Republicans to Cheney: Get lost
posted at 11:29 am on March 24, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Beware the man with nothing to lose.
Don’t get Capitol Hill Republicans wrong; they love Dick Cheney. More specifically, according to The Hill, they’d love to see him retire rather than take the lead in criticizing Barack Obama:
Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input.
Displeased with the former vice-president’s recent media appearances, Republican lawmakers say he’s hurting GOP efforts to reinvent itself after back-to-back electoral drubbings. …
Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became so unpopular while he was in the White House that it would probably be better for us politically if he wouldn’t be so public…But he has the right to speak out since he’s a private citizen.”
Another House Republican lawmaker who requested anonymity said he wasn’t surprised that Cheney has strongly criticized Obama early in his term, but argued that it’s not helping the GOP cause.
It’s hard to blame either side. Dick Cheney mostly kept his own counsel while serving as George Bush’s VP, but now he’s free to talk — and to make sure that history gets his role correct. Part of that will be pushing back against Obama and his assignment of blame onto the Bush administration for the various ills he faces now as an executive as a means to redirect criticism.
Republicans in office now probably don’t begrudge him the effort of setting history straight, but they’d like to move beyond the Bush era of party leadership, including Cheney. They need to find new voices and fresher faces than Cheney, who fairly or unfairly gets little affection or sympathy from the American people at the moment. The media would love to make Cheney the national face of the Republican Party, as it offers them an opportunity to keep blaming Bush rather than look at the effects of Deadbeatonomics, Obama’s “reset button” foreign policy, or his AG’s assertion that we will have to release Gitmo detainees in the US in order to convince Europe to take a few themselves as the cost of closing the detention center.
George Bush said that he owed Obama his “silence”, in the tradition of American presidents with their successors. Perhaps he also shrewdly considered the benefits of silence to his own party as well. However, if the GOP wants to take the lead on substantive criticisms of the Obama administration, then they’re going to have to do better than buying into Bonus Outrage and Obama’s budget-busting plans for federal expansion. Until Republicans start speaking loudly and rationally, they’re leaving a vacuum for Cheney and others to fill – and that’s not Cheney’s fault, or the media.
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That’s doublespeak for revisionism.
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM
It’s funny how the Republicans are always so willing to let their enemies write their epitaphs. There’s a big part of the RINO wing that can’t wait to bend the knee in front of Democrats and agree that the last Republican president or congressman was totally awful, nothing good about him at all, let us never speak of him again.
You don’t see Democrats doing that – they’re still not willing to publicly concede Jimmy Carter was an utter failure, and they kept the awful Tom Daschle in good enough shape to make him an (initially) plausible cabinet appointee, four years after he led the congressional Democrats into oblivion. You won’t find a single Democrat politician anywhere who is willing to concede Barney Frank or Chris Dodd did anything wrong, and they get violently angry when confronted with Bill Clinton’s culpability in the events leading up to 9/11.
Republicans, on the other hand, are too timid to mention the nearly miraculous Bush economy post-9/11, the Greatest Story Never Told. They seem embarrassed to extend any gratitude to Bush or Cheney for their courage in facing the terrorist enemy, or remaining constant while opportunistic Democrats were staggering around, looking for a surviving al-Qaeda leader they could surrender to. They don’t want to talk about Bush’s thwarted attempts to rein in Fannie Mae, which can only be criticized for not being energetic enough. Hell, John McCain didn’t even want to mention his own warnings on the subprime crisis – he seemed to think it would be rude to bring up the subject, so you mostly read about it on conservative blogs. McCain spent his entire campaign pre-emptively agreeing with the Democrats’ epitaph for him.
The average voter could be forgiven for thinking Dick Cheney is a strange, sinister old man who said and did nothing after moving into the White House in 2000, other than periodically emerge to shoot someone in the face.
Doctor Zero on March 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Cheney’s voice is the ONLY rational one out there…
stacman on March 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM
onlineanalyst on March 24, 2009 at 5:11 PM
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 6:18 PM
VP Cheney was one of the smartest guys in Washington. I wish he had been POTUS. Liberal press did, and continues, to do everything thing they can to villify the man. F the MSM and liberal dems!
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Thanks for this. Think it would look good on a 4/15 tea party poster.
Christian Conservative on March 24, 2009 at 6:20 PM
McCain: Go easy on Geithner
Cheney: The Obama adminstration is making us less safe.
Moderates — get out of the way! We’ve got to challenge the socialists and play hard ball (er, not the Matthews kind.)
Christian Conservative on March 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Thankfully he’s got less of a chance than McCain, forever a marked man for the entirety of his remaining life.
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Don’t mess with my Dick. To wimpy Republicans Lite I say “Snap out of it!”
sissywillis on March 24, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Whoops! Correct link for “Snap out of it!” (above comment)
sissywillis on March 24, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Let him speak.
Rose on March 24, 2009 at 6:33 PM
So you want them to eat cake, Ms. Antoinette?
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM
I’m with ya…look where moderates playing nice with dems/liberals got us! It is time to FIGHT! Figuratively of course…
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM
That is the problem.
Some of these so called Republicans are not worthy to lick liberal mud off of Cheney’s shoes.
Obama is literally attempting to turn the nation into a socialist 3rd world state,,, and what are these Republicans doing??? When do we hear their cries?? When??? Oh,, when a statesman like Cheney speaks up!! Forget Barney Frank!! Forget nationalization! Forget the incompetence! No,, attack Cheney!! if only Cheney would just sit down and take it!!
I just want to scream!!!! He wasn’t surprised???? He wasn’t surprised?????!! Just what would it take to surprise this unnamed courageous congressman?????
How does any freedom loving soul that is still breathing respond to such a stupid moronic statement as that???
The country is being torched by the Democrat party and this brainiac is not surprised Cheney doesn’t like seeing the nation melt off the face of the earth!!!! This idiot is not surprised that Cheney feels the need to criticize a Fascist takeover of America!!!
Would someone somewhere run against that moron and get him the heck out of office so a real adult man or woman can take his place!!!!
JellyToast on March 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM
I’ve always liked Cheney; he is one of the few politicians who regularly gives one-word answers instead of some roundabout litany of gobblety-goo.
dugan on March 24, 2009 at 6:49 PM
He’s also the most afraid to speak with dissenting citizens.
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Probably the smartest man to serve in the executive branch in at least 100 years. The press hated him because he was quicker than they and did his job of protecting the country without fault. The press prayed daily, like their masters in the Democratic Party, for another 9/11 but it never came. Today’s Republican party, with its present attitude of groveling before the mob, now looting the treasury for personal power, has no chance in the next 20 years of regaining stature unless Obama and company produce some disaster like the many Cheney and Bush avoided in secret. The Republicans should recognize his greatness and take his example, ie do right and damn the press and the popular “will”.
mytralman on March 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Might have something to do with those “citizens” being nut bag liberals whose response is violence or shout downs towards those they disagree with…the day is coming when you and your liberal friends will push it too far and that day is closer than ever. You guys are begging for a civil war…not that I advocate civil war…just my analysis of the current state of the US.
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM
When he has no real substance to offer or any true willingness to talk with them, why should they?
If you want civil war, be prepared for the manufacturing-heavy North to win again.
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM
James Carville on
Carville nags Democrats to prove that they’re behind Obama all the way with big dollar contributions.
Oh yeah; Carville insists that his opponents are the party of no. Just for fun, send a donation to a conservative FEC and show just how far “no” grow$ against Obamanation.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Historically, that was the case. Today, no longer. Get real.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 7:07 PM
I said I’m not advocating anything…just giving an opinion on where this is going. It’s crazy. The division and anger are outa sight. This is about a culture change…do it incrementally or risk the violence that is sure to result from sudden “change”. There will be no winner except the already too powerful federal government.
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM
He does what all of them should do…tell them to F*** themselves!
SouthernGent on March 24, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Your reference to Cheney is ill founded and false. Again you are mistaken, having learned everything in retrograde inversion, stubbornly demanding the world conform to your backward truncated logic.
Muddling OBAMA is absolutely unable to speak without a teleprompter, and says whatever the prompter prompts eloquently, afraid to address anyone on anything without the prompter. It has always been Obama who avoids addressing the essence of any matter, AFRAID TO DEBATE Mark Levin on Constitutional Law for instance.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM
SouthernGent
One thing without a doubt, the angst fear factor in his detractors riles their anger and “hate” towards Cheney for being so succinct.
Ironically, they wish they were more like him and express their envy through “hate”. Who else could say f8ck off with such effect?
Would that all politicians talk plain as day like Cheney. It takes a truly brilliant mind to powerfully speak so well with absolute resolve in so few words.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM
I heard the entire Cheney interview on CNN, and was delighted to hear him speak up, as usual without mincing words, direct and to the point (in contrast to Obambi, who even with his teleprompter seems to maunder). He was right on one point after another.
It was especially important to have him criticize Obambi’s abdication of the Global War on Islamic Terror, and the danger that it will bring great harm upon the United States (even more harm than Axelrod’s and Ayres’s Marxist ambitions).
Contrary to the Republican weanies in the Congress, Dick Cheney provides exactly the kind of backbone they had better grow pretty quickly, if they don’t want the illegal immigrants, the welfare queens, and the Islamists to roll over them in 2010.
Ed, I’m a little disappointed to hear you caviling in the face of V-P Cheney’s vaunted ‘unpopularity’. That’s largely a liberal-media myth. Most conservatives, and anyone who values integrity, love him.
MrLynn on March 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado . In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington , DC , filled to capacity by many of America ‘s finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, “Mexifornia,” explaining how immigration – both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California . He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America
The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States . He said, “If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied , too rich, then let’s destroy America It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that ‘An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.’”
“Here is how they do it,” Lamm said:
“First, to destroy America , turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put itis way: ‘The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.’ Canada , Belgium , Malaysia , and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence . Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bre tons, Corsicans and Muslims.”
Lamm went on:
“Second, to destroy America , invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
“Third, we could make the United States an ‘Hispanic Quebec ‘ without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: ‘The apparent success of our own multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentriy and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.’ Lamm said, “I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I woul d replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to en sure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities.”
“Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school.”
“My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of ‘Victimology.’ I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority plation.”
“My sixth plan for America ‘s downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other – that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precet. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia , threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nu rtured political divisions. Greece fell. “E. Pluribus Unum” — From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the ‘pluribus’ instead of the ‘Unum,’ we will “Balkanize” America as surely as Kosovo.’
“Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits. Make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of ‘diversity.’ I would find a word s imilar to ‘heretic’ in the 16th century – that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobe’ halt discussion and debate.. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-cultum, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of ‘Victimology,’ I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America , it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.”
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, “Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis’s book ‘Mexifornia.’ His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America . If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don’t read that book.”
There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate ‘diversity.’ American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America Take note of California and other states. To date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell’s book “1984.” In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery, ” and “Ignorance is strength.”
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don’t get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.
Republicans want Dick Cheney to STFU and let them take the lead. In the meanwhile, Obama & Pelosi are wiping the floor with what’s left of capitalism, free markets, civilian freedom, and civilian liberty. We can’t wait for Republicans to figure things out folks, we must take action into our own hands. Obama’s approval ratings must drop like dead weights; the tea parties must become bigger and louder; Americans must fight the righteous fight. Organized protests at MSM buildings across this nation. If these ass wipes continue to provide cover for Obama & Pelsoi, while refusing to report anything that doesn’t fit their agenda, then they deserve to have thousands of people show up at their door step and get loud.
We simply can’t wait for Republicans to some how find their guts. At least Cheney has guts and love for his country.
Keemo on March 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM
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> Argentina
Jeffrey Kuhner , Washington Times. 2/21/09
The disastrous path on which America is currently embarked was tried in another country. A fact not well known is that Argentina , prior to World War II, was an economic powerhouse. Beginning in the 1880s and continuing through the 1920s and 1930s, it was regarded as one of the most prosperous and advanced nations in the world. Then Juan Peron and his wife Eva took control in the 1940s until a coup in 1955 ousted them from power.
Argentina had a strong industrial base, thriving agricultural exports, huge cattle ranches, and a broad and expanding middle class. Like America , it served as a magnet for immigrants from all over the world, especially Italians. Within 15 years under the Perons, Argentina , however, went from being one of the richest to one of the poorest countries. To date it has never fully recovered.
Upon coming to office, Peron, along with his popular beautiful wife, Eva, created a state characterized by lavish social spending, elaborate welfare programs, protectionism, confiscatory taxation, and runaway deficits. Juan Peron used class warfare rhetoric. He attacked big business, the banks, the private corporations, and the propertied class. He gave the labor unions power and made them pivotal allies of his regime. Then Peron expanded the bloated government bureaucracy to intervene in every aspect of business and life, which led to internal corruption.
Peron’s central socialist economic planning destroyed industrial productivity and growth. The world’s investment capital fled. Taxes, inflation, unemployment, and interest rates soared and the middle class was wiped out. Finally, an independent judiciary and media ceased to exist. Eva’s cult of supporters fostered a climate of violence and political enemies of the regime were exterminated. Argentina degenerated into the typical debt-ridden Latin American country that it still is today.
The failure of Argentina under Peron should serve as a warning to us. Socialism and a sky-rocketing debt can permanently impoverish even the wealthiest of nations and America is not immune from the laws of economics.
Obama is taking the first dangerous steps toward an American version of Peronism. His followers see him as a political messiah and a revolutionary change agent. He and the Democrats are plundering the country, using it as a vehicle to reward supporters and punish foes. They plan to confiscate wealth by taxing the rich and successful business class. Obama’s plan to do away with secret ballets will strengthen the labor unions. His wife, Michelle, is the Eva Peron of our time, a glamorous, chic, socialist fashion trend-setter who is beloved by the media.
Just remember, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Keemo on March 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE52N67F20090324
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With many U.S. newspapers struggling to survive, a Democratic senator on Tuesday introduced a bill to help them by allowing newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks.
“This may not be the optimal choice for some major newspapers or corporate media chains but it should be an option for many newspapers that are struggling to stay afloat,” said Senator Benjamin Cardin.
Our tax dollars going to Hamas is down right wrong.
Our tax dollars going towards a fabricated global warming tax scam is down right wrong.
Our tax dollars going to pay for the Democrat Parties mouth-propaganda piece, now that’s something that’s just plain beyond wrong.
I don’t know about any of you folks, but the rubber band is about to break. A man can only take so much.
Keemo on March 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Good luck trying to get anything new from Detroit when they’re working for your enemy and only your enemy, the North.
They didn’t have the resources nor capabilities that the US has.
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Bravo! Excellent post. Do you have links to the speeches by VDH and Gov. Lamm?
MrLynn on March 24, 2009 at 8:19 PM
I love Dick Cheney!!
Iwish to god he was in charge!!!
Winebabe on March 24, 2009 at 8:33 PM
The Rinos are upset with Cheney. This is what they do.
Mark was here on March 24, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Personally, I don’t think Dick Cheney should even waste his breath. The MSM will just run the usual propaganda against him and make him into a pinata for the left. If we’re less safe, let’s just hope Nancy Pelosi’s district is the one to take on the attacks of those poor bearded freedom fighters.
That being said, I’m just glad Dick was the VP after 9/11. Gore’s administration, if he had won, I think we’d all be learning Arabic at this time….
adamsmith on March 24, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Thank you Keemo, that was a post that scared me, but that’s what we need. I hope everybody reads it.
Maxx on March 24, 2009 at 8:49 PM
I concur.
Oh please! With all of the crapt about how BusHitler created the Katrina storm, how BusHitler was ignoring the Constitution, all of the B.S. about how Bush lied [along with Israel, France, the U.N. inspectors, ...] I would have to say it is about time Cheney spoke up.
We heard from the Socialist Liberals, they gave us the Socialist Terrorist [there is no other] and the Teleprompter, so let’s revise how much a disaster Duh Bama has been in less than 100 days.
DannoJyd on March 24, 2009 at 8:59 PM
MrLynn on March 24, 2009 at 8:19 PM
I’ll work on that MrLynn… Back at you following supper.
Keemo on March 24, 2009 at 9:05 PM
You mean STILL in charge? Surely you can’t believe that the human waste of skin George Bush was actually president?
I finally found one of the 17th percent who approved of Dick Vadar.
Monkei on March 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM
MrLynn:
Here is the link to the article I copied.
http://fpd.gsfc.nasa.gov/diversity/Dick_Lamm_former_Gov.pdf
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp
I’ll search for a u-tube following supper.
Keemo on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
When was the last time we heard Dick Cheney discussing the principles of modern conservatism? Advocating a smaller government? We should be careful to label all critics of Cheney as rino’s.
Upstater85 on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
That sweet ol’ man? Death Star Cheney is my hero!
I recommend Mr. Cheney respond to the GOP in the same manner as he responded to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate floor back in 2004: “Go eff yerself.”
locomotivebreath1901 on March 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM
sethstorm = complete dumbass.
Manufacturing has almost completely moved to the South or Red States due to Unions and confiscatory tax policy. And no matter what you see in the NYT or LAT, this country is majority Red State. How on earth do you figure the North is going to win again?
Sporty1946 on March 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I disagreed with many things they did but Bush and Cheney had the only pair of balls in the GOP.
lavell12 on March 24, 2009 at 9:42 PM
jwp1964 on March 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM
When he has no real substance to offer or any true willingness to talk with them, why should they?
If you want civil war, be prepared for the manufacturing-heavy North to win again.
sethstorm on March 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM
You have to be kidding me. Are you talking about your rust belt? How much manufacturing is still in the North?
Most of the military and alot of manufacturing has moved to the south Mr. Sethstorm.
I can generalize to. You see I get so tired of folks who live in the city and their projects slamming back a red bull they bought from their welfare check and taking a draw off of a blunt or a crack pipe, putting down hard working normal people of the South and West.
Yeah, we are all uneducated red necks that hate everyone who is not white and have sex with our sisters. You know Mr. Seth one day you might just get a job, but since everyone is fleeing your citys including manufacturers and business men, maybe not.
SGinNC on March 24, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I’ve always liked Cheney though he remains difficult for me to read. His action was to remain a loyal vice-president even when his honor might’ve been served by resigning from a feckless administration. Cheney put the nation’s interests ahead of his own and he remained to curb the clueless. Hats off to Cheney.
That dynastic creature gave his successor unnecessary support by his choice of words. He busies himself with a memoir and afflicts the world with a speech tour. If he blames Cheney for so much as the smallest thing, then I hope Cheney responds.
A man of few words, Mr. Cheney can write a two page pamphlet and demolish the nonsense for good.
Feedie on March 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Actually, I’m enjoying Cheney unleashed, and I am a 9/12 conservative.
PattyJ on March 24, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Exceptional post!
Red State State of Mind on March 24, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I second that RSSofM!
conmo on March 25, 2009 at 12:02 AM
When – when are the R’s gonna learn to speak up? Stop allowing the left and their mouthpieces (MSM) tell us how to speak or act? Defend the constitution and NOT back down. Bunch of damn little kids. Sorry for the rant. We just let them distract us at will.
conmo on March 25, 2009 at 12:09 AM
I went to the link on snopes. I’m having a very hard time believing that Dick Lamm (the ex-Colorado Governor Dick Lamm) would have made that speech. The Dick Lamm I grew up knowing as the governor of Colorado would have been singing the praises of all of those 6 points toward destruction. Did he have some sort of Damascus road experience in the past several years?
As a data point, Dick Lamm, before Daschle, made the statement that Americans have the obligation to die rather than seek extraordinary medical care for various illnesses.
AZfederalist on March 25, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Was going to mention that part about dying, but you nailed it. Here is Michelle Malkin’s entry to clear up any misconceptions.
Feedie on March 25, 2009 at 1:14 AM
MAYBE if the Republican leadership stopped thinking about appearances and put more attention into substance they’d abandon the fruitless and foolish pursuit of being respected and liked by the Left stuff like this would be irrelevant. Oh no, mustn’t criticize the Historic-One for fear of getting called nasty names by Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow. Get some spine, for Pete’s sake!!!
EasyEight on March 25, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Fine if he’s clearly speaking out of opinion, and that he’s not trying to rewrite history.
Not every factory is rusted down, and some of the Rust Belt bases are actually drawing people from deep Red States.
sethstorm on March 25, 2009 at 4:23 AM
If you want civil war, be prepared for the manufacturing-heavy North to win again.
sethstorm on March 24
Conservatism doesn’t stop at the Mason-Dixon line. We are everywhere and we still have most of the guns. Of course, you have the New York Times and Crissie Matthews so maybe we should surrender.
SKYFOX on March 25, 2009 at 6:40 AM
The criticism of Cheney by House Republicans does not make sense. There is no reason for anyone on the Republican side to be saying anything negative about Cheney.
I read in a different source that Congressman Peter King (R-NY) was supportive of Cheney. That should have been the response of all the House Republicans.
Phil Byler on March 25, 2009 at 6:55 AM
Wow, now the gop is throwing “Shooter” under the bus. Even funnier, people on this thread defending the war criminal. Thanks Dick, for coming out of your bunker and reminding Americans what a horrible 8 years you and your dummy put on this country. I wish Dick would come out every week, it would remind people why we voted for Obama. Dick Cheney, the gift that keeps on giving.
athensboy on March 25, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Mr. Athensboy, the last eight years were only terrible in you and your leftard party’s mind. Most of us Conservatives liked what Bush and his administration did. As a matter of fact I think that minus a few things it was damn right successful.
Of course I didn’t like Bush’s refusing to close the borders and protecting American jobs, expanding govt debt, standing up to accusations from the left and not helping his own party. But you see that is the difference between me and you. I deal with facts and have the courage to criticize the Republican party when I think they are off track. And you are a lap dog and a parrot for your new and improved socialist party. But don’t worry, truth eventually finds its way into the spot light and it will not be pretty.
SGinNC on March 25, 2009 at 7:58 AM
It’d be nice if VP Chenney would apologize to the Base for all the damage that Bush43, K. Rove and he did to “our” Party. And how wrong it was to grovel and pander to the groups that opposed and despised them while at the same time “dis’ing” the Base. DD
Darvin Dowdy on March 25, 2009 at 8:50 AM
well said
From my vantage, the Repubs aren’t leaving a vacuum by accident, they are speaking their minds, unfortunately
entagor on March 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM
MrLynn:
Here is the link to the article I copied.
http://fpd.gsfc.nasa.gov/diversity/Dick_Lamm_former_Gov.pdf
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp
I’ll search for a u-tube following supper.
Keemo on March 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Many thanks, Keemo, and thanks as well for the post on Argentina. We like to think that “It can’t happen here,” but with the feckless American electorate having delivered the government over to a cabal of statists and outright Marxists, we should heed the words of Benjamin Franklin, as he left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia:
MrLynn on March 25, 2009 at 10:48 AM
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