Cheney: The GOP’s better off with Rush Limbaugh than Colin Powell
posted at 8:36 pm on May 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Greg Hengler at Townhall. It’s superficially surreal to watch a former VP side against his own Secretary of State, especially given Powell’s public approval rating vis-a-vis Limbaugh’s, but what’s Cheney supposed to say here realistically? That he thinks a guy who voted for Obama and has been known to muse that “Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less” is a superior spokesman for a conservative party? This is like asking a lefty blogger if the Democrats are better off with Keith Olbermann or McCain-lovin’ maverick Joe Lieberman. Sure, Liebs is the more impressive person, but which one’s closer to the “progressive” ideal?
Even so, the left loves this soundbite for the sweet, sweet identity politics it lets them play. As one of them put it to me today on Twitter, “Cheney prefers a fat white drug addict to an African-American war hero!” Of course, they themselves preferred a drug user to a war hero in last year’s election, for the quite logical reason that they thought his policies were better. Funny how that’s not so logical to them in Cheney’s case.
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Because the Left believes in the perfectibility of mankind–that the perfect human can exist under the right conditions; conditions which the Left and its friends will bring about once it has the power to control all material resources. And it does not matter how it and its friends acquire those resources. Logic doesn’t matter, reason doesn’t matter, consistency doesn’t matter, the rules don’t matter.
All the Left needs to do is to remove its enemies from in front of its goal and it will use any means necessary to do that. Thus can a Leftist spin positively an action committed by a friend and spin negatively the exact same action committed by a foe. Leftists have the end-game in mind–sometimes without even knowing it. But it’s always there and it is the only thins of import to them. And because of how feeble-minded the Left has made a good deal of the American public via public education, the Left will often get away with their double-standards.
BTW, ten years ago, I mentioned the book 1984 to a co-worker. He berated me for having an “elitist education.” (For the most part, I was educated in South Central Los Angeles public schools and read 1984 while in my 30s.) I asked him whether he knew what a library was.
It’s not just the education, it’s the indoctrination.
baldilocks on May 11, 2009 at 2:48 AM
That remark was why Cheney was a VP. *haha
AnninCA on May 11, 2009 at 2:54 AM
Maybe Obama will get lung cancer?
Frances on May 11, 2009 at 7:02 AM
Obama gets lung cancer — LOL.
The way Powell and Armitage played the media on Plame against Bush is unforgivable.
tarpon on May 11, 2009 at 7:38 AM
I’m more and more convinced this is pure self-interest and has nothing to do with the GOP. I really think Cheney is concerned, if not outright paranoid, about being prosecuted under the current administration. This is his way of trying to stay out front and rally the only support he’ll have, which is the GOP base. He’s attempting to make himself so “popular” the administration wouldn’t want the headache of taking him down.
sanguine4 on May 11, 2009 at 7:44 AM
sanguine4
Dick Cheney already knows he has our support. He doesn’t have to “rally” it, and it’s not his style anyway. Do you also believe the “suggestions” from the left on how the Republican Party can reform istself are also valid?
SKYFOX on May 11, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Every time Dick Cheney appears on TV, Democrats smile. Why? Because Cheney has about as much credibility as Nixon did.
starfleet_dude on May 11, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Really, guys…resist the urge to be a Twit.
James on May 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Methinks you give them the benefit of too much doubt, AP.
Or to put it more explicitly: their insinuation that Cheney’s preference is based on race, rather than policy, is pure projection.
Cylor on May 11, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Maybe Dick Cheney loves his country.
Kralizec on May 11, 2009 at 8:55 AM
MeThinks.
By drug user are you speaking about Obama who willingly admits using coke and weed. Yes, he did inhale. You libs are so brainwashed that facts scare you to death. The truth to a lib is not whether its true or not, but what they WANT to believe. Being a brainwashed lemming, I thought you would call Cheney a “racist” because the race card is burned into your psyche by your masters.
volsense on May 11, 2009 at 9:04 AM
In response to my great VP, Dick Cheney’s assertion: Duh. Of course we are.
Powell is a liberal Republican with no apparent goodwill toward the party and no discernable conservative philosophy. He is no more valuable to the GOP than the average independent swing voter.
Jaibones on May 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Thank you Mr. Cheney. I agree 100%.
SueM on May 11, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Powell is loyal to the hand that feeds him. Makes him a perfect democrat.
volsense on May 11, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Why should Republicans let the left make them chose between different parts of their support base? Naturally, since the republicans best chance to come back is on a platform of limited government, fiscal responsibility and defense of liberty and Colin Powell is less in tune with those principles than Limbaugh, Cheney would chose Rush; but why give in to this divisiveness spawned by the left for the benefit of the left.
Why doesn’t the media focus on the stark conflict in interests between blue collar labor unions and the environmentalists that threaten American manufacturing? Because they know it divides their party which is the Democrat party. For my part, I ask union members constantly how their leadership can sell them down the drain by making American Industry less competitive on energy and denying them access to raw materials within the United States. The United Mine Workers and the Atomic and Chemical workers union members are being grossly disserved by their leadership but Democratic politicians are never asked to chose between development and jobs versus environmentalist NIMBYism.
KW64 on May 11, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Good for Dick Cheney. I’m glad to see somebody from the GOP finally speak out. Cheney shouldn’t be the only voice. The GOP needs a huge choir of 800 pound gorillas to help him out.
byteshredder on May 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM
I’m jumping in here late, but it struck me when reading Ed’s post was that Pres. Bush, with his years of executive experience, attempted to find people who would serve well in the position that he placed them. That didn’t necessarily mean that they agreed with everything Bush did, but that they would follow his agenda. Kudos to Powell for his amazing service to this country (even if I don’t agree with all of his choices), and more kudos to Pres Bush for having executive experience and using it well (most of the time).
gobblemom on May 11, 2009 at 11:44 AM
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wade underhile on May 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM
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