HELLO, I’M DICK CHENEY AND YOU’LL ALL BE SORRY

[defrog]

ITEM: Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto says that if national security turns out to be the #1 issue in the 2012 presidential election, the GOP’s best bet is ... Dick Cheney.

Of course it’s not a new idea. That one has been batted around for a few months now.

But a number of conservatives are reportedly taking the idea seriously.

Which is silly, of course. When it’s 3.5 years to the next election, you can make the case for just about anyone as a likely candidate. Hell, at this stage I’m sure even Ron Paul has just as good a chance as anyone else. So it sounds like wishful thinking to me.

On the other hand, why not? All the other GOP hopefuls to date have quit, washed out, had affairs or otherwise made fools of themselves. Meanwhile, Cheney’s been lurking all over the Sunday talk shows predicting that Something Horrible is going to happen in Iraq, Afghanistan or even American soil, just so he can pop up later and say, “See? I told you this would happen if you voted Democrat. Obama pulled out of Iraq and closed Gitmo and stopped torturing people and look what happened. I hope yr satisfied.”

Conservatives swoon when he does that.

Which is telling, isn’t it?

So is the fact that the DNC are already running anti-Cheney ads.

You know, just in case history repeats itself.

No fool like an old fool,

This is dF

Comments

[pollards-picks.livejournal.com]

First off, quit flaming me in other people's journals. Now you're even following me to journals of people you don't even know. It's pathetic. You have a problem with me, you know where I can be reached.

Second, I have never claimed Obama is any sort of messiah or "child of legend." The facts of what he's done and has tried to do are well-documented (assuming you rely on something other than Fox as your source of news). And despite his low approval ratings, Americans have an even lower approval of Congress as a whole and a lower approval even still of Republicans and they still believe that Obama is a better hope for fixing things. So quit recycling your right-wing talking points about "oh, he's the next Jimmy Carter" (I'd wager you haven't the faintest idea of Carter's administration in the first place).

Third, I haven't coddled him. I have criticized Obama's administration for not prosecuting torture more aggressively and for not railroading the Republicans like he should have after they made it clear they would not support any of the necessary components of his plans.

Now, once again, go back to your cave, little troll. It's been three months since the last time you chose to stalk me on LiveJournal, and it seems like these flare-ups of yours always occur every three months. Must be time for a refill on those anti-psychotics.