Sun 14 Aug 2005
Bob Woodward of Watergate fame believes it is “highly likely” that Dick Cheney will be running for president in 2008. His reasoning (at least that given by the Denver Post article) seems pretty worthless, but let’s assume for the moment he’s right. How awesome would that be?
Consider the divisiveness inside the GOP as a war breaks out over whether or not Dick “Freedom means freedom for everyone” Cheney is socially conservative enough to represent them. Or if his ties to Halliburton are too much of a liability. Or if his poll numbers are strong enough to beat Hillary Clinton’s.
A fellow blogger who calls herself The Christian Progressive Liberal says it best, I think:
For starters, you can hang war profiteering around his neck (former CEO of Halliburton); especially if the Iraq war isn’t over, and Dubya starts conflicts with other members of the Axis of Evil (I can see Cheney pissing off North Korea as I write this).
You can tag Cheney with all the sliming of honest, ethical individuals who take a stand for what is right and tell the truth, because he’s doing it right now. You honestly think Bush is capable of such devious planning and implementation of slime and slander? Please, if you read “Bush on The Couch” by Dr. Justin Frank, you will agree with his assessment that Bush is totally incapable of intelligent thought on a long term basis. That also explains his “gut feeling” impulses versus relying on facts, logic and actually having to perform the labor of reading and comprehension.
Cheney is not a likable person. Most of us would like to think that the President is someone with a personality that actually is likeable. Even Tricky Dick Nixon was likeable, in small doses. That’s why GeeDubya was able to get public office - he knows how to schmooze and make people let down their guard to actually LIKE HIM. Can you see Dick Cheney engaging in anything warm and fuzzy, personal, intimate?
That last point is important. Everything I’ve read about George W. Bush indicates that when you’re in his presence, he’s quite likeable. So as detestable as he and his cronies may be, you can at least understand why some people are drawn to him. After all, Bill Clinton’s charisma was legendary as well. You never hear that about Dick Cheney. The guy comes off cold as ice.
So right now all I can hope is that Bob Woodward’s got another Deep Throat confirming Dick Cheney’s 2008 bid for the presidency. Once it’s confirmed, I’ll be happy to help him win the Republican nomination. In the meantime, I’ll work on Christopher Walken’s candidacy.
August 14th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
http://www.walken2008.com/
Amazing! Is this for real?
August 15th, 2005 at 9:50 am
Haha, I doubt it. One could only hope.
August 16th, 2005 at 7:39 pm
Please, if you read “Bush on The Couch” by Dr. Justin Frank, you will agree with his assessment that Bush is totally incapable of intelligent thought on a long term basis. That also explains his “gut feeling” impulses versus relying on facts, logic and actually having to perform the labor of reading and comprehension.
The reason why liberals and democrats keep getting flustered by GeeDubya is because they keep thinking that he’s some characture of Droopy, accidently getting into and out of trouble. The fact of the matter is that 1) GeeDubya has a nice political machine behind him that played enough of the right notes for two elections straight and 2) GeeDubya isn’t as stupid as he seems, since if he was stupid he would have ruined one of those elections by himself.
The democrats were publically so focused on GeeDubya this past election that during the primaries if you didn’t bash Bush you weren’t going to be a contender. In fact, right up until the convention, there was a very public ‘Bush is bad for this country’ message getting sent. Then, somebody wised up and told the party to focus on their candidates, and not Bush. But it was still there.
For somebody they totally focused their hatred on for years, its sad to see the democrats underestimate and continue to belittle their victorious opponent. Hopefully now the democrats (or a new liberal party) will seperate themselves from the poltical games and start addressing the needs of the people.