This is in the NYT.
Was there a shift in the time continuum ???
You have to read to the end to get to the predictable punchline. If Cheney had run, he would have been crushed and the Republican party could drop this damned true conservatism and become the Democrat-lite that everyone wants.
I think Cheney would have sliced Obama to shreds in the debates. A Cheney/Palin team would have been pretty awesome. He probably would have lost, but Republicans would certainly feel better about the effort.
The author wishes Cheney had run so that “when he went down to a landslide loss, the conservative movement might – might! – have been jolted into the kind of rethinking that’s necessary if it hopes to regain power.”