Thompson to replace Cheney???

[meatloaf]

Has anybody heard anything about this? I was just reading an article by Jeff Koopersmith over on American Politics and wondering if there was any weight to it.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Thompson has Lymphoma (form of cancer). I don't think so. n/t

[meatloaf]

3. His Lymphoma is non-hodgkins and very minor and not life threatening.

They're suggesting it's one of the reasons he's come forward with the info.


*corrected for spelling

[ShortnFiery]

5. The point is moot because Darth Cheney loves the power and will hold on to it until it's

wrest from his hands, hopefully during 2009. :shrug:

[meatloaf]

7. But Cheney's not stupid.

He can see the numbers as well as anyone. He's unelectable, but if he can put someone else in power who's sympathtetic to his agenda why not grease the skids?

[ShortnFiery]

12. Cheney is the ultimate *authoritarian* who is functioning as President.

Make no mistake about it, I'd bet my piddly paycheck on the fact that CHENEY WILL NOT LEAVE until the end of the term, if then. :scared:

[meatloaf]

14. On one hand I can see it, because he loves his power, but he knows he's not

taken seriously any more as V.P. or as a future threat. Considering how much Iraq has weakened and destabilized the Republican party, it would be a smart tactical move to put someone in a place that makes them a frontrunner especially if they support your agenda.

As evil and greedy as Cheny is, I could easily see him being behind such a move.

[DearAbby]

19. Cheney is a behind the scenes player

always has been, he will have the power, no matter who is sitting VP. Sort of like Rummy's desk still sitting in the Pentagon...Cheney will have a desk somewhere, and the power will still funnel into his door.

Yes, they may think about this, as a last resort. To at least ensure someone that is either in the 'club' or easily manipulated, in place to take the mantle.

[jobycom]

4. Which means he's in much better shape than Cheney. nt

[drm604]

2. Wait... did I miss something?

Cheney needs to be replaced?

[meatloaf]

6. Thompson is a fresh face for the neo-cons who doesn't carry all the baggage of the rest of the admin

It makes sense if you want to aggressively place him as a front runner for 2008 within the party and you know how discerning republicans are about their clebrity candidates.

[drm604]

8. You're not answering my question.

Did something happen to Cheney so that he needs to be replaced? Or is this speculation that he may quit or something?

[meatloaf]

10. The article seems to suggest it's more of a strategic move.

[drm604]

20. WHAT is more of a strategic move?

Is Cheney leaving for sure, or is it just speculation? Do you have a link to the article?

[meatloaf]

22. Put this in your browser...

http://www.apj.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=330&Itemid=2

[drm604]

23. Thanks! n/t

[ShortnFiery]

9. I realize that looks should not count and it's the character of the person, but I take umbrage

with your term *fresh face* :wtf: over :blush: :rofl: :blush:




Yeah, body and soul, IMO, *fresh* out of the crypt. :evilgrin:

[meatloaf]

11. LOL. Now cut that out, I'm trying not to laugh this off. I think he could be dangerous.

You know the public at large won't care, they'll just think hey I know that guy form law and order and the movies.

[ShortnFiery]

13. I respect your concern but I don't have "the feeling" that Fred Thompson is

the Conservatives' Answer.

However, this is not scientific and I have been wrong (predictions), in the past, i.e., but oh so rarely. :P :hi:

[meatloaf]

15. I hope I'm wrong. More specifically, I hope Koopersmith is wrong.

Remembering the lack of substance of Reagan and Schwarzenegger, it isn't hard to imagine Republicans turning to another celebrity. It might be their only hope in 08.



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[54anickel]

16. Phew! Thought this was about Tommy Thompson at first....n/t

[meatloaf]

18. Anybody without Cheney or the Admin's baggage worries me.

[EVDebs]

17. Thompson knows what Watergate was really about...

keeping the CIA/GOP $ flowing unimpeded. That is what the current Attorneygate scandal is all about too, which is why the Lam investigation had to be shut down, too many GOP and CIA insiders were going to be exposed. The fallout and motherofallscandals this would reveal could damage the GOP worse than the Watergate scandal did.

The 'national security' excuses you're going to be hearing are lame since this is all a DOMESTIC CIA and GOP money scheme gone bad. The blowback is well earned !

BTW, who were those mysterious 'Chilean investors' mentioned in the footnote in All The President's Men ? Has to be CIA $ coming into Nixon from that Mexican bank, eh ? Woodstein didn't go into the source of the money but Renata Adler did in her Dec 1976 Atlantic piece In Search of The Real Nixon Scandal. The shutdown of the Wright Patman investigation THEN is something Fred Thompson probably got wind of.

[melody]

21. Don't get the Freddie fans whipped up in a frenzy of hope lol

They already want to think he's the second coming.

Cheney give up power? Yeah, when the garage door opener he has for a heart finally packs up, and not a moment before.

[54anickel]

24. What is it with Repubs and actors? Ronnie and W acting as cowboys (though it

wasn't *'s vocation per se) now this macho corporate type. No wonder "reality TV" has taken off, seems a large number of people can't tell the difference anymore. Brings a new perspective to that old line, "No, but I once played one on TV".

[melody]

25. Looking for daddy

They keep trying to recast Daddy in some 1950s bullshit image.

Reagan, however, had the asset of no internet, a lack of information flow, and due to his
errant stupidity, a childlike innocence that led to few apparent "flaws" (at least as the
GOP interpret them).

Freddie, however, has no such movie star mythos (I doubt many people could even name him,
whereas Ronnie was a genuine movie star), has tons of baggage (the Barbie doll wife thirty
years his junior, several past relationships with major looming skeletons, and a few political
dealings that will make Tom Delay look like a choir boy in comparison), and is politically
very afar afield from the Daddy Seeking GOPhers.