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2004-06-22 Home Front: Politix

USA Today: Cheney needs to step aside for good of Bush

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Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-06-22 07:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Seems to be a rash of these articles recently. I rather doubt there will be a change (Bush seems too loyal/stubborn for it), but if there were, it seems likely that it would be a "surprise" move at the convention to gain as much bounce as possible.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-06-22 9:03:38 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-06-22 9:03:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Opening line:
I am writing to you as a long-time admirer...
...that just happens to spout the rhetoric of the hard-left.

1) A vice-president is not nearly as big a factor as the writer believes. The people who believe Cheney is the White House puppet-master and the Oil Industry Rep-in-Chief already hate Bush and Cheney. Big deal. Removing Cheney from the ticken won't convince them. Neither would a sudden about-face on Kyoto. They just hate these guys.

2) Even in the 4th year of the Bush administration, there are still people who don't recognize "Dick Cheney" as the current VP, and think that Halliburton makes those Miami Vice-era aluminum brief cases. I'm not just talking about the kind of people on Street Smarts... I'm talking about otherwise intelligent, educated people who just don't pay much attention to politics. Hard to believe they still exist, but I work with them daily.

Leave the status = quo. And ignore the dead tree media when they start giving advice to a Republic seeking re-election.

Posted by eLarson 2004-06-22 9:09:43 AM|| 2004-06-22 9:09:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 There's a part of me that wants to see W and Vice President Condoleeza Rice on the convention podium together, but . . . no.

Posted by Mike 2004-06-22 9:19:40 AM|| 2004-06-22 9:19:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mike: There's a part of me that wants to see W and Vice President Condoleeza Rice on the convention podium together, but . . . no.

Rice is a blank slate. I have no idea of her positions outside of national security - which were properly conservative and anti-Soviet, during the Cold War, when she was an academic at Stanford. There's no way she's ready for the vice-presidential slot. She needs to get her political sea legs somewhere, perhaps in a governorship, before reaching for the ultimate political prize.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-06-22 10:11:33 AM|| [http://www.polipundit.com] 2004-06-22 10:11:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If Cheney is going to step aside, it's a smart move to delay the announcement until as late in the game as is possible. It will delay the time they have to practice their policies of personal destruction on whoever the new running mate will be.

Posted by B 2004-06-22 12:27:16 PM|| 2004-06-22 12:27:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd like the Mucki viewpoint on this matter.

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-22 3:46:08 PM|| 2004-06-22 3:46:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey, why not? He could go and run Halliburton's new "Conquest of Space" program.

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-22 8:42:56 PM|| 2004-06-22 8:42:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I expect to see this:
Bush - McCain
up against
Kerry - Gephart

Posted by 3dc 2004-06-23 12:55:12 AM|| 2004-06-23 12:55:12 AM|| Front Page Top

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