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Matalin: Cheney Will Be VP
NewsMax ^ | 7/19/04 | NewsMax

Posted on 07/18/2004 6:44:49 PM PDT by wagglebee

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Mary Matalin, the former White House aide who acts as an informal media and political adviser for the Cheneys tells Newsweek that she doubts Cheney had ever heard the White House official's advice. "I know what advice he was given because it came directly from me through [his daughter] Liz. And he already knew what he wanted to do," says Matalin.

In other words, either Newsweek or their mysterious White House "source" is intentionally lying to harm Cheney.

1 posted on 07/18/2004 6:44:50 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

Big mistake. Collin Powell would give us a chance.


2 posted on 07/18/2004 6:54:14 PM PDT by monstermashII
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To: wagglebee

No way, McCain is the October surprise. You hear President Cheney in 2008? That's Hillary's pipe dream. McCain would mean 12 more years of GOP.

www.bushmcain2004.com


3 posted on 07/18/2004 6:56:55 PM PDT by Jakenuts
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The paragraph makes no sense whatsoever.Taken from Newsweek article.

Matalin made clear that no one, with the exception of the president, tells Cheney what to do. A month ago Cheney caused a stir when he told Sen. Pat Leahy to "f--- yourself" after Leahy came over to jolly him up on the Senate floor. (Cheney was mad at Leahy for making political hay over Cheney's ties to his old company, Halliburton.) Afterward, a senior White House official told news-week that Communications Director Dan Bartlett advised the Cheney team to "just make a joke of it." But Cheney did not. Rather, the veep affirmed to Fox News that he had told off Leahy and "felt better afterwards." In her interview with NEWSWEEK, Matalin doubted that Cheney had ever heard the White House official's advice. "I know what advice he was given because it came directly from me through Liz. And he already knew what he wanted to do," said Matalin.

4 posted on 07/18/2004 6:57:37 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 ("proud to be a Reagan Republican")
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To: monstermashII

Welcome to Free Republic.


5 posted on 07/18/2004 6:58:12 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I never had the makings of a varsity athlete)
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To: monstermashII

Silence, newbie. You know not of what you speak.


6 posted on 07/18/2004 7:00:48 PM PDT by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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To: SamAdams76

Thank you so much. You wouldn't believe how long I've waited to get on here. You really wouldn't. Now that I'm here I plan to participate in the dialogue and express myself freely. Thankyou for your welcome. See you later.


7 posted on 07/18/2004 7:03:51 PM PDT by monstermashII
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To: monstermashII

It would take about 35 seconds for the media to start bleating that a dumping of Cheney is an act of complete desperation and an admission by Bush that his first term had been a failure.


8 posted on 07/18/2004 7:07:31 PM PDT by WarrenC
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Big mistake. Collin Powell would give us a chance.

Newbie. Colin Powell doesn't want to be president, and he would alienate the base.

9 posted on 07/18/2004 7:07:51 PM PDT by sinkspur (There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)
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To: Doohickey

I'm sorry . Did I say something wrong? I was only expressing my opinion that Chaney seems a little flat politically right now and a new vp candidate might spice things up. Is that wrong?


10 posted on 07/18/2004 7:08:53 PM PDT by monstermashII
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To: sinkspur

What base?


11 posted on 07/18/2004 7:09:41 PM PDT by monstermashII
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To: monstermashII
The GOP base. Powell's pro-abortion, which won't fly with the hard-core GOP.

Plus, he doesn't want to be President, and his wife would never consent to him being on Bush's ticket.

12 posted on 07/18/2004 7:11:16 PM PDT by sinkspur (There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)
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To: monstermashII

You're doing good work. Keep it up.

13 posted on 07/18/2004 7:12:05 PM PDT by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: monstermashII

Didn't realize there was a waiting list to get on here. BTW, Walter Murphy really butchered the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth.


14 posted on 07/18/2004 7:18:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I never had the makings of a varsity athlete)
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To: monstermashII

a chance at what ?


15 posted on 07/18/2004 7:29:53 PM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: SamAdams76

There will be plenty of time during the next year and way before '08 for Bush to shuffle his top people with a view to grooming a VP


16 posted on 07/18/2004 7:32:25 PM PDT by spokeshave (strategery + schadenfreude = stratenschadenfreudery)
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To: Jakenuts
No way, McCain is the October surprise.

McCain was the October 2000 surprise. Lots of reliable sources said so.

The October 2004 surprise is Powell, according to the same reliable sources.

17 posted on 07/18/2004 7:35:37 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H
The October 2004 surprise is Powell, according to the same reliable sources.

Are these the same "reliable" sources who said Kerry was going with Gephardt?

19 posted on 07/18/2004 7:37:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: VRWC_minion

He wants a chance at being zotted.


20 posted on 07/18/2004 7:40:15 PM PDT by babaloo
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