Bush can't run again, but Cheney '08

[ProSense]

New York Sun: Cheney ‘Sees An Opening’ And Wants To Run For President

There are some things not fit to print.

[JohnnyLib2]

1. Now THAT'S terra.

:nuke: :scared: :banghead:

[TwilightGardener]

2. Wasn't he supposed to have the batteries for his "heart" replaced this month?

Maybe the Tin Man will emerge all fully-charged and energized for a run. This would be awesome for us! A zap of the defibrillator, a rhythm from the pacemaker, and he can snarl and menace his way through many a town hall meeting. Pinch me, 'cause I'm dreaming!

[Captain Angry]

3. Cheney has been President for years.

He just lets Bush do the press conferences.

There's a reason that both Cheney and Bush had to testify at the same time to the 9/11 commission. Bush might not have gotten the story right without Cheney there to lead.

I want to see one person, who honestly and truly believes that George W. Bush has had any say in anything in the last 7 years. His prior history leaves no indication of his ability to think clearly, or articulate any position on any topic without intense coaching.

[lpbk2713]

4. Hasn't Deadeye Dick plundered the US Treasury enough already?

Vis-a-vis Halliburton?

Seems like he'd have all the money he could ever use by now. :shrug:

[Initech]

5. Cheney = 19% approval rating

He wont have a chance in hell unless he stages a violent coup. So we're safe there.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. ...

fuggit

[GreenTea]

7. Easily hackable republican owned electronic voting machines can give any results

programed, and there's no way for an accurate recount, who ever the easily hacked machines spits out is the winner, we aren't allowed to even look at the tabulations...and 90% of the country will use them in 2008 (The Dems aren't doing anything about it, they believe all is well cuz they won a extremely thin majority). The republicans candidates figure they can cater to their extreme neocon, right-wing base, because the nominee will have the republican huge smear machine, the media and their electronic voting machines,,,and as always the republicans will pretend they are worried as the overconfident Dems can again be in for a shock and subsequent finger pointing....After the machines spit out the programed totals the winner is announced, and then it's too late...Dems will be accused of sour grapes for questioning the results, but the fact will remain the republican will take office and no way to get them out, The tens of millions of screaming republican voters will make sure of that...The republicans don't how they get in office, if it's through cheating fine, their in...making policy, pushing their agenda and sick corporate ideology and philosophy!

[saltpoint]

8. Cheney had his chance for years. He's more of an underground bunker

type of lizard than a gregarious good-ol-boy-on-the-stump lizard, but a lizard just the same.

When the reptile brain exerts dominance over the rest of the brain, even somebody who's smart becomes intolerably unbalanced and wicked. I think that's what happened in at least two examples of otherwise intelligent folks -- The Lizard, SpiderMan's lab-scientist foe, and Dick Cheney.

Dick isn't a Founders citizen. His successes rise from the dark matrix of the anti-Founders, from the energy of abandonment of Founders' principles or even awareness of Jefferson's or Madison's or Paine's vision. In the void of ignorance Cheney's power comes from fear and unawareness. The lazier and more clueless the citizenry, the more power Cheney's kind of lizard enjoys and manipulates. He's interested in power for its own sake and concerns himself with the subversive, dishonest, and cutthroat back alleys one travels to achieve that power. Halliburton is his golden shitwagon to the power lawnfete.

I'm not seeing him having much electoral appeal, especially when even the mainstream media smell his blood in the water. Even a far-right fundie kook like Sam Bownback is more cuddly than Dick Cheney. We're a mediacentric electorate these days and Cheney's hungry crocodile snarl will hurt him in any 08 spotlight, especially after 8 years of a steady downward spiral in pubic approval. We're sick of the stammering monkey and the organ grinder is a monster to boot.

Cheney's already over. Early on he could go on the Sunday talkfabs and lie his way through reasonably fair questions for an hour or more. Not now. He's no voter's favorite. His approval ratings have long ago tanked.

He's out of there come January 09. And good riddance.

[Hippo_Tron]

9. Great, maybe he can campaign on removing the Presidency from the Executive Branch

[opihimoimoi]

10. He would lose his ASS

[saltpoint]

11. And if we are rid of Dick Cheney there's a pretty good chance we won't

have to listen much to his ridiculous wife either.

Neither of the Cheneys inspire much affection at our house. And they hang around some pretty rough characters, too.

One of the (unfortunately) lasting images I have of Dick Cheney is the parka he wore at Auschwitz --

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/210033_cheney29.html

-- in clear defiance of protocol and respect.

The man is a lizard.