McCain is dead wrong on this, as he is a lot of other things.
But that isn’t the point. The point is that Cheney, Bush, and the Republicans in general are absolutely hated by the majority of the voting public at this point.
The more anyone in the administration gets involved they get in campaign issues, the easier it’s going to be for the terrorist’s choice candidate to link McCain with everything that’s going wrong lately and in November that’ll be all she wrote.
Public disagreement with McCain is probably about the best help they can give him. The substance of the disagreement is immaterial.
Right now, DC is doing nothing about the pain people feel at the pump daily.
And like I told my two Senators’s offices today, the cost of heating oil and natural gas for heating homes by the fall will be a HUGE issue.
Cheney can help position the GOP out in front of the issue and lead the GOP in hammering away at the Dems for their failure to lead on the issue and their failure to lower energy costs promised in 2006. His wit and straight talk would also help out John McCain.
Look, we all know that the Dems and the media are going to paint John McCain as the third term of President Bush, so get out in front and beat them to the punch, I say.
The Dems always have a cohesive message, even when it is traitorous or wrong. The GOP acts like a bunch of unco-ordinated twits running around a field.
Too much is at stake for that nonsense any longer.