Change in GOP Running Mate Seems Unlikely

[La_Serpiente]

Change in GOP Running Mate Seems Unlikely

WASHINGTON - Dick Cheney (news - web sites) is only six years older than President Bush (news - web sites), but his long government resume and graying presence helped offset the Texas governor's lack of seasoning and foreign policy experience in 2000.

Those same avuncular qualities seem less politically reinforcing now, with Bush facing a difficult re-election battle and Cheney, 63, burdened by political baggage of his own.

Allegations of profiteering in Iraq (news - web sites) by oil services giant Halliburton, which Cheney once headed, and his frequent claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction have become standard Democratic targets.

Bush strongly backs the former Wyoming congressman, who served as his father's defense secretary and President Gerald Ford's chief of staff. But some Republicans are quietly asking whether Cheney will help or hinder the ticket among voters this November.

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Change in GOP Running Mate Seems Unlikely

[IronLionZion]

1. Dick Cheney

before he dicks you.

[lancdem]

2. They can't dump Cheney

because Cheney is the de facto president.

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Good

[lancdem]

4. I agree

BTW, notice the article didn't mention that he's up to his eyeballs in Plamegate.

[Miss Authoritiva]

5. Giuliani as VP Too Dangerous

"'Let's put it this way, I'd love to see Giuliani as vice president,' said Jerry Roe, a Michigan historian and former state Republican party executive director."

It amuses me that some Republicans suggest Giuliani as a replacement for Cheney. All they think about is Bush standing in the glow left over from Giuliani's truly masterful response to 9-11. But then again, Giuliani's presence on the ticket would trigger endless questioning about Bush's morally horrifying loafer-dragging on setting up and participating with the 9-11 Commission. Giuliani as VP cuts both ways, but which cut will be the deepest?

[Bandit]

6. McCain is licking his chops as we speak

:-( He will make it a much tougher row to hoe but we will win out in the end.