Posted on 07/07/2004 10:41:28 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Some people say that Cheney deserves to be vice-president because his son was killed in an automobile accident. /sarcasm off
It should at least convince Boy Edwards he is not ready to play at this level. I am horrified by what little experience he has - it's as if he wanted to continue his political career, knew he would not win re-election, didn't want to go down as a Representative, had no chance of becoming Governor - he threw the ultimate of "Hail Marys" as you lot would say, and ran for the Presidency. That's an absolutely dreadful way to find someone to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
The idea of "President Edwards" frightens the hell out of me - Tony Blair has met him and came away extremely unimpressed.
Regards, Ivan
If Cheney gets tarnished by the Plame investigation, it might be expedient to drop him.
Maybe Al should STFU. He lost to Chuck Schumer, WTF does he know about anything?
I thought he was talking about the rat party, as justification for his suggestion regarding Cheney's dumping.
Forgetable...
D'Amato, who once sang "Old MacDonald" on the floor of the Senate.looking for his 15 seconds of fame...
NOW I know why he was referred to as "Al DeMento" by his liberal opponents.
The line up of speakers at the Republican convention ALREADY has me worried - the "Gubernator", Pataki, Giuliani - a regular rogue's gallery of leftist RINOs.
If Bush swing to the left to try to draw any liberal voters, he will loose his conservative base - and I will be one of them. And dumping Cheney would be simply unforgivable.
(Got that Carl Rove???)
I lost all respect for Al D'Amato the day he sang the "old McDonald had a farm" bs years ago. Given the fact he got fired by the voters, by a large margin, the gall he displays with this is stunning.
He's one of the reasons I have never joined the Republican Party, choosing to stay a registered lifelong Independent. He's a prime example of why I refer to the GOP "Leadership" as The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight.
Kerry made a huge mistake. He chose popularity over experience. Edwards will goof up big time - Just watch. He may be okay on the campaign trail with all those women oooooing and ahhhhing but when he comes into the studio and has to sit down and hash it out - he's going to screw up BIG TIME! Kerry should have chose Gephardt - Gephardt had over 20 years of experience in the Senate. Just look at the lookwarm response in the media.
lookwarm=lukewarm
"With the selection of Edwards, this is an incredibly stupid idea - I am looking forward to seeing Cheney, in his soft Wyoming twang, tear the Boy Edwards to pieces."
Yep, pretty much demonstrates why Al isn't holding an elective office, doesn't it?
I like Powell, but the kind of unity you are looking for would not happen, even with him. Too much hatred and ignorance on the left, pumped into the sheeple's living room via the mainstream media. you can't unify with that.
there really is not reason for the country to not be unified - except for this hatred from teh left and the media. Bush hasn't done anything to divide the country. What the Bush political team has done is ceded the premise on issue after issue to the lies of the left, without effectively countering it. The divisions that exist are built on lies about Iraq, and its going to be hard/impossible to take those premises back - absent some major WMD revelation for example.
The only way I see VP Cheney stepping down is for health reasons -- if the doctor was concerned about his heart condition then I think he should step aside and think about his health. There is no way that Pres Bush would just drop him from the ticket IMHO.
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