What qualifications did cheney have to be vp?

[southernleftylady]

What did he do before being vp? I mean... why pick him? what did he "add" to the bush ticket?
I am just DUMBFOUNDED that bush was the "best" rightie they could find to run? he is a fumbling IDIOT so why wasnt it cheney/bush? ... i am trying to understand their way of thinking but damn... lol i cant

[LittleApple81]

1. He picked himself, don't you know. He was supposed to recommend

somebody, so he said he was the best choice.
HE HAS BEEN THE PUPPETEER SINCE BEFORE THE ELECTION!!

[Malva Zebrina]

2. I looked up Cheney's voting record before the election

it was so far to the right as to be nazi-ite. I kid you not

Since then, I have not been able to find it again. But I know when I read it that here was a man that was not a man, but an evil son of abitch.

[VolcanoJen]

3. Check out Kerry's latest response to the "Edwards lack of experience"..

.. argument in this Washington Post interview; good stuff here!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41190-2004Jul10.html

"Don't get suckered into the how-many-years-you've-been-in-one-job" debate, said Kerry. "You've got people in who have been in one job 30 years of what you call experience and they have done nothing, they don't stand for anything and they don't know how to fight."

The measure of a leader, he said, is a "person's character, a person's values, a person's abilities and political skills and ability to work with other people and bring people to a cause." Kerry called this the "character of toughness."

Edwards added:

Edwards suggested Bush's career is not reflective of American values either.

"George Bush and others can say whatever they want now about what their values are, but what have they spent their life doing? Have they shown in their life experience, not just in the time they've been in politics, but in their life experience, that they have the values that Americans looked up to and respected," Edwards said. "It's just difficult for me to imagine anybody in my little hometown in rural North Carolina looking up to and respecting someone more than John Kerry."

[UrbScotty]

4. He was a far-right conservative who was in Daddy's administration. (nt)

[gmoney]

5. He's pure evil?

That seems to trump everything else.

[muffin_man]

6. Here is his voting record and Bio.

Voting record
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BWY44812

Bio
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/

[RoeBear]

7. What I recall is that he had ...

...gravitas.

Haven't they found a cure for that yet?

[HEyHEY]

8. Friends with G-Dub?

[fujiyama]

9. He was secretary of defense under Bush Sr.

and he had an extremely far right voting record in the house. He voted against sanctioning South Africa for example. I think Mandela made a crack about that fact once.

Either war Cheney's about as big an ass hole as you can find among republicans, and that's hard to choose, considering you've got so many.

[Hobo]

10. None...eom