Hope this isn't a dupe. Looks like Chimpy may be forced into finding a new running mate.
http://www.gazettenet.com/story.cfm?id_no=11130047Thursday, November 13, 2003 -- Is Vice President Dick Cheney an electoral liability for President Bush? Some top Republicans are reportedly worried that Cheney's actions might threaten Bush's bid for re-election in 2004.
The dump-Cheney talk probably originated with disgruntled State Department folks, who would like nothing better than to undermine the neocon foreign-policy cabal headed by Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The movement's underlying premise is that the vice president's hawkish positions and statements related to terrorism, Iraq and foreign policy have put Bush at risk. Here's a telling statement:
The vice president's experience in Washington was supposed to balance Bush's lack of expertise in that area. If Cheney, who was elected six times to Congress, can't hold together a GOP Congress for a Republican president, perhaps Bush needs to tap someone else for the job. I'm thinking we just need to replace Shrub to get things through Congress again....do you suppose it has something to do with the fact that what he is pushing is considered horse puckey even by Repug standards?