Cheney for president? It’s on a lot of minds / Chait

[ima_sinnic]

Posted on Thu, Mar. 31, 2005

By Jonathan Chait

In the summer of 2000, Dick Cheney was appointed to find a vice presidential candidate for George W. Bush, and, as we now know, the winner of the search turned out to be Dick Cheney.

Today, Republicans are casting about for a successor to Bush. And the winner of that search just may turn out to be ... Dick Cheney.

The Draft Cheney movement is burbling just below the surface. Fred Barnes suggested it earlier this month in the Weekly Standard. Tod Lindberg of the Washington Times and Lawrence Kudlow of National Review Online echoed Barnes in columns this week.

Cheneymania has reached critical mass.

The obvious objection is that Cheney has denied any interest in running. Cheney’s value, as both he and Bush have stated repeatedly, lies in his total devotion to this administration and lack of ulterior political motives. But the Cheney-ites have come up with a response: Cheney, they argue, is the ideal candidate to safeguard Bush’s legacy in 2009 and beyond. . . .

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/11275740.htm

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Cheneymania???!! now that IS a scarey thought! geesh, are people really that excruciatingly STUPID?

[Wright Patman]

1. They must be really confident

in Black Box Voting.

Cheney's "approval" ratings have never been much over 30 percent. He is one scary mutha and even his side realizes this. To me, he's like a resuscitated zombie. I am much more ready to believe he MIHOP'ed 9-11 than I am *, although it is more likely than not that both were in on it.

[ClintonTyree]

2. With Bill Frist as V.P...........................

in case crashcart has the big one, the neo-con agenda doesn't miss a heartbeat with Frist as back-up. :eyes: The most scary thing is, it might come true!

[patricia92243]

3. How many heart attacks hs he had

[BrklynLiberal]

4. PUH-LEEZE! I have not had my coffee yet!!!!

[democrat in Tallahassee]

5. he's so lovable, how could he lose> go for it dickhead.

[winston61]

6. Rove and Cheney

It's a close tie between these two for the title of Satan or the Prince of Darkness. Both men are devoted to the destruction of the country.

[Gyre]

7. They could run a holograph of ronny raygun

and would win. Has to do with stolen elections and sheeple so fat and stupid that they don't care they no longer have a right to representation.

Nothing to look forward to except Totalitaria the beautiful.

Gyre