Does anyone else here think?

[The Flaming Red Head]

That Cheney is going to negotiate some sort of golden parachute out of the VP office and they’ll write it off to health problems and then McCain will step into the VP spot on the Republican side? Or is just me?

[Goldmund]

1. It's just you

McCain wouldn't do it. He'll be a good Republican and support his party's nominee, but he won't get that close to Bush. IMO, of course.

[NewHampshireDem]

2. Yes ... No

Yes, I think Cheney may be done and will find "health reasons" to give up the presidency ... uh, I mean, vice presidency.

No, I don't think it will be McCain ... I think McCain has too much integrity to run with that mo-fo.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. No, he's stuck there.

Neither McCain nor Powell is going to take the VP spot and it's too late to dump him.

[aden_nak]

4. Cheney is the President. He's not going anywhere.

[KurtNYC]

5. Only if Cheney gets indicted in the Plame scandal

since it is clearly treason.

[seventhson]

8. what are the odds of that happening???

with things the way they are?

I'd love to see it but it might mean a pardon too and I think he deserves BIG time for his crimes and treasonous acts against our own military and intelligence operators..

[KurtNYC]

9. 33%

for what its worth - according to the "indict-o-meter"

http://www.truedorktimes.com/2004vote/indictometer.htm

[truthspeaker]

6. No way. Cheney is in charge, loves power, can't admit he's wrong.

He will fight detractors tooth and nail and he will fight dirty.

[seventhson]

7. The problem is that there is no one as crooked as Cheney to help

with the coverups.

Condi and Powell are just figureheads and know little (and Powell IMHO is NOT going to touch the VP because of the dirt involved - altho as a "good" soldier he might be swayed into anything)

Rumsfeld is a Millstone around Bush's neck (though he is the scariest option and the deadliest for liberty)

Ashcroft has the personality and charisma of a tongue pustule.

I do think McCain would be a possibility but he is too honest IMHO to play along and hence would be a danger to the Bushzis. He'd just as soon see Bush go down and take his job. They need a consummate INSIDER (like Nixon picked Gerald Ford because he was involved in the JFK assassination coverup as a member of the warren commission)

Bush and Cheney and Baker et al need someone who can cover up their crimes to prevent them from going to jail for the rest of history.

Cheney might bail if only to get pardoned -- but I think they are such assholes that they will go down only by their own stupidity and arrogance fighting a fruitless battle covered in the toxic syrup of their own deceit.

Cheney wants to go and Bush wants him to go probably because he is a liability - but he is a greater asset as a coconspirator - and so there is almost no one who can fill his shoes and Cheney is too arrogant to find a replacement for himself (only Rummy is so mired in the crimes at the top levels that he could be trusted but he is too much of a dementor skeletor to help the ticket.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Cheney might get the axe...

but it looks like Shrub is calling the shots, and he seems to be behind Cheney no matter what anyone tells him.

I can't see McCain going for it. Not only does he seem to dislike Shrub personally and politically, it looks like a dead-end job for him. He's doing qute well in the Senate as it is, and why screw that up for what could be a monumentally failed race this year. I can't help but think that McCain would rather slyly throw banana peels in Shrub's way than run with him. He and Kerry have been friends for years, and why screw that up? Methinks he would like to work with Kerry in the White House.

Giuliani is often mentioned, and the thought terrifies me. His reputation, like Donald Trump's, is more from PR than any actual basis in fact. He is a fearsome tyrant, and a lot smarter than some of the fearsome tyrants we already have in DC. Prince Rudy doesn't like to be in second place, though, and is making millions off of Shrub's policies. He'd have to give up the business if he ran, and I don't think he's up to doing that right now. If Shrub loses, he pretty much loses everything.

[AP]

11. Repub's only hope is C. falling on his sword...literally. Voters will not

believe health problems forced him to leave, even though we know he has a bad ticker.