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Cheney named Conservative of the Year
CNN ^ | 12/21/09 | Alex Mooney

Posted on 12/21/2009 10:21:41 PM PST by pissant

(CNN) - He may have exited the national stage nearly one year ago, but former Vice President Dick Cheney has been named "Conservative of the Year" by the conservative Human Events magazine for his ardent and continuous criticisms of the Obama administration's national security policies.

"What Cheney is saying, primarily on foreign policy, defense and anti-terrorism, makes sense to more and more American citizens growing increasingly worried by the Obama Administration's insouciance when U.S. national interests are threatened, both at home and abroad," former U.N. ambassador John Bolton writes for the magazine.

"Since the only real, long-term way to deal with persuasive positions on substantive policy matters is to refute them with sounder policy arguments, it is not hard to understand why the Obama White House is near panic," Bolton also writes. "Where are they going to go to find a better policy inside his administration?"

In a series of interviews and speeches over the last year, Cheney declared President Obama had put the country's security at an elevated level of risk as a result of a string of national security decisions that largely went at odds with Bush administration practices.

Cheney's comments have met criticism from many Democrats and some members of the media who say he would be better off following the example set by former President George Bush, who has remained largely silent on the actions of his successor.

But in the Human Events article, Bolton said its necessary former leaders continue to defend their policies.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2009review; bigdick; conservatives; dickcheney; humanevents; manoftheyear
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To: Nextrush

See post 20


21 posted on 12/23/2009 2:03:33 PM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: AuntB

Cheney left Congress with a 100% ACU rating, so I don’t think his toeing the bosses line on Amnesty is disqualifier. Palin parroted McCain’s BS. I don’t recall Cheney speaking out on the Amnesty bill at all.

He’s been right on most issues.

I’ll see if I can find out how he voted on Reagan’s amnesty.


22 posted on 12/23/2009 2:09:48 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

He may not be the MOST conservative, but it sounds good to me.


23 posted on 12/24/2009 1:06:57 PM PST by SuziQ
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