Looks like they're going at it again.
Regardless of who makes the Presidency, keeping Vice President Richard B. Cheney hanging around the Naval Observatory wouldn’t be a bad idea.
However, Cheney was not running for President. There really is a big difference. The international perception of the US government is always closely tied to the President. The VP is an asterisk. The Republican Party would be crazy to nominate a candidate who can reasonably be expected to die or be very ill and close to death before the end of his first term.
Yep. This is exactly what they did to Cheney.
When Ronald Reagan was running for his first term as President, I remember cartoonists drawing him as an old geezer in a wheelchair. He was too old to be President, you see. That all changed after the assassination attempt.