What is Dick Cheney's Real Agenda?

The liberals despised him when he was in office. When he had heart problems early in the first Bush term, many wondered if he would live much longer, much less complete the full 8 years. Many openly wished death upon him. He still lives.

Now, not only has Darth Vader not ridden off into the sunset, he is the only republican who is openly unapologetic about Bush policies and willing to take on Obama straight up and at every turn:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aw9i42HdcJfk&refer=worldwide

“When an entire population is targeted by a terror network, nothing is more consistent with American values than to stop them,” he said. He would make those decisions again “without hesitation,” he said.

“Our government prevented attacks and saved lives,” Cheney said at AEI, where his wife, Lynne, is a senior fellow. “Only detainees of the highest intelligence value were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques.”

This leads me to ask this perilous question:

Will liberal nightmares become true? Is Dick Cheney planning to run for POTUS in 2012?

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/96719/Dick_Cheney_2012

 

What??? :shock:

Nooooooo!!!!!

 

I was really hoping for a Bobby Jindal to run in 2012

 

Cheney wouldn't get past Iowa in 2012 if he ran for POTUS.

The "Last Lecture" guy keels over young and leaves millions of admirers behind but Cheney is still sneering and talking bullshit 5 heart attacks later. Defending policies the American people rebuked. Fuck that guy.

 

Please he can't even give one speech (State of the Union rebuttal). That he's actually considered a star in the GOP shows how low they've sunk

 

It think he would probably do well in the republican primary in Iowa.

 

What did Obama achieve compared to Jindal who ran a state? As far messing up on a speech maybe its time we pick someone who has substance instead of style. Obama is a preformer, instead of fixing the economy he keeps blaming Bush. Trying to get revenge on Bush will get us nowhere. Just get the job done.

 

Unfortunately across-the-aisle appeal is needed to win, and your boy like most Republicans right now doesn't have it.

 

LOL Jindal is barely running his state. He said he'd turn down his state's stimulus money to protest Obama but ended up only turning down 2% of it, ha ha.

Bush deserves blame by the way. He had eight years to destroy the economy, Obama by all rights should have that long to help fix it.

Oh by the way OBAMA IS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT, AND HE WON ACROSS THE BOARD, EVEN FORMERLY RED STATES. THAT'S WHAT HE ACHIEVED.

 

How many generations have east Indians been in America? They have only been here like five or six decades and they going to take the white house? How long have blks been waiting for this moment, hmm... like > 400 yrs.

 

LOL Jindal just sucks, period, regardless of ethnicity. No real national appeal, especially against a killer speaker like Obama. No real solutions or fresh concepts, just the tired old Reagan tax cut/"government is the enemy" mantra. Imagine that one rebuttal stretched out over a whole election cycle. Jindal would get creamed right out the gate.

 

Dick Cheney has a 25% approval rating and will forever carry the stink of the Bush administration. If he wants to piss away millions of dollars running for the presidency, be my guest.

 

How old is Cheney? Isn't he like 68 with 5 heart attacks. I don't think he is going to run. If he does, the stress of the campaign might shorten the few years that left in him.


The GOP potentials probably are:

That hick from Lousiana, Palin, Romney, Bloomberg, South Carolina governor, Tommy Thompson, Thompson the actor, ??Huckbee, Brownback, Rudy, Bush Junior.

 

Jindal is a reformer in a formerly corrupt state. He got the folks out during Hurricane Gustav. he is a leader.

So let me ask you high taxes are good for business?

 

Cheney finally being told to shut the fuck up from within the GOP.

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Two Bush-era officials reject Cheney's security stance

by Dan De Luce

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Two top Bush-era officials on Friday rejected ex-vice president Dick Cheney's scathing criticism of US President Barack Obama, saying the country's national security was not in jeopardy.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in the same post under former president George W. Bush, and Tom Ridge, the former head of homeland security, both voiced disagreement with Cheney a day after he attacked Obama's performance as the new commander-in-chief.
Gates said in an interview that opponents of Obama's decision to close the "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo were engaging in "fear-mongering," a reference to Cheney's stance on the issue.
Defending the president's decision to shut the detention center at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Gates said the prison was damaging America's image and served as a propaganda tool for Al-Qaeda.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090522/pl_afp/usjusticeattacksguantanamomilitary

 

I'll bet that the republicans would nominate Sarah the MILF to be the VP (again), and the wild card pick for secretary of state would more than likely be "Joe the plumber".:smt043

The republican party is like the Detroit Lions nowadays.:smt042

 

I think it is more likely that she will be a candidate for POTUS. I would like to see that.

 

Now you're just trying to bait the liberals. I'd vote for her as PTA president, but that's about it.

 

Back to Darth Vader: here's what he recently had to say about Colin Powell:

<snip>
Cheney dryly commented: "I didn't know he was still a Republican."

Powell's turn will come this weekend. He is scheduled to appear on CBS's "Face the Nation" tomorrow and has told associates that he plans to answer his critics. Whether he will make an announcement about his party affiliation is unclear. <end>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...5/22/AR2009052203555.html?hpid=topnews&sub=AR

Is Powell about to announce that he is now an Independent or Democrat?
Will the perception be that Dick Cheney had a role in showing him the door?

This will be interesting indeed...

 

I'd absolutely love it if Colin went Dem like Specter did. I'd welcome him with open arms. Further cementing the Republican Party as the racist and intolerant party they are. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Colin was the only Bush administration voice with any credibility. Now look at how they treat him.