Cheney for president? It’s on a lot of minds / Chait [View All]

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Posted on Thu, Mar. 31, 2005

By Jonathan Chait

In the summer of 2000, Dick Cheney was appointed to find a vice presidential candidate for George W. Bush, and, as we now know, the winner of the search turned out to be Dick Cheney.

Today, Republicans are casting about for a successor to Bush. And the winner of that search just may turn out to be ... Dick Cheney.

The Draft Cheney movement is burbling just below the surface. Fred Barnes suggested it earlier this month in the Weekly Standard. Tod Lindberg of the Washington Times and Lawrence Kudlow of National Review Online echoed Barnes in columns this week.

Cheneymania has reached critical mass.

The obvious objection is that Cheney has denied any interest in running. Cheney’s value, as both he and Bush have stated repeatedly, lies in his total devotion to this administration and lack of ulterior political motives. But the Cheney-ites have come up with a response: Cheney, they argue, is the ideal candidate to safeguard Bush’s legacy in 2009 and beyond. . . .

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/11275740.htm

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Cheneymania???!! now that IS a scarey thought! geesh, are people really that excruciatingly STUPID?