[andy58-in-nh]

Virtually every liberal pundit on Rahm Emmanuel's e-mail list has now echoed this week's talking point: Dick Cheney is awful, terrible, bad Bad BAD for the Republicans! So bad, in fact that GOP'ers are themselves deeply ashamed and cringing at his every word!!! "My God, why won't he just go away?"

And yet, every Republican I've spoken to or heard comment (with the exception of the Washington RINOcracy) has been ecstatic that finally, someone in our deeply depressed party is willing to stand up for the very same principles and ideas that motivated the greatest President of our lifetimes: Ronald Wilson Reagan.

The truth is, Dick Cheney is Viagra for Republicans; a figure at whom our soft noodles in Washington seethe not with anger, but jealousy. He is also an adult presently in the company of children at a time when father figures are routinely belittled but have never been more desperately needed.

[expatpat]

Yes indeed. The GOP is leaderless at the moment and Dick Cheney is filling in while we find a leader........