5.16.2005

Cheney: A Bad Thing Gets Worse

So Bob Woodward says Cheney may throw his hat into the race for 2008, after the VP had stated categorically several times that he would not.

Before the righties begin to clap, stop and consider a few things:

    * Cheney is the architect of almost every horrible thing this Admin has done
    * Cheney disagrees with you, at least publicly, on the issue of the GOP's intolerance over gays, but only after his daughter was so publicly outed
    * Those base closures always occur on Cheney's watch
    * Remember Lynn's racy lesbian novel? Heaving bosom to heaving bosom?
    * Energy policy always gets worse under Cheney, whose wallet gets fatter with every gas price increase
    * I don't think Cheney has quite the slavish interest in extreme religion you do either; Cheney is not a fundamentalist which - by your definition - makes him a non-Christian
    * Statistically speaking, you probably served in war or had to pull strings to avoid it; Cheney is great with ordering sons into war, but he pulled every trick in the book to avoid serving himself ("I had other priorities", he said dismissively)
    * And on a purely personal note, Cheney has all the charisma of ... wait.. Darth Vader, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and the antichrist all have more charisma than Dick; never mind!