Jon Meacham (TOOL): Why Cheney Should Run

[babylonsister]

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Why Cheney Should Run


Jon Meacham: "I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country. (The sound you just heard in the background was liberal readers spitting out their lattes.)"

"Why? Because Cheney is a man of conviction, has a record on which he can be judged, and whatever the result, there could be no ambiguity about the will of the people."

A new Draft Cheney website is trying to convince the former vice president to run.

[Taverner]

1. Vader/Hitler 2012!!!!

Because simply isn't enough evil in the world!

[rateyes]

2. We should make him run

to his jail cell. Traitorous bastard.

[bigtree]

3. the 'will' of the people was solidly against the creep when he was in office

His 'conviction' there was to lie, repeatedly and often . . . judge that, Meacham.

[Chipper Chat]

4. Cheney / Diebold

A winning team.

[Cassandra]

5. Jon Meacham (TOOL)...

because shilling for the Catholic Church has become a bit embarrassing once again.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. I agree with one thing.

If Cheney ones there will be "no ambiguity about the will of the people."

[blogslut]

7. Yes. Please run, Mr. Dick!

And choose your daughter as your running mate!

That would be awesome!

[Me.]

8. Dear Lord

Meacham finally shows his true colors

[babylonsister]

9. My first thought, too. I always suspected, but there it is. nt

[BarbaRosa]

10. "Because Cheney is a man of conviction"

If only we could get a conviction...

[EFerrari]

11. Jon Meacham, no tool, is subtle. Check it out:

"Why? Because Cheney is a man of conviction, has a record on which he can be judged, and whatever the result, there could be no ambiguity about the will of the people."

I read it, iow, "a Cheney run will show for once and for all that America doesn't want him or anything he stands for". YMMV

[babylonsister]

13. I think even the suggestion darth should run is beyond my

comprehension, so the rest didn't matter. He could have been insinuating that it would be futile, but I couldn't get past the suggestion.

[EFerrari]

14. Meacham overthinks everything like I do.

so. LOL

[EFerrari]

12. babylonsister, I'm so sorry if I killed your thread.

:(

If you check out what Meacham puts out in Newsweek, I think you'd be surprised. He did a lovely tribute to Teddy and he's been on CSPAN talking about a number of Dem leaders in a more positive way than many Dems. Having said that, he is an old school Republican, not one of these new fangled alternate reality PR whores, afaik.

And now, I'll go quietly . . .

[babylonsister]

15. Ha! No problem, it doesn't matter. I find I like him

'sometimes', but not always, and not just on this issue. During the primaries I recall him saying many things I fervently disagreed with.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. I think it's a clear statement on the state of today's GOP that anyone is even seriously suggesting

dragging that dude out of retirement.

Guess Sanford, Palin, Jindal, etc. etc. just aren't cutting it, huh?

Ya think? :shrug: