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April 05, 2007
Cheney 2008: He's Already IN THE BUSHES!
I don't actually know how to fully express the awesomeness of this New York Sun editorial encouraging Dick Cheney to run for president. "On Monday," writes the Sun, "speaking in Alabama, the vice president received such a warm greeting that he began his remarks by saying, 'A reception like that is almost enough to make you want to run for office again.' It is hard to imagine the vice president did not comprehend how tantalizing such a remark would be." Yep, if I had to pick an adjective to describe a Dick Cheney candidacy for the presidency, "tantalizing" is totally the one I'd choose.
The serious point of the op-ed is that, win or lose, a Cheney candidacy would serve to defend Bush on the campaign trail and force a greater fealty to and respect for George Bush's record from the other candidates. Which is quite a window into the current conservative mindset: Bush isn't unpopular because his policies have been historic failures, he's unpopular because he lacks sufficiently vigorous defenders. On the merits, I agree with the second comment to the article, entitled, "This idea is insane." As a liberal, however, mark me down under "tantalized." Place a constant reminder of George W. Bush on the campaign trail will wreck the Republican Party for a generation. Make that reminder Dick Cheney, and we may as well resuscitate the Whigs. I mean, watch the guy!
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"The serious point of the op-ed is that, win or lose, a Cheney candidacy would serve to defend Bush on the campaign trail..."
Sorry, Ezra, you lost me: an editorial urging Dick Cheney to run for President - can one even think that there IS a "serious point" here?
Maybe the Sun really meant to put this in on April Fool's Day?
Posted by: Jay C | Apr 5, 2007 10:06:14 AM
I've been scratching my parts trying to figure out why Cheney was lurking in the scrubbery during Bush's talk to the empty lawn in the Rose Garden.
Did Georgie ask Darth to come over and listen so he'd not feel so alone?
Did Cheney plant himself in the Bushes to ensure that the Preznit didn't get his message from the Boss wrong?
Very little of Bush's reign with Cheney as regent makes sense, but this video (and the actual performance) truly defies understamding. Where was the greek chorus of WH bushies? Does the President of the United States of America often give speeches to an empty Rose Garden, with the video cameras running?
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | Apr 5, 2007 10:16:44 AM
As Cheney has grown older, the range of his mind control powers has waned. Previously he could put words into the President's mouth from his office looking out the window. Now he has to be lurking in the bushes. By the end of the Presidency, he'll probably have to sit directly behind him and glower from right beside the podium for W to get the words he's supposed to be saying.
Posted by: NonyNony | Apr 5, 2007 10:24:43 AM
Creepy, just plain creepy.
Posted by: MarvyT | Apr 5, 2007 10:40:54 AM
In my book, C-SPAN just earned all the copyright protection they claim in these events. That camera work is priceless.
Posted by: Glenn | Apr 5, 2007 11:38:54 AM
Maybe the Sun really meant to put this in on April Fool's Day?
I literally, genuinely wondered the same thing for a minute. I mean, I realize it's the Sun, but come on...
Posted by: Jason | Apr 5, 2007 12:25:58 PM
Scoff if you like: if he ran, he could probably get the nomination.
And, like, 37% of the vote in the general.
Posted by: Tom Hilton | Apr 5, 2007 12:37:58 PM
Remember: unlike the presidency, the office of the vice-president is not term-limited.
Posted by: DonBoy | Apr 5, 2007 1:23:19 PM
He sure looks like the puppet master in that video.
Can you think of any other VP that would do that, making the president look like the second in command?
Posted by: steve kit | Apr 5, 2007 2:24:41 PM
"The serious point of the op-ed is that, win or lose, a Cheney candidacy would serve to defend Bush on the campaign trail and force a greater fealty to and respect for George Bush's record from the other candidates."
Why would a Cheney candidacey force a greater fealty to and respect for George Bush's record from the other candidates? Wouldn't it make them more likely to denigrate the Bush record, since by doing so they'd also tar Cheney?
Posted by: Molly | Apr 5, 2007 2:52:35 PM
I think Dick Cheney running for president is a wonderful idea. I think Dick Cheney running for president would be a great thing for America.
Posted by: duus | Apr 5, 2007 3:00:00 PM
I've heroically restrained myself so far (today) from using the secret codewords "Dick Cheney Halliburton" to initiate a 20 minute rant in the office next door. I expect kudos for that. Honestly, I love Dick Cheney, his tough SOB persona, his uncompromising conservatism, his I don't give a flying frak what those liberal media wackos say attitude, and above all, I love giggling at the unhinged moonbat mythos surrounding him. Charles Krauthammer was right, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Cheney Variant is widespread indeed.
Posted by: FoolsMate | Apr 5, 2007 3:23:20 PM
My theory about the Rose Garden Lurker is that Bush had to be pushed in front of the camera that day, prior to going on vacation. He wanted to just bail and go hide in his cocoon of sycophants, but they told him he had to take a roundhouse swing at the Dems before he could leave. Boy King dug in his heels, ready for a tantrum, because he so hates to hear his name vilified that he'd rather not make appearances that stir the hornet's nest. I'm guessing it took a prepared speech by the Rovinator, pep talks from various staffers and Cheney's stern countenance at the edge of his field of vision to get Bush to stick to the plan and not just race off to Marine One and flip the whole District off.
Posted by: devil's eye | Apr 5, 2007 3:29:36 PM
FoolsMate -
Ah, its comments like yours that make me think we might just get a Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich run at the prize after all. I'd love to see Dick Cheney in the race almost as much as I'd like to see Newt run.
Not that I'd want to vote for them, but a victory in the primary for those guys would definitely show the country just who and what the GOP stands for these days. Right out in the open, with no pretenses, and none of that "compassionate conservatism" crap.
Posted by: NonyNony | Apr 5, 2007 3:42:55 PM
Tricky Dick Mark II better be careful. The rustling in the brush might be mistaken for quail, and some elderly, heavily medicated and beer'd up would-be gentleman shooter might wheel around and empty two chambers of birdshot into his face.
If that elderly hack shot was the kind of idiot who got five deferments for his war, but fancied himself Lincoln managing a bunch of McLellans in Gulf War I because he watched some goddamned Ken Burns pbs films about the Civil War, and suggested asinine things like dropping the 82nd Airborne miles from anywhere without support in the western desert, it might even be worse.
He might be the kind of guy to make the man with the face full of birdshot apologize for being in the way.
On a serious note, what kind of idiot thinks a fucking 18% approval VP, whom the majority of conservatives say they WOULDN"T support as pres, and who is covering up the true extent of his medical condition, and who is deeply corrupt, as glimpsed on just a small scale by his ties to the MZM/Cunninham/Wade-Wilkes bullshit, and on a large scale by his actions when Halliburton CEO (trading with embargoed Iran, etc), has a chance at electoral victory.
Not to mention, he has BEEN FUCKING WRONG about everything he ever opened his paranoid and drug-addled mouth about.
Way to stay Maverick, NY SUN!
Posted by: Chris | Apr 5, 2007 3:51:18 PM
Ah, its comments like yours that make me think we might just get a Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich run at the prize after all.
Yes, exactly. The primary motivating force for the 27 percenters is pissing off liberals, and nominating Cheney would seem to them like the ultimate fuck you to the sanity-based community. Mark my words: if he runs, the nomination is his.
Posted by: Tom Hilton | Apr 5, 2007 6:03:00 PM
This reminds me of the fantasies that used to alternate with political seances in Bill Safire's old column.
Amidst the high drama of a deadlocked and bitterly divided GOP convention. Suddenly, a door swings open at the rear of the hall. Cue the imperial theme music from Star Wars as a bulky figure begins to stalk down the carpet towards the podium. A chant sweeps the throng building to a thunderous roar:CHENEY!, CHENEY!, CHENEY!
Posted by: WB Reeves | Apr 5, 2007 6:26:41 PM
Well, Cheney's got gravitas and makes me feel safe, and he's welcome in my house any time. He's said he's not interested in running and I believe him. He sure has acted like it for the entire Bush presidency. Plus, although I admire him, his bad state of health makes him an impractical choice. He's not worried about birdshot or even 50-caliber rounds either -- he is literally tougher than nails (eats them for breakfast) and bulletproof.
Posted by: FoolsMate | Apr 5, 2007 7:07:28 PM
did somebody get to Webster's and change the meaning of the word gravitas recently?
Posted by: BillCross | Apr 5, 2007 7:42:07 PM
This video made me laugh out loud, but sort of in a "what the fuck?" kind of way. Beyond parody.
Posted by: Korha | Apr 5, 2007 9:43:16 PM
Tom Hilton -
"The primary motivating force for the 27 percenters is pissing off liberals"
Oh God you're right. If Cheney or Gingrich DON'T get into the race we're going to end up with Giulianni as the GOP nominee just because he'd be the one MOST LIKELY TO PISS OFF THE DIRTY HIPPIES!!!
I wonder if anyone has started a serious DraftCheney movement yet? Or, even better, maybe someone could convince the 27-percenters that it would REALLY piss of the dirty hippies if they nominated John Bolton for the presidency instead...
Posted by: NonyNony | Apr 5, 2007 11:17:52 PM
Chris, be fair, Cheney hasn't been wrong about everything he's ever said. In 1991, he said "I think for us to get American military personnel involved in a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a quagmire".
Posted by: mpt | Apr 5, 2007 11:49:52 PM
I didn't see anything too puppetmaster-y about the video. It was just Cheney engaging in some skulking and glowering. The weather's warming up, what's wrong with a guy engaging in his hobbies outside?
Posted by: Jon O. | Apr 6, 2007 12:24:46 AM
It would really piss me off if we had a Cheney/Rice ticket. Really it would. Did you get that shipmate? I mean I would be MAD!!11!11
Posted by: merlallen | Apr 6, 2007 9:40:53 AM
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