AACCKKK! Cheney for Prez 2012?

[babylonsister]

:puke:

Segment on m$nbc just now.

darth doesn't have an end date?

:puke:

[tekisui]

1. He'll never make it with that ticker.

If he were to run, though, it would be a greater landslide for Obama. What what his most recent approval rating, like 8%?

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Agreed. I don't think his health is well enough.

[snake in the grass]

30. Why not?

He can always have one ripped one out of a young virgin somewhere. That's nothing for the "Dick"! I'm sure that's part of his daily ritual, somewhere between his puppy breakfast and masturbating to an enhanced interrogation DVD. How do you think he survived all those previous heart attacks? Socialized medicine?

[scheming daemons]

2. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE run for President, Dick.....

Obama will get 70% of the vote.

[MidwestRick]

11. 70%?

More like 90%. Oh I hope he runs.

[scheming daemons]

13. 30% of this country are hopelessly lost teabagging freepers

[EFerrari]

3. He finally went over the edge.

:wtf:

[gateley]

4. Yeah, I agree with tekisui. In fact, my biggest fear/regret is that Cheney

will die before we get a chance to try him and send him to prison. Although it would do my soul good to see him run and get pulverized by Obama. :evilgrin: :hi:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. That would be fun to watch

That would be the ultimate repudiation of Dick's fearmongering after 4 years of Obama keeping the country safe HIS way. But I don't think he'll run even if he manages to continue remaining a free man in 2012.

[SteppingRazor]

6. I wish.

I mean, talk about a cake walk.

[TwilightGardener]

7. Someone needs to rip out his wires and hard drive. Do all of humankind a favor.

[sharp_stick]

8. CHENEY/PALIN

Because just one crazy isn't enough to git'r'done.

My ideal puke ticket for 2012 if the old pricks heart holds out. Personally I'm not counting on it but that would probably ensure a 50 State sweep for Obama even if he took the rest of his first term off and hung out at a phoney ranch somewhere in Texas.

[Honeycombe8]

29. Palin's not going to accept the #2 spot again. She'll be first, or nothing. PALIN/CHENEY?

Hmmmm.

[WinkyDink]

32. Like he would accept #2 again?

[goclark]

9. You mean the evildoer said it to the M$M

he plans to run ~ that is a joke-right?

Where is that photo of the fit as a fiddle guy in his huge coat in Russia? was it?

[babylonsister]

10. No, he didn't say it, some guy on tv thinks it's be a primo idea.

:scared: I don't remember the name of the org. because just the thought turned my hair whiter. :scared:

[n2doc]

12. Yes! Cheney/Palin- It doesn't get any more bats*it crazy than this! n/t

[goclark]

14. How can he show his face? He must be sending signals

to his crew of devils when he gets on television.

You would think he would fade into the woodwork but he has a need for power. :evil:

[Clio the Leo]

15. Or what I'm REALLY afraid of............

Palin with a brain........



(and larger testicles)

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. Did he actually say that he would run, or is it just pathetic M$M conjecture? n/t

[onenote]

20. more like DU conjecture

"Some guy" from some unnamed organization supposedly said something about wanting this to happen. Context? Can't help you.

In other words, who gives a shit.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

22. Huffington apparently does...

:puke::puke:

Cheney In 2012? Some Key GOPers Aren't Kidding
Updated: 09- 1-09 10:43 AM

At first, it seemed like a joke. Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto opined on Monday that -- if the 2012 election were to turn to national security -- "it's hard to think of a better candidate... than Richard B. Cheney."

But while his headline -- "Cheney for President" -- provoked guffaws in some quarters, several of the party's most well-regarded strategists and pollsters are actually taking the idea deadly seriously.

"The Republican Party needs to move forward and build on its past, not return to it," Alex Castellanos, a frequent CNN analyst and GOP messaging guru, told the Huffington Post via email. "But if the agenda turns to security, Obama is mired in a no-win mess in Afghanistan, and the Obama administration hasn't created a single job in four years after indebting the nation for generations, maybe Dick Cheney could run on a theme of 'Change'."

Asked whether it would be "rich" for a former vice president with four decades of service in D.C. to run on a change platform, Castellanos replied. "Republicans running on a change platform, after Obama, would not be rich. Change might mean 'responsibility and real growth'."

Longtime pollster and GOP operative John McLaughlin also said he sees an opening for a Cheney candidacy premised on a hypothetical national security failure from the current White House.

A Cheney nomination "would be a serious consideration because he really has been a defender of policies that the majority of people now think are successful," McLaughlin told the Huffington Post. "Although right now a lot of people are focused on the economy, if there ever was some sort of foreign policy crisis people will look to Dick Cheney and say he had it right."

Pointing to Cheney's strong favorability rating among Republicans (66 percent in a May 2009 poll compared to Colin Powell's 64 percent), McLaughlin also noted that the former vice president has a strong political platform from which to test the electoral waters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_273470.html

[Arkana]

17. If you think this will happen you're crazy.

Cheney was less popular than Dubya at the end of 2008, and that's quite an accomplishment.

Also, that whole deal with the 18,000 heart attacks...

[onenote]

19. delete: wrong subthread

[krispos42]

18. Cheney must really want the Dems to win in 2012

Typical pattern... they plunder the country then wait until Dems fix it so they can plunder it again.

[livetohike]

21. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel now

It is the end of the GOP as a viable political party. Cheney/Palin in 2012?

[tjwash]

24. WTF? will he run the country from his secret bunker in the UAE?

:crazy:

Cheney-Nugent in 2012 :thumbsup:

[zulchzulu]

25. A buddy of mine with RNC ties says it would be the DEATH of the GOP

The last thing the GOP can stand is some old lying angry war criminal and his sad sack of blabbering offspring defending him. He's going to trash Bush in his upcoming book and that's going to splinter the already splintered GOP.

My friend said that it would be a clusterf*ck if Cheney was even remotely anywhere near being the candidate in 2012. He would have to trash everyone else in the primaries and he's exactly the wrong person to represent the future of the GOP.

Where do I write the check for Cheney 2012? I'll give $6.66.

[rustydog]

26. Please Jesus, make this happen...PLEASE!!!!!!

We could dump Obama, have a shrunken rotten potato run for the ticket and it would kick the shit out of Cheny in the general election.

Shit, it would kick his ass in a debate!

PLEASE make Cheny run for president!

[burning rain]

27. I doubt it--age & health--but Obama would win it in a walk.

The charisma gap alone would sink Cheney. When one candidate has vastly more charisma than the other, you can always count on the vastly more charismatic one winning: 2008 Obama over McCain, 1996 Clinton over Dole, 1992 Clinton over Bush the Elder, 1984 Reagan over Mondale, 1980 Reagan over Carter, 1960 Kennedy over Nixon.

[Canuckistanian]

28. You can't campaign from a bunker

It would be the PERFECT opportunity to question Darth on torture, the Iraq war lies and the outing of Valerie Plame.

In other words - not gonna happen.

[saltpoint]

31. Dick's time is over now, thank Jesus. A core of hardliner Pukes want

Reagan to rise from the grave to lead them to a sunny horizon again but that was a delusional construct to start with and it would be a lot worse now. They remember America under Reagan as a great place, although progressives recall a different place entirely.

Cheney is a powermonger and evidently he appeals to some of that core group. Evidently it's a group comprised of amoral and robotic monsters to whom someone like Cheney has almost unlimited appeal. But his ticker is suspect, and I mean that both ways. With historicallly low approval ratings, I don't think even a fierce, delusional core of GOP heavy-hitters could propel him to the nomination.

Plus, he might be in jail at the time.

Plus there'd be the ritual of Cheney sloughing thru the pig farms of Iowa extolling the virtues of ethanol. It just doesn't seem to be his scene, and I think Iowa Republicans would pick Huckabee the charmer over Cheney the remote Stalinist.

[argonaut]

33. Obama would win 40-45 states.

Run, Dick, run!

[Ter]

34. Isn't it amazing

that 5-10 states would still vote for Dick? In a sane world, Obama would win 50 out of 50...

[yellowcanine]

35. Cheney would first have to get the Republican nomination. I think the chances of that are slim.

In spite of all of their tea partying and town hall thuggery nonsense, I do not believe the Republican Party primary voters are willing to get on that horse again.

[Better BeLIEve Bull]

36. Bring it on, Dick!