Dick Cheney was one reason I used to pray for George W. Bush.

Look at the bright side.

Most of us will see Dick Cheney die in our lifetime.

The sooner, the better.

Dick Cheney was one reason I used to pray for George W. Bush.

#1 | Posted by danni

I used to pray dickless would take him hunting.....

Most of us will see Dick Cheney die in our lifetime.

#2 | Posted by Manypaths
There IS that.....

I only wish they'd broadcast his execution on National TV.

This article is the biggest crock of shit I have read in a long time.

the American right has comforted itself with the idea that conservatives lost the country primarily because the Bush-era Republican Party spent too much money on social programs. And John McCain's defeat has been taken as the vindication of this premise.

What a bunch of lame ass ignoramuses came up with that analysis?

Let me spell this out as clearly as I can. Part of the people leaving the GOP are because the GOP has been taken over by the neo-cons and religious right. Part of them are leaving because Bush/Cheney raped and invalidated the rule of law, ethics and the constitution. Part of them are leaving because the GOP fucked over the whole country in order to bolster exxon and haliburton.

As one can clearly tell, americans have no great aversion to spending too much, even deficit spending.

Put him in a wheelchair and give him a black glove, and you've got Dr. Strange-Cheney.

Most of us will see Dick Cheney die in our lifetime.

The only way that Dick will die is if his apprentice kills him - that's the way of the Sith.

"If you only knew the power of the Dark Side..."

I hope that by 2012 Mr. Cheney will be inelligible for the office due to those pesky felony convictions.

I wish him long life behind bars after a fair trial.

Lip-
I think that's the point of the article. I think (I'm not a big fan of the bait-and-switch tactic the article appears to employ because I think the author muddied up his point) that the point is that Cheney would have easily swept the Republican primaries and then would have gotten murdered in the general election, thus cementing America's opposition to Bush-era bullshittery and possibly cleansing the Republican party of those neocon elements.

Any other posters think I'm on the money with that analysis? I'm serious...I'm not entirely positive what the point of the article was.

I'm not entirely positive what the point of the article was.

#9 | Posted by dylanfan

I sounds to me like the dude has his head firmly stuck up cheneys ass. I don't believe it is satire, if it is, it's a poor attempt.

This is the problem with bad satire. If you ain't over the top, you're an advocate of that which you are trying to satirize.

"As a candidate, Cheney would have doubtless been as disciplined and ideologically consistent as McCain was feckless. In debates with Barack Obama, he would have been as cuttingly effective as he was in his encounters with Joe Lieberman and John Edwards in 2000 and 2004 respectively. And when he went down to a landslide loss, the conservative movement might might! have been jolted into the kind of rethinking that's necessary if it hopes to regain power.

If a Cheney defeat could have been good for the Republican Party; a Cheney campaign could have been good for the country. The former vice-president's post-election attacks on Obama are bad form, of course, under the peculiar rules of Washington politesse. But they're part of an argument about the means and ends of our interrogation policy that should have happened during the general election and didn't because McCain wasn't a supporter of the Bush-era approach, and Obama didn't see a percentage in harping on the topic."

It's these two paragraphs that make me think the article is satirical. I agree, though....it's no "Modest Proposal" (Jonathon Swift, if you're unfamiliar...classic example of satire).

I thought this was relevant in light of Specter's switch. It is exactly what the "Club for Growth" would advocate. That it was satirical was double fun for me.

I'm throwing the bullshit flag on this one.

This is no attempt at satire. This guy is a believer. It's sole purpose was to float a trial balloon. Try again.