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Tales From The Dick Side

Tales From The Dick Side

America's Zombie Begins His Creep to the Oval Office

call me psychic.  or psychotic.  or both.

wayyyyyy back in 2005, i began telling people i was positive dick cheney would run for president.  my basis for that prediction was three-fold:

a. he said he wouldn't.

b. in his mind, nobody else was nearly as capable or even willing to shore up the bush-cheney administration's legacy.

regarding point a, one need only look back to recall how he wound up on the ticket with dubbya.  after declaring he was not going to seek the office of vice-president, he was tasked with selecting bush's running mate and, in that capacity, required all prospects to sign waivers permitting cheney full access to the entirety of their personal records.  when no one made the cut, bush chose cheney who refused to participate in the vetting process he himself had imposed on all the others.

point b was very clearly validated on 5/21/08.

oh hell, i almost forgot the third point.

c. how else will scooter libby get that pardon he was promised?

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Reply #26 Top

The way to 'broaden the appeal' of the party is not to become Democrats but to stand for a point of view, justify and defend it and make the case. 

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No, that's exactly how you LIMIT the appeal of the party.

It does matter which point of view the party choose and currently they are choosing a stupid point of view with very little appeal to most.

 

Reply #27 Top

Then we agree to disagree.  No point in election for simply election's sake.  Unless you're in it for the money.

Reply #28 Top

Her inexperience was not what scared people off.
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It was my only concern about her, anything else I either liked or was irrelevant to me. I wasn't concerned about her being a woman, a mother, a gun owner, or some of the other issues her opposition brought up. I knew the left was stoking a religious fear aspect that just was not true. Some fell for it though.

Republican voters do not usually think that the US is a racist country.
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Very true, but apparently they didn't like the left suggesting it over and over, and it intimidated some.

Listen to Powell? What has he ever said? Did he make his concerns known? Did he try he make his position known to the GOP in advance. I know he had some issues with the Bush administration, but the the first thing I hear out of his mouth was "I support Obama". Sorry, I don't think jumping ship fixes anything. If he couldn't use his influence to fix his perceived problems, he doesn't warrant a voice now. Had he made some effort and decided due to irreconcilable, he could have walked away and retained my full respect for him.

Of course one must ask what conservative values does this man have to support perhaps the most liberal presidential candidate in history? Lots of black Republicans abandoned their political principals and voted for Obama, for no other apparent reason than race. Perhaps Powell did the same. If that is the case, the GOP is much better off without him as race should never trump your deepest beliefs.

And he would have had my vote in 96 as well.

Reply #29 Top

Listen to Powell? What has he ever said? Did he make his concerns known? Did he try he make his position known to the GOP in advance.

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I remember him criticising certain Republican positions as early as 2000 before George Bush was elected.

But then I still had television back then.

Reply #31 Top

Quoting Infidel, reply 5
http://www.wikiality.com/Dick_Cheney
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Good stuff.  I like Colbert.

Reply #32 Top

jeez, i gotta start payin more attention to my own posts.  i thought this one too had sunk into the morass without comment.

 

listening to cheney would be sorta like listening to churchill bullying poland's government in exile into accomodating stalin's puppets, demanding they help maintain the alliance long enough to beat hitler--horribly ironic considering britain launched its war to preserve poland's sovereignity--with one huge exception: churchill may have ultimately done as much good as harm