A couple of weeks ago, a trashy movie was released that hypothesized the year 2012 would see all sorts with unspeakable catastrophes unleashed, in keeping with a supposed ancient Mayan prophecy.
Kind of a ridiculous premise. But then again (via CNN):
A new group wants former Vice President Dick Cheney back in the White House.
The organization – “Draft Dick Cheney 2012″ – launched on Friday, and unveiled their new Web site. Their aim: To convince the former vice president to seek the Republican presidential nomination in the next race for the White House….
“The 2012 race for the Republican nomination for President will be about much more then who will be the party’s standard bearer against Barack Obama, the race is about the heart and soul of the GOP,” said Christopher Barron, one of the organizers of the Draft Cheney movement. “There is only one person in our party with the experience, political courage and unwavering commitment to the values that made our party strong – and that person is Dick Cheney.”
Few people take this seriously, of course. As Teddy Partridge hinted two weeks ago and I noted more explicitly in September, this draft-Dick chatter is just a facade to justify the continuing media presence of his daughter, Liz (lest anyone ask, “Why, exactly, are you relevant?”) as she unsubtly positions herself for a future electoral career.
But as long as they’re going to play this game, it seems reasonable that we should call their bluff. If Liz Cheney’s going to keep getting invited onto the cable talk shows and the public-speaking circuit based on the excuse that her dad might run for the White House, some noisy folks should start insisting on equal time for the questions Dick Cheney would have to answer if he weren’t too cowardly to show his own face in an open forum.
You know, the implausible amnesia, the sleeping on the job (literally and figuratively), the evidence hidden in safes intended for classified information, etc… anyone want to start compiling the list?
If he wants to haunt our nightmares, there’s no reason we shouldn’t try to haunt his.
Tags: 2012 Election, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney
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i wanna be dick cheney’s worst nightmare — an informed curious person who wants to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Yeah? Well he’s got a black site somewhere especially for the likes of you.
You mean you’re not willing to chuck the Constitution in the name of bipartisanship? Must be some kinda socialist or sumpin’.
i am a liberal — hear me RAAAWWWWR
War crimes trials! To the Hague with them all!
Think of all the things Cheney has yet to do for (to) the world. How could he NOT run in 2012?
Obama is scoring so many points with Republicans, I’m certain they’ll be willing to overlook any infractions by his admin…
the dick and baby dick ticket
Pretty sad commentary that we would have to ship law breaking officials outside the country for justice to be served and there is zero chance of that happening.
True. There are whole countries not yet destroyed, women who have not been raped or forced into prostitution, civilians not killed or driven into refugee camps, and thousands of people yet to be tortured. Not tom mention there are still Americans with jobs and we still have a few constitutional freedoms left. There is simply too much work for a mere mortal. This is clearly a job for the Dark Lord.
and more money for halliburton and its subsidiaries to suck up
Maybe we could run one of those scams like the feds occasionally do with fugitives. We will convince him that he has won an all expenses paid trip to Amsterdam’s red light district and once he is there, the Dutch authorities grab him and haul him off to the Hague.
Dark Lord of Super Patriot. You say tomato, wingnuts say t’mater.
When it comes to blindsiding a Palin/Bachmann teabagger ticket, watch for Cheney/Gingrich 2012.
Now that’s a whores of a different color.
oooooh nice one ppd :)
Maybe we could get Scooter to bait the trap.
Despite the fact that only serial killers have lower approval stats than Cheney, remember how the country worried that McCain could die in office because of his age. He was in pretty good health too. Cheney has had four heart attacks and how many related procedures. Cheney as President isn’t gonna happen.
The Dark Lord and the Newton Bomb (destroys all intelligent life just by entering the room).
LOL!
Seems like they’ve already completed that mission in respect to Republican voters and Democratic pols.
Well, they, along with the MSM, are the most likely to have been in the same room with him.
Daft Dick Cheney
20122001 – 2008fixed it for you
Hiya Suz
what? no EKG ticker tape parade?!
hey ppd — how goes
Ticker assumes facts not in evidence.
good thanks — we’re back from Sacramento for Thanksgiving — how was yours?
I was rather hoping for an orange jump suit parade myself.
Oops. This for punaise at 24.
yet as W’s puppet master he was quite the ventricle-twist
i got sick thur and had to leave before dinner was even served. am headed back tomorrow for an afternoon meal of leftovers to try to make up for being the worst mom in the world
dude, blogs didn’t even exist when I was 24… :~)
Ahhh, but first the perp walk ….
unless they get the same anti-constitutional undue process that they’ve designed and delivered upon others.
Just the worse virus on the block, I’m sure you’re still the best mom in the world.
He hadn’t aorta done that.
Hell, when I was 24 personal computers didn’t exist. It was all keypunch and mainframes that took up a whole room with a fraction of computing power in your laptop.
before hand held calculators?
the little angina that could… “I think I can , I think I can”
with a personal defibrillator that chimes ‘hit me with your best shot’ when ready
No, they came out when I was 19, but still cost several hundred dollars when I was 24.
I’d be the last one to deny him his well-earned plaque.
hehehehe
And still cost over one hundred dollars for high schoolers in the late 90’s. Each year.
I’ll bet his blood type is b-negative.
cheney likes to party like it is 1478
I’d settle for b-gone.
Is it true that if you play the Cheney 9/11 commission testimony backwards you can hear Satan having an orgasm?
Yes, but by that time, you could buy much cheaper versions. In the mid-70s the cheapest ones were IIRC over $100, maybe $80-90.
That’s not so long ago then — still within the electronic age.
Hell, you can hear that if you play it forward.
How many of you remember slide rules?
in the mid 70’s i was lucky if i was making $100/week.
Definitely. Mid-70s, which is sort of the dawn of the electronics age. Transistor radios came out when I was in high school.
are you ready for your close up, Monty Python DeMille?
Moi. My father was an engineer and had several. I fortunately never had to use one.
Never met a dickhead I didn’t go one on one with- except for the “rape” scenario. Me and a billion other women.
Dick Cheney is that man, he needs to be brought to justice. He’s a rapist. He’s evil.
So, DNA his daughter’s children I say.
Then get them the hell away from Dick.
Yes, they were very dear! Our family bought one, and everyone shared. In 1999-2002 we were held hostage in the late years of high school by the school requiring a particular one.
There was one in our house…I remember.
I got my BS from an engineering school. Went to med school and never looked back. Thanks mostly to the evils of sliderulery.
Sure, Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Johnny Winter, Ben Harper, etc. etc..
If he wants to haunt our nightmares, there’s no reason we shouldn’t try to haunt his.
For one year (1975-1976) I made double the minimum wage (about $3.50-4.00 as I recall). Then I went to graduate school and made basically no money for the next 11 years.
Later all
Night. Time for me to toddle off as well. Take care all.
waving g’nite to the leaving sleepyheads
Someone in authority needs to hold CheneyDick accountable. It’s not going to be Obama, of course, but maybe some other real authority will come through.
Well .. Jon(or is it John?) Meacham(yeah .. the editor of Newsweek) has a new column up saying that Darth Cheney should run. I’ll leave it to you to guess why. Just saying it’s logic only a Villager could love.
is why so many hope the hague will take action… it aint gonna happen in the us and iirc the rule is the host country is given an opportunity first and if they dont…..
Hold the bandwagon. Me too, see y’all.
Hiya Firepups! Didja miss me?
hey cassie — were ya missing? were ya off visiting for the holidays?
Absolutely.
I was visiting colleges in the northeast!
and????
What he said!
and ….. Princeton and Vassar are my first choice schools. Then Lafayette. Then William and Mary.
not. i got sick before dinner was even served. it was her first year cooking the thanksgiving dinner and her mom got sick without eating a thing and left while it was still cooking.
and your reasoning?
Christopher Barron, incidentally, started GOProud for gay Republicans for whom the Log Cabinettes were too liberal. Really.
He proposed concealed-carry laws as a better solution for hate crimes, rather than passing the Mathew Shepard Act. Really.
He co-authored criticism of the Hate Crimes Act with notorious anti-gay bigot Tom Coburn.
He has told Michaelangelo Signorile that he thinks a Sarah Palin Presidency would be good for LGBT Americans.
Dude is sooooo wrong.
Great schools, faculty, interdisciplinary programs, not in big cities, not huge universities, and I liked them.
Now I need to see where I get accepted and who offers the most scholarship money.
And Hey Cassie! I’m listening too.
do they already like you?
Bingo!
It is a long slog through the process, who offers how much, but you can do it. The goal, no debt and a great education.
If you left after eating she would think it was her food, this way she knows it’s not at all.
Hey Suzanne,
Feeling better?
LOL
or it could mean that the smell of her cooking was so bad that it sickened me prior to the meal even being served.
worst. mom. ever.
Hey I’m listening too.
hey ce — some. still have a wee headache over my left eyebrow but not so bad that i have to take anything for it.
Yes positive feedback and interviews, but no acceptance letters yet.
Suzanne, you could never be the worst mom ever.
Nothing worse than fleeing from households serving holiday food. I’ve pled too much meat on many occasions. Hope you feel better tomorrow.
i know i disappointed her by leaving.
and i knew that if i sat down at the table and looked at all the food that i would be bolting from the table before my bottom even touched the chair.
it was her first and it smelled so good (for about 3 seconds until the fumes hit my tummy)
And he will live comfortably on wingnut welfare for the rest of his days. As long as he keeps his conscience thoroughly sedated.
william & Mary is an excellent school, but it is a very traditional and conservative campus. If it comes down to that, I hope you make another visit when school is in session to understand what the student body is all about. Lots of privileged young people, lots of Virginia gentry, lots of prejudice. I can’t see you being happy there, dear, but I think if it comes to that you should definitely make another, longer visit before you decide.
They won’t come this week — starting in December, or, the next two weeks. Think about ordering that winter coat you didn’t want to buy.
hey swopa — nice seeing ya here on the dark side of the lake. great post dood
Great post, Swopa, thanks for the namecheck.
I missed the first half of the conversation, but can you tell her that you got sick from something you ate at your house before you went?
You can’t do anything about being sick. I am sure she understands.
Thanks Teddy. That’s exactly what I didn’t like about Lehigh.
Cassie,
I suspect that Teddy at 95 is right. I have to say that I am educated at mid-Atlantic universities, and they were very liberal and tolerant. So is Ohio. I don’t have any first-hand experience with the south or ivy league schools.
she knows it wasn’t anything from her house — its just it was her first time cooking the thanksgiving dinner and i flaked on her and left before dinner *sigh*
It is a pity. Moms we will forever be…
Cassie,
I still think that you should look at Oberlin College.
Anyone still here?
she was trying to not be teary when i told her. i could tell.
*raising hand*
I’ll look again. But not tonight. I flew home today and I feel like I have been awake forever. G’nite.
g’nite cassie
Whew!
Sleep well and talk to your Aunt.
i was putting the finishing touches on my lln post ce — sorry i was delayed in replying
Can Cheney 2012 be described as anything other than a self-eating watermelon? Which the Urban dictionary defines as any undertaking that exists only to justify its own existence rather than to serve a productive purpose.
I had such a wonderful visit with MsCE. I found letters from Paris, written in 1978 from me and MrCE to his parents in Pennsylvania. Patty and I laughed until we cried. I wrote those letters, and MrCE at the same age as she is now.
The GOP is hurting for a candidate with sufficient gravitas to garner votes. Of their current batch, IMHO, Romney is their best bet, but even he doesn’t carry much weight with the voters.
In 1952, they turned to a well regarded General, Dwight Eisenhower. They may be forced to pull that play out of their book again.
I am sure it was very important that you were there. At least you were able to go, even if you didn’t make it to dinner. Think about how disappointing it would have been if you hadn’t been able to attend at all.
late late nite upstairs
The problem with Mittens is the fundies absolutely can not and will not ever vote for him.
What, Betrayus? Arm the right wing groups and then pay them not to attack?
What, Betrayus? Arm the right wing groups and then pay them
notto attack?That is what we are doing. We are paying them to allow our supplies through. They are in turn, using the money to attack us. Betrayus has NO chance of being the candidate.
- only a half day late to the party, such as it twas -
HEY Cassie! You go grrrrllll! I think you could easily get a thousand or so letters of reference from the Lake. No joke. Good luck, and keep us posted.
and Smith.
;->
stillyetagainalready. yup. u?
pffft! missed a good thread. Happy Thanksgiving All.
Morning, Adie
Hope you had a Happy Feast