Republicans Rally Around Cheney as Rumors Swirl

Yahoooo via Reuters ^ | 2/25/04

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Naah ! Change his oil, rotate his tires and Cheney's good for another 100,000 miles.

[mass55th]

The only rumors that are swirling are the ones the media is starting, and the wishful thinking of the DemonRATS. The President already said that Dick and he are running in '04. What more do these people need?

[Huck]

But then where will we get our gravitas???

[Naspino]

BARF ARTICLE. This is nothing more than setting up Bush as a political monster if anything does happen to Cheney or if Cheney steps down.

[afz400]

Bush needs to distance himself from the Halliburton Iraq mess - the greedy SOBs have only themselves to blame on that one and Cheney stinks to high heaven by being associated with them. Besides with Rice as VP he would win hands-down. Cheney's smug know-it-all arrogance is getting old IMHO.

[drc43]

Sure sounds like the media wants Cheney gone. So many articles speculating his demise. Cheney must be getting to them.

[Always Right]

Short of serious health problems, there is absolutely no way Cheney will not be the VP. This talk is as dumb as talk about Hillary taking out Kerry in a plane accident, although there is little more merit in that possibility.

[billorites]

"Rice as VP he would win hands-down."

Rice is untested. Seems to be kinda brittle too, IMHO.

[MEG33]

It's in the media and right here on FR.I wonder if some suggesting Guilliani replace Cheney are really Republicans.I like Guilliani but he is not a good replacement as a VP.He is more likely to be a good candidate for NY Senator.

[anniegetyourgun]

They hate that Cheney can bring in the campaign bucks, even while their guy doesn't have a running mate yet.

[sirshackleton]

Take it to the bank....Bush-Frist '04

[muleskinner]

A good friend of mine, Sierra Club Lib, NPR junkie, but agrees with Bush on his foreign policey, would seriously consider voting for G.W., if D.C. wasn't on the ticket. He's bought into the whole Halliburton thing. I keep telling him, "Too much NPR".

[deport]

Hang in there.... only 4 3/4 years to go and then someone else can have it.....

[azcap]

Cheney needs to resign next spring not this spring. That way Bush can choose his successor in a non-election state of mind. If the GOP doesn't prepare a successor to Bush for 2008 we are setting ourselves up for a hard lesson.

[Mr. Bird]

Can you clarify what you mean by the "Halliburton Iraq mess"? Mr. Cheney, last I checked, has as much to do with Halliburton as Mr. Bush has to do with the Texas Rangers.

[Cowboy Bob]

Rice is untested. Seems to be kinda brittle too, IMHO.

Watch out, or you're going to get flamed by the "Condi! for President" fan club!

[BibChr]

I love Cheney. Too bad he's morally tone-deaf on homosexuality, but in every other way, he seems superb. He so flattened the much-vaunted Lieberman last go-around; he could flatten anyone the Dims pick.

Pro-abort Giuliani or fuzzy-but-suspicious-on-abortion Rice would split the party, and be about the stupidest thing Bush could do short of cheating on Laura or getting drunk with Maureen Dowd.

Dan

[Iowamerican]

I already have a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on my car, so I say he's on the ticket to stay.

[RichInOC]

...blah blah blah...

I think I've been seeing stories (and Freeper posts) like this for the last four years. None of them have panned out. Wake me up when Big Time actually leaves.