Posted on 05/20/2009 12:04:13 PM PDT by pissant
Dick Cheney is 68, white and bitter. He is the Republican Party today.
The Republican Party has no serious wing other than the Cheney wing. The moderate wing of the Republican Party is distinguished by the fact that it does not exist, and yet it is still shrinking.
Arlen Specter, senator from Pennsylvania, recently left the Republicans for the Democrats, and Jon Huntsman, the Republican governor of Utah, is joining the Obama administration as its ambassador to China.
After Huntsman’s appointment was announced last week, article after article said he had been one of his party’s “leading” candidates for the presidential nomination in 2012.
Leading candidate? With the possible exception of Salt Lake City, you could fire a cannon down the main street of any city in America at high noon and not hit a person who had ever heard of Jon Huntsman.
Everybody has heard of Dick Cheney. True, a Washington Post headline last week said: “As Cheney Seizes Spotlight, Many Republicans Wince.” But a wince can sometimes be mistaken for a spasm of ecstasy.
Cheney has many pluses. He is very, very good on TV. (People who don’t like what he says overlook how good he is at saying it.) He is calm, articulate and often courageous. Who else but Dick Cheney would have the guts to go on “Face the Nation With Bob Schieffer” and say “in terms of being a Republican, I’d go with Rush Limbaugh” rather than Colin Powell?
After that, Maureen Dowd wrote: “Cheney, who had five deferments himself to get out of going to Vietnam, would rather follow a blowhard entertainer who has had three divorces and a drug problem (who also avoided Vietnam) than a four-star general who spent his life serving his country.”
To which the Republican wing of the Republican Party replies, “Yeah? So who wouldn’t?”
One of Cheney’s greatest attributes is that he revives the whole “Daddy Party vs. Mommy Party” argument that has bedeviled Democrats for decades.
Republicans say they are the Daddy Party. They are strong and will protect us from communists, terrorists and people who want to take away our guns. Republicans say Democrats are the Mommy Party. They say Democrats care only about social programs for the poor, don’t care about national defense and don’t understand terrorism.
Bill Clinton described the dilemma in December 2002 by saying: “When people feel uncertain, they’d rather have someone strong and wrong than weak and right.”
Cheney offers a clear choice. He is for waterboarding to save the United States from terrorism. He is a Daddy Party kind of guy.
True, President Obama gave the go-ahead for the military to shoot three pirates last month. But Cheney actually shot a guy in the head once. How Daddy Party can you get?
And why do you think Barack Obama has been so busy recently trying to cover his right flank? Now he doesn’t want to release torture pictures, he is in favor of military tribunals and he is not planning to reinstate a ban on assault weapons anytime soon. He also is not joining the attack on Nancy Pelosi, who apparently knew all about waterboarding (but insisted it be done with Evian).
The Republicans need a person who knows how to attack. John McCain never seemed comfortable in that role. When McCain would mention Obama during his campaign speeches and people in the crowd would yell “Off with his head,” McCain would actually try to calm them. Cheney would have said: “Why stop with his head?”
Dick Cheney is the voice, the face, the spirit and the guts of the Republican Party today.
He’s tanned, he’s rested and his approval ratings can only go up.
The Republicans could do worse in 2012. And probably will.
The Republicans could do worse in 2012. And probably will.
The dems are feeling pretty good these days. Wait til they find out that all those people that voted for Obama did so because it was “cool”. Now that the excitement is over and “change” is afoot, voting is for squares. Look at the California budget vote yesterday—how many Suzy Creamcheese Obama voters showed up? Yeah, somewhere between zero and none.
dick cheney put nancy pelosi et al in their place.
He has a few issues I am uncertain about, but, if he got the nomination, I would not only vote Republican, I would claim to be a member of the party again.
Yup, Ms Creamcheese stayed home, I mean cmon, nothin dreamy at all about those props.
Only the truly motivated came out to vote and the majority of those were Tea Partygoers.
I’ve said it before...I wouldn’t care what VP Cheney runs for....He’s got my vote!!
People were sick and tired of Bush & Co last year. Just bone-weary. Cheney was a large part of that.
Without regard to his qualifications, anyone who thinks Cheney could be elected in 2012 is fooling themselves.
Oh my God! the leader of our party (in this person’s eyes) is WHITE???!!! How could we let that happen!
I stopped reading after that.
I guess a liberal’s idea of “getting past race” is substituting one kind of racism for another. Didn’t Anne Counter remark that Democrats were for racial queality for about fifteen minutes somewhere around 1969? they have not been before or since.
Liz Cheney.....then she could appoint her Dad as Sec of Defense!!!
On the contrary, if Cheney keeps this up, he will be a shoe-in for the nomination, if he chose to run (which is unlikely). And unlike Bush, Cheney defends himself with stiff uppercuts and deadly choke holds on his opponents.
America loves a fighter.
And the definition of “white and bitter?” Why, anyone who does not bend over deeply for the democrat party/NY Times/AFL-CIO and Homosexuals-R-Us.
Love that “mommy party” / “daddy party” analogy.
And the definition of “white and bitter?” Why, anyone who does not bend over deeply for the democrat party/NY Times/AFL-CIO and Homosexuals-R-Us.
My MSNBC watching Randi Rhodes listening sister recently came unglued on our mother one day telling her “You can’t believe the evil that Bush and Cheney have done” and she believes Obama is there to fix it. She thinks we killed over 1 million innocents in Iraq all for the profit of Cheney and their rich friends.
Seriously.
This is what we have to overcome.
It’s actually a fairly good article on Cheney, compared to most in the MSM.
And unlike any RAT politician, just gave > 75% of his income to charity.
Yeah, that's a bitter heart for ya.
Amen!!
LOL. This is certainly true (he's at 10%) and Obama has no place to go but down too, problem is it's along way for both. Cheney is pro-same sex marraige rights. The Hannity/Levin invasion bots ignore this. .
What's with the nutty Bush-Cheney posts today anyway. ?
Not so! They were sick of Bush. Chaney has always been popular with conservatives.
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