Today's LA Times has a column talking about the groundswell to get Dick Cheney to run for President. Here are some points I would like to make in relation to the column:
1. I would love to see Dick Cheney run for President if just to watch him in debates a few more times. Nobody does debates like Dick Cheney.
2. Not a single mention is made of Dick Cheney's heart condition. Do you think the MSM would allow Cheney to keep his medical records private the way they allowed cancer survivor John Kerry to keep his records from the public? Kerry and Cheney are about the same age by the way. How can this "draft Cheney" column be serious without a mention of Cheney's health?
3. Cheney has repeatedly said flat out that he has no desire to run for President. I for one believe him. If he did decide to run then that pledge would hang around his neck like the "read my lips - no new taxes" pledge that did in George H W Bush.
4. Dick Cheney would be the greatest thing to happen for the Democrats in terms of fundraising. He is already the Left's big boogeyman. Him running for President would fill the coffers for the Democrats with donations from people who have nightmares about Haliburton and big oil. To me the reason behind this whole column today in the openly biased LA Times is to raise this very specter. Cheney is a polarizing figure and polarization is good for business for biased MSM organs like the LA Times.
George Bush has been re-elected so the steam has run out of the "anybody but Bush" bandwagon since that horse has already left the barn. A new meme has to be found to replace it and to get people excited (and worried so they buy newspapers). Condi Rice won't work because that potentially could alienate women and blacks. No other Republican has the name recognition to get the masses excited - so Cheney is almost it by default.
The hard Left is begging for a Cheney '08 campaign but they should be careful what they ask for.
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