to sprint out of office. And I will be an interested observer, and I'm sure I'll be roped into moments after our party nominates a candidate, but I'm just going to let the politics run its course."
Bush said the race will be "an amazing moment" with wide open primaries in both major parties and no sitting vice president or president in the race.
"I guess it's the most wide-open race ever," Bush said, then corrected himself. "Oh, it can't be ever. Ever is too long. But in a long time."
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As far as I can tell, George Allen is the only serious candidate who hasn't sold us out on immigration. Sure, Tancredo will make a protest run, but is there anyone besides Allen who is a serious player?
And how good a candidate is Allen?
I'd like to nominate Secretary Rumsfeld, just because the press conference smackdowns would be so much fun to watch.
Wait, he isn't? Bush won? Oh, well, umm... we have a draft now! Michael Moore, Charles Rangel, those guys? They knew that a draft was coming if Bush won the election in '04, and now we have one!
We don't? Well, there's a bill in Congress to reinstate the draft! Wait, Rangel himself put it there? Yeah, then it kind of doesn't count...
But I'm sure that the DUmmies will be right about this one! A coup is coming! In January 2009, the DUmmies will be vindicated! One of their predictions will, at long last, be correct!
I'd just want him for press secretary. Him or Russel Honore.
LOL- now we're talkin'!
If a press conference doesn't end with the entire Washington Press Corps in a fetal position, then the press secretary isn't doing his job. I want Honore for press secretary.
Vote Rumsfeld/Honore in '08
'We don't take crap off of media nitwits'
I think by 2010, the media would have to conscript people to serve in the Washington press corps.
I know I will be demonized if I predict this. But here goes. Repubs will lose big in 2006 and 2008. Because (a) Energy prices. Not Bush's fault but Repubs will get blame (b) Repubs PR sucks (3) Media fabricating a culture of corruption. So the masses will go to the polls and vote Dumbocrat.
Well, that will doom your last two years in office if you keep refusing to listen to your base, Bush.
Allen has not shown himself ready for Prime Time though I do like him. VP maybe. The nomination is Guiliani's to lose.
This will be the first Presidential election since 1952 (Ike vs Stevenson) in which neither the sitting President nor sitting Vice-President is running. In fact, Dick Cheney will be the first Veep since Agnew to not run for the White House.
Those problems will not defeat the GOP only the internal knife fighting can do it. So far the bleeding has been tremendous from pygmies and Know Nothings slashing and burning.
Why? Cheney may have a good shot at it?
..sorry, couldn't resist.
That's exactly who we need as press sec. Either one would be my dream come true! Ari would be great too.
:-(
Allen has potential. He just needs to stick tp one topic in interviews. I think he has become less wooden recently.
Gee, that's funny. I don't recall that being a big winning issue for him in the last campaign. In fact, it was mentioned about....once.
I know of no wellspring of support for this among the Broken Glass Republicans. There are no "movement Conservatives" chomping at the bit to "create legal status" for illegal aliens.
So how did this become a Big Item for Mr. Bush? There is no electoral support for it. Guess those campaign $$ gotta flow, though...
"The nomination is Guiliani's to lose."
Maybe, but he is in love with illegal aliens from what I recall. I'm trying to think of realistic candidates I can support.
No one in the GOP is "in love with illegals". Fantasy is kicking up again.
Wasn't Ford's Veep Rockefeller? When did he run for the WH? When Ford ran for re-election he had Dole as his running mate, which seemed odd to me.
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