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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It is hard for me to understand why anyone wants the adults to shut up. The MSM puts on all the dolts and folks that should have left the scene a long time ago both politicians and pundits. These folks have nothing intelligent to say but for the most part put down conservatives and promote liberals. Gergen, Beckel, Gore, Carter, Clinton, Cokie, Donaldson, Brokaw, Brazille, and many others, all people that have nothing to say anymore and most of them were always nothing more the mouthpieces for liberal ideology and got rich spouting out the party line. There greatest skill was looking at a piece of garbage and telling you it was the gold standard of excellence.
When Vice President Cheney is interviewed he says things the left are incapable of answering in any intelligent manner so they try to demean anyone who might listen to him or approve of him. Typical liberal Alinsky tactics and the Republicans cower and back off the real issues and ideas and disavow their man.
rsl775 on March 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM
I’d much prefer to have Megan McCain ZIP IT than Dick Cheney, but that’s just me.
I certainly don’t want a big-boned, shrill-voiced RINO hi-jacking my conservative views and replacing them with her father’s “reach across the aisle” BS that has us where we are – scr*wed!!!
Sweet_Thang on March 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM
The fact that most “Republicans” refuse to wage an all out war against the liberals is the problem.
Same goes for the garbage in Washington. Watch and see, I’ve been right about most the crap going on let’s see if I can call this one too. Obama or one of the legislative bodies will remove term limits, Obama will formulate a secret police as promised on Whitehouse.gov and obliterate the opposition.
The Republican party is now useless to us. They are our enemies and have chosen to side with liberals. Get used to considering anyone with the Republican brand as an enemy.
leetpriest on March 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM
How about this. Instead of trying to persuade the intellectually lazy by floating popular people out there, which has proven to this point to be an epic fail, why don’t we find someone (anyone) who will tell the truth? Just sayin’, if it’s the truth, the right people will hear it. The rest aren’t going to change anyway.
samuelrylander on March 24, 2009 at 12:24 PM
I love Cheney. He is a good man and says how it is. I believe he is right. Look at the all Muslim Town in NY. The owner of the town or founder should I say. Is a known Terrorist. Screw Political correctness. Cheney is right and I wonder what State will be hit first? I pray to God it doesn’t happen, but look around and see some of the crazy violence that is going on. And remember how the Man Child and his TOTUS machine laughed at the American People on National TV. Rino’s need to go!
sheebe on March 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Weimar Republicans 85 voted with Democrats. Why should voters give money to them, when they could give their money to Democrats and get a cool Obama bumper sticker?
The 85 Weimar Republicans are blaming Cheney???? They even sound like Democrats now.
Steele’s Weimar Republicans suck, they will lose BIG.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/24/the-senate-shows-a-little-sense-confiscatory-republicans-show-no-shame/
Angry Dumbo on March 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM
All RINOs. They need the BOOT!!!
dogsoldier on March 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM
The funny thing is that if McCain had put aside his ego in 2004 or 2000 and been Bush’s VP, his election chances in 2008 would have probably been better. Not saying he would have won, but he wouldn’t have lost by so much.
Speedwagon82 on March 24, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Amen! They are truly responsible for deserting the base and leaving us at the mercy of the socialists.
Christian Conservative on March 24, 2009 at 12:29 PM
As a matter of fact, it’s NOT just you. He may be a neocon, but Cheney’s one of the smartest Republicans on the talking-head circuit to date.
manwithblackhat on March 24, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Cheney/Palin 2012
It is still O.K. to dream isn’t it?
trs on March 24, 2009 at 12:32 PM
There’s nothing wrong with being a Neo-Con.
Most people who use this word as term of approbation usually don’t even know what it means.
Do you?
Jenfidel on March 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Yeah. But don’t go all Hopey Changey on us, OK? :-)
coldwarrior on March 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM
And how do you do that without defending your policy like Cheney is here?
Skywise on March 24, 2009 at 12:34 PM
More Cheney!
Chaz on March 24, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Brought to you by Steele’s Soros Funded New Republican Party.
The New Republicans attacking Cheney (including Mark Kirk) were recently called “main street” republicans (part of something called the Main Street Republican partnership) and were funded in part by George Soros. It is unlikely that Soros has ceased funding Republican candidates and liberal activists can have a particularly corrupting influence over primaries. It should be a priority of the RNC to work with state party leaders to close primaries before 2010, 2012.
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/11/28/exposing-the-main-street-republicans/
As for VP Cheney, liberals hate him because he mopped the floor in the VP debates and made the case for President Bush better than he could make the case for himself. We need more principled Cheneys and fewer cafeteria conservatives leading the Republican Party. Liberals know a move to the center would destroy the Republican Party by further alienating a base that is already halfway out the door. Promoting a big tent Republican party has been and remains part of the Soros strategy.
Angry Dumbo on March 24, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Ah yes . . . the congressional Republicans are doing such a good job of rebuilding the Party.
rplat on March 24, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I’m glad Dick Cheney is speaking out, he’s been muzzled way too long and he deserves the right to correct the record. I think the media is afraid that people are going to listen to Cheney and compare him to Biden thus realizing what a complete dolt Biden really is.
peg on March 24, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Bush and Cheney caught a drubbing from the MSM over the Feds’ handling of the Katrina “crisis”.
Here’s legwarmers-wearing Frank Rich, one of the NYT’s uber-shills for the Obummer administration on their “Katrina moment”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html?em
Obamunism: enslaving our future generations, $1 trillion at a time.
Sweet_Thang on March 24, 2009 at 12:46 PM
It wasn’t really his health problems that kept him out in 1996 and 2000.
myrenovations on March 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Carter, Clinton, Gore, et. al., can spout off all they want, and make millions doing it.
Yeah, that double standard never gets old.
macummings on March 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM
I am so fucking tired of these asinine attempts from some people in the party to silence others. It is useless. People will speak their mind and they should, period. The hard core right-wingers (like me) and even the pansy ass moderates should talk, nothing wrong with it.
echosyst on March 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Weimar Republicans hate Cheney because he says what he means and means what he says. You may not like him, but you know where he stands.
When he says F- off, it isn’t for show and he isn’t expecting a slap on the back for validation.
The USA under the Obama Administration is betraying our allies and threatening our military alliances because the word of the Administration is worthless.
Poland and the Czechs are figuring this out.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=322700198494921
China wants a global currency to replace the dollar. They have figured it out.
Angry Dumbo on March 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM
They’d better be careful what they wish for. If the U.S. gets hit by terrorists again in the next few years, people will remember what Cheney said about Obama’s foolish policies making us less safe. They won’t just remember that Cheney said it, they’ll realize how right he was.
AZCoyote on March 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Molly K. Hooper, The Hill, writes a political muckraking effort to oust Cheney in order to substantiate her own bias. She goes door to door with her prefabricated question that any who answer must conform their response, whether they do or she does for them, as any pollster does.
How does she finish?
Let’s address Obama’s faulty perception that lacks substance. AS IF Cheney led a so-called Republican notion that cannot reconcile our Constitution with our national-security interests. AGAIN, it is the convoluted Obama nonsense to project his own faults as his opponent’s; ERROR.
As per Duncan, great man. He say’s he didn’t get Cheney. Between the two Republicans, I side with Duncan who is more conservative on Constitutional application than Cheney, but who does not deny Cheney’s voice now. Like Rep. McCotter, (R-Mich), reflects, the Republican consensus now is that what matters are deeds, not words. Since what’s past is past, let’s deal with the present given Obama misguiding America.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Amen.
Conservative_SAHM on March 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM
If there is a voter out there who believes in the things that the GOP is supposed to represent and likes the proposed GOP policies and who likes the GOP candidate running in their district, but will not vote for the GOP candidate because of Cheney or Rush or Bachman or Palin… well then, we can write them off. We should not concern ourselves with that kind of voter.
However, I do not think it can possibly hurt to have a wide variety of GOP/conservative voices in the public arena, sharing our ideas. If someone is going to be swayed by GOP ideas/policies, it is good that we can reach that person with a whole slew of good men and women.
Palin will appeal to some on-the-fence voters. Rush will appeal to some. Cheney will appeal to some. Cantor will appeal to some. Pawlenty will appeal to some. Jindal will appeal to some. But we need all of those voices speaking to real principles and real policies.
myrenovations on March 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Go Dick. Voters can’t make an informed decision withoiut the facts, and the current cadre of Republicans are milqtoast.;
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:03 PM
He is just filling a void left by the elected so called leaders of the GOP. If they where more effective Cheny would be a side note. Hell, even Susan Estridge is opining if the GOP was that of Regan or Gengrich the Dems would be against the ropes with the recent events. But nooooo, we get 85 house members voting the the dems to TAX 90%. They have yet to learn their lesson to let principals guid their actions.
lwssdd on March 24, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Obama is not only dangerous for the USA he’s dangerous for our allies.
Conservative_SAHM on March 24, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Silence of the dick.
Let him speak, this is a free country.
getalife on March 24, 2009 at 1:06 PM
if no man believed in glory, which is my realm, then I should vanish for all eternity.
tomas on March 24, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Te democratic party’s current Blitzkrieg attack against the US Constitution is a gravely serious matter. As far as I can tell, the Republicans are floundering and flailing and are totally uneffective in stemming this profoundly dangerous tide.
It may be time for a new constitutional political party to stand firm on behalf of the founding fathers and the greater American people.
I bet George Washington is spinning in his grave.
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Agreed. This is a huge problem. What value is NATO membership if the U.S. will not stand by Poland and the Czech Republic?
The Obama Administration is not content with destroying America as an ecomomic power, but wants to destroy our ability to project military power as well. Both come down to trust. The world may love Obama (I doubt it), but they sure don’t trust him.
Angry Dumbo on March 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM
CHENEY. ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT. NOTHING LESS WILL DO.
Ghoul aid on March 24, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Dick Cheney is Cassandra.
Tantor on March 24, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Cheney and Bush were utter failures and have destroyed the Republican Party. Good riddance to them.
MedSchoolCatholic on March 24, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Yes..Cheney 24/7…….
dec5 on March 24, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Obama is right to look at education, but throwing more money at it is foolish , wastefull, and in-effective.
Better results can be achieved with a change in attitude and responsibility. Urban blacks are notoriously bad when it comes to acedemic achievement. All the money in the world won’t help. Only a drastic change in the mentality of the inner city black culture will work.
Welfare destroys personal responsibility, and grows more and more dead head citizens that live and grow to slop in the public trough. Why don’t these democratic bleeding hearts see that? Welfare is cruel and shamefull.
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:17 PM
And Cassandra was right.
myrenovations on March 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM
I like what The VP has to say. I think the Republicans are a bunch of pussies.
revolution on March 24, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Dick Cheney is doing what Republicans SHOULD be doing.
Its really very simple, if congressional Republicans were doing their job, then Cheney wouldn’t have to!
American Elephant on March 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM
If the Republicans are trying to rebrand themselves without espousing the conservative principles that Cheney articulates well, then I may have to leave the Republican party.
Cheney puts the Obama administration on the defensive, where they should be.
Cheney is an adult, an articulate, seasoned patriot whose values are in the best interest of this nation.
An immature media painted Cheney in an unsavory light. They built the narrative that they are unwilling to give up. If squishy Republicans cannot rally around Cheney, then they have ceded the playing field to the leftists in government and the media. Game over.
onlineanalyst on March 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM
It’s about time to see someone with an R behind their name stand up and show some testicular fortitude.
It beats Meghan McCain standing up as a ‘republican’ and saying she ‘supports the president’, ie, she supports sending this country into a socialistic tailspin.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Obama is right to look at our dependence of foreign oil. But cap and trade just raises prices on everyone-which in turn chokes money making activities that require energy.
He should attack the problem by expanding American oil and gas production in the current economy, and buy the time to work the science for new methods.
His current approach is a double downer. The government should help prime the pump, not release the suction and cause great pain on American businesses and consumers.
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:23 PM
No….Bush and Cheney kept this country save for 7 years
and oversaw 7 years of growth until the Libs took over Congress.
Bush and Cheney will be vindicated…and be up their
with Abe Lincoln….
dec5 on March 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM
I think Obama is a real smart guy, but being smart and being a good leader are two different things. They say Jimmy Carter was a smart guy, but he was a “crazy train” wreck.
Obama needs to focus on cleaning up the “welfare class”, which is a huge drag on our economy. Sometimes a kick in the butt is a better motivator than recieving a free check for staying where you are and keep doing what you are doing.
The Katrina mess would not have been such a disaster if the millions of “victims” weren’t so mentally helpless.
You can thank New Orleans welfare for the mental helplessness.
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM
I’m surprised Cheney has avoided the racist tag, you know its coming. The democrats and their whores in the media have made any criticism of Obama off limits, Juan McLame fell for it and now the rest of the RINO’s are marching along in lock step. Political correctness coupled with white guilt have paved the way for the tyranny of any minority group to gut the will of the majority, be it race, sex, religion, speech and soon thought. This insanity threatens the very fabric of our society and will destroy this country from within. Lets not forget the words of a celebrity Obama supporter “its time to paint the Whitehouse black”
dmann on March 24, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Give’en Hell Cheney!
Take these spineless assholes quail hunting and use production #9 pellet #OO Buckshot military load.
try again later on March 24, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Bush and Cheney nearly destroyed the GOP with their neoconservative BS and you all want to keep praising Cheney? WTF? Are you sock puppets?
popularpeoplesfront on March 24, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Ed, did GWB use those words, that he owed Obama his silence?
If so, that’s a Bushism. More likely, Bush referenced his respect for the office and its incumbent, that Bush would not intrude with unwelcome advice, at least not too soon.
No one OWES Obama the presidential right to dismiss the Constitution or destabilize our constitutional government made of three equally balanced branches which can not impose upon the others.
Newsflash for Obama: learn your Constitutional obligations and perform your duties of office correctly. Get off your damned high horse trampling our liberties!
Put Obama the fraudulent professor of Constitutional law who embodies the definition of coward up against Mark Levin in debate.
We know who our Republican leaders are by deeds that match words. We want our elected officials to start listening to our voices that are broadcast daily on conservative talk radio!
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM
The democrats want desperately to lower the common denominator of the electorate in the area of self reliance because sheep are easier to heard than cats.
On the one hand, they want free college tuition, but at the same time lower the acedemic standard so they can attract and brainwash weak minds. They also promote the expansion of dependent inner city minorities that can’t get off government life support. Paying crack mothers more and more with each child has borne much fruit as far as expanding the deadhead classes. Welcoming millions of illiterate peasants from Latin American countries is intended to lower the common denominator for electorate as well.
Democrats look forward to the day that self reliant individuals are extinct, and the glassy eyed gullable sheep are the majority.
What a country that will be. Just look at Haiti or El Salvador if you want to get an idea. All the innovators and creators are gone, only the livestock are left.
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM
LOL in absolute ridicule at the sloth’s vain attempt to illuminate from the bottomless pit of Socialism’s black hole.
Shine on = burn out
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Since no one wants to be a sock puppet, do us all a favor and explain what “neoconservative BS” means. It’s clearly something we’re supposed to oppose, but I must have missed the memo on that one.
I am heartened that a commenter with a Marxian handle like “popularpeoplesfront” is so concerned about the well-being of the GOP, though.
Mr. D on March 24, 2009 at 1:51 PM
I think Bush said that Obama deserves his silence.
myrenovations on March 24, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Now that my friend, is a tag team that would deliver!
CHENEY/PALIN 2012!!!
christene on March 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Hey lame Republicans in the House…how about you get lost! We could use more Cheney, not less. My approval of President Bush is in the teens, but Cheney is the man of the hour.
Conservative Voice on March 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Ha ha ha ha. Who is the sock puppet? I think it is you. I can’t think of any bad ideas Cheney had.
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Ill bet this guy can’t hunt, can’t fish, gets lost in the woods, and would stave in a corn field.
just the way the democrats like em.
saiga on March 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Drudge-”OBAMA SEEKS EXPANDED POWER TO SEIZE FIRMS”
Take Cheney’s guns,…I dare ya,..I DOUBLE DOG dare ya!!
christene on March 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM
dmann
Debase the treachery. Expose the lie. Do not conform to the opponent’s one sided demands that require your extinction.
PC IS DEAD. It ate itself all gone. Its remains are eyes bigger than stomachs. Either offer yourself as a sacrifice to Baal PC or confound it with truth.
“Words, just words” DO have legitimate definitions. Either retain our language in urtext or submit to newspeak revisionism.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I think Mr. Cheney has more CHUTZPAH than the metro-sexual wanna-be’s that have infested the GOP.
My son will be 18 in 2012.
Please Sir-KEEP TALKIN’
annoyinglittletwerp on March 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM
+1
I triple dog dare ya!!!
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM
I think both sides are playing it right. I think it is best to let someone like Cheney with low approval to attack Obama and for the GOP to appear that they disagree. I don’t know if they are playing politics and actually agree with Cheney or that they are really pussies.
lavell12 on March 24, 2009 at 2:07 PM
I miss Darth Cheney and his Sith Death Squads. You knew when Lord Cheney was around the bad guys got theirs.
Now with Mr. Gaffetastique the bad guys are coming to get us.
Iblis on March 24, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Brain dead.
Obama, the imposition, is the Socialists’ wishful version of Charlie Gordon whose life will ultimately culminate in a national tragedy of ultimate proportion, leaving us with less than we began, aka nothing but sadness and the inability to function or think.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Cheney is that stern old grandfather who can put a youngster on his knee and give him the paddling he deserves but never gets from his parents.
Watch the recent CNN interview again. Then watch the VP debates from 2000 and 2004. This guy can really lay it down on the opposition.
Contrast Cheney’s superb intellect and policy grasp with the squishy nature of most GOP pols–who happen to play the role of “parent” in my analogy above. No comparison there.
Frankly, the Left has grown accustomed to the fact that the GOP cannot stomach a good PR battle. They know that once they demonize a prominent figure on the right (be it Bush, Cheney, Newt, Rush, Justices Scalia and Thomas, or what have you), that person will be disowned by the mainstream Republican Party. In this environment, you either live by the squish or you fall upon your principle like it’s a sword. What a country!
cackcon on March 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM
It’s bad journalism (potent socialism as propaganda) used to spawn a thread to catch what’s in the web. The intent is to direct our thoughts. The effect, though, stimulates the unintended reaction (THOUGHT PROCESS AS IDEA) that supports conservatism as a foundation and movement members.
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM
WHO DIED AND SAID THAT THE GOP MAY SPEAK ONLY FROM ONE PERSON?
maverick muse on March 24, 2009 at 2:23 PM
popularpeoplesfront on March 24, 2009 at 1:43 PM
You name says it all – you are the sockpuppet.
Queen0fCups on March 24, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Hey, Cheney! Stop leading! You’re setting a good example for the party of bipartisan wusses and timid weenies who all hope the socialist takeover of America succeeds.
whitetop on March 24, 2009 at 2:55 PM
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Compare ex-Vice President Dick Cheney and now Vice President (light) Joe Biden. Cheney speaks clearly and is consistent in his positions and thoughts. Biden just talks while he tries to think–remember his speech about how the U.S.A. caused Hizbollah to leave Lebanon. They control all areas South of the Litani River and will soon take over the country.
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The Left Wing Media (not the “MSM”) has conditioned the Amerikan Publik to respond like Pavlov’s dog experiment. At words like CHENEY, ROVE, BUSH, ENRON, GITMO, etc. rational thought goes out the window and the salivating starts!
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Ditto for the MESSIAH (PBUH)–if he breaks wind during a speech it is a new defining moment for our new U.S.S.A.–line up the drool buckets!
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Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn seem like real Americans–his wife has written some very good history education books for young children. And they support their lesbian daughter in her life–they do not run down other groups or people like the “liberals” do.
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I did not think Dick Cheney would make it through 8 years as V.P.–he has more stents in him than the average cardiac surgery operating room has in supply. His work on gun control needs some improvement though. I WOULD RATHER GO QUAIL HUNTING WITH CHENEY THAN SWIMMING WITH TEDDY KENNEDY!
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John Bibb
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rocketman on March 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM
We need people like Cheney to defeat the attempted coup d’état.
allrsn on March 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Instead of cowtowing, allowing the left to brand us and not defending ourselves during the last eight years, it is refreshing to hear some honesty come from our ex vice president. I still believe that the main reason that the Republicans got beaten so badly this election was due to three main causes. (1) Putting a Rino up to represent us (McCain).
(2) The President and the Republicans not going head to head with Democratic accusations. (Silence implies guilt) (3) Not upholding Conservative principles of smaller Govt and less spending.
I am also pissed that when Republicans have the Majority they just want to appease Democrats. But when the Democrats have the Majority, they will use their political clout to do whatever their wild eyed dreams lead them without fear of Republican disapproval.
SGinNC on March 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Dick helped preside over one of the most liberal Republican presidencies in history (on par with Nixon). He couldn’t even get a full pardon for Scooter.
Where is all that conservative influence they are worried sick over?
Valiant on March 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Cheney to GOP “Pull your HEAD OUT”
Grumpy Bear on March 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Sheep fear the herding dog…Cheney is a herder, his distractors are sheep.
right2bright on March 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Dick Cheyney is a man. The elected Republicans who are complaining about him are little girls. Eric Cantor, puhleeease!
ncjetsfan on March 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM
GOP Pull your HEAD OUT
Grumpy Bear on March 24, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Bush and Cheney nearly destroyed the GOP with their neoconservative BS and you all want to keep praising Cheney? WTF? Are you sock puppets?
popularpeoplesfront on March 24, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Pavlov’s dog was your Daddy right?
wtng2fish on March 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM
dick cheney made me feel safe. i knew that he would personally order anything to keep America from being attacked again. and not even blink.
kelley in virginia on March 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM
For the love of God, why is it that Republicans in DC always loose their grip when it comes to Bush and Cheney? I love Dick Cheney and he is the only adult there still in DC. He never lost his way as almost 100% of the Republicans in Congress seem to have done. He hasn’t changed his standards nor was blinded by the Democrats deviant behavior. He actually knows what they are doing. Why our side that lives inside the beltway can’t figure it out is dangerous and stupid. We are fighting for our lives out here and they can’t figure out what they believe. They want us to stand up for them and send them money, but are ready to throw Dick Cheney under the bus. All they have to do is insist that the Constitution be adhered to, but they think they have to “reinvent” themselves. After 60 days of Obama they can’t seem to grasp the danger of loosing our country to Socialism.
BetseyRoss on March 24, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Thank you Dick Cheney for 8 years of service as VP of the USA. 6 of which were good, 2 not so good. Too bad they kept you out of the press. You gave the beatdown on those who needed it.
ammon_of_cs on March 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM
One thing you can’t call Cheney is a “neocon.” He had no political transformation (“neo” = new) in his ideology. Cheney was never a liberal Democrat that had to be jolted into reality, and thus to conservatism. Only someone like Bill Bennett is properly labeled a neoconservative (by the original definition) because he was once a liberal. Bennett wouldn’t call himself that today, because of how that label is misunderstood, but he fits the original definition. Cheney does not fit the definition. Liberals use the term all the time, but as usual they have little understanding of what it means. The negative connotation gradually arose while describing conservatives who retained too much of their liberalism, and thus believed they could “do good” in the World. For conservatives, pursuing your own national interests comes before interfering in other nations to “do good.” If you can do both, that’s fine, but your own nation comes first.
RBMN on March 24, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Well said, rocketman (John Bibb) and SGinNC.
VP Cheney and John Bolton, for that matter, are men who see clearly, evaluate judiciously, and speak convincingly. I like those qualities in leaders.
Cheney is not going out of his way to gratuitously trash the Obama administration. He was asked questions in an interview, and he answered forthrightly, yet diplomatically, what his convictions are.
When I hear people sneer at Dick Cheney, I have observed that they repeat media-narrative talking points and cannot support their opposition with any facts. They tend to be rather adolescent in their understanding of the world.
onlineanalyst on March 24, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Friggin’ RINOs…still trying the ‘let’s be more like the Democrats’ thing, huh?
Dr. ZhivBlago on March 24, 2009 at 5:15 PM
The same “objective media” that made so much out of Cheney’s health issues happily gave a pass to their own heros’ refusal to release their own medical histories. Clinton never released his, Jean-Claude Kerri never released all of his, and neither did O’bama.
Can you say “double standard”?
Del Dolemonte on March 24, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Cheney to lame RINO Republicans: Go F*** Yourself!!
Maxx on March 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Impolitic. More like impolite. Love the updates on the GOP’S impending irrelevance.
chunderroad on March 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM
……… since no one else is, more power to him!
Mr. Vice President……….
………… you are missed!
Seven Percent Solution on March 24, 2009 at 5:29 PM
There is a Frum inspired orthodoxy out there that insists on muzzling traditional conservative views. We conservatives are the more productive, least dependent and most giving segment of the population. The unproductive, dependent segment seems to have the most votes, and Frum tells us to sound more appealing to the — frankly speaking — inept majority. Perhaps the John Galt / Atlas Shrugged strategy is best, let the inept screw up without our participation and hold firm to principle as the majority begins crawling back to the grown-ups.
Mark30339 on March 24, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Vice President = attack dog = suck it up, boot-licking Republicans.
Cheney is a better man than all of his critics combined with an extra helping of Clay Aiken.
BKennedy on March 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Hey Republicans – I have news for you. If YOU would sound more like Dick Cheney you wouldn’t be in the toilet like you are now. Dummies.
I propose that all Republicans in Congress have a mandatory physical examination to see if the male members still have balls. Let’s televise the results.
suzyk on March 24, 2009 at 5:48 PM
I have a man-crush on Dick Cheney. And I believe him to be right, and justified in pushing back against those who would distort his record without challenge.
If no current elected official has the stones to push back against the wingnuts of the Left (who are then parroted by the MSM), of course they shouldn’t be surprised if the former VP hits back and hits back hard.
I hope it does leave a mark on those morons.
itzWicks on March 24, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Cheney, however, owes Obama NOTHING. The left has portrayed Cheney as everything just short of the antiChrist; damn if I’d let it go, either. If the “moderate” wing of the Republican party doesn’t want him rockin’ their boat, maybe they’d better grab a set of oars, themselves.
uncivilized on March 24, 2009 at 5:52 PM
“Republicans to Cheney: Get Lost”
“Cheney to Republicans: Get Bent”
PappaMac on March 24, 2009 at 5:52 PM
FFHA: Fixed For Historical Accuracy.
BKennedy on March 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Cheney: Liberal diversion du jour.
franksalterego on March 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM
“Republicans to Cheney: Get Lost”
“Cheney to Republicans: GROW A PAIR”"
Old Hippie Vet on March 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM
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