The Cheney Factor

Never fear, though, John McCain is in no sense offering a third Bush term:

In an interview he gave to the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes in 2006 for Hayes’s biography, “Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President,” McCain said: “I will strongly assert to you that he has been of enormous help to this president of the United States.”

Going further, McCain even told Hayes in comments heretofore unpublished that he’d consider Cheney for an administration post.

Asked whether he’d be interested in Cheney had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms, McCain said: “I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.”

McCain's just a guy who wants to continue most of Bush's policies and admires Bush's key henchmen and wants to keep them serving in government office. But that doesn't mean he represents more of the same. It's just a different kind of change -- hell yeah!

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Posted by Steve Sailer | June 11, 2008 4:25 PM

Hell Yeah?

Hell yeah!?!?!?!?!

That quote right there alone disqualifies McCain to be President in the post-Bush era.

McCain needs to be mercilessly pounded over this. Repeat that he said this again and again. Find pictures of McCain and Cheney.

Hell yeah?!?!?!

McCain is a fucking idiot. Seriously, he's a dumb man. To say he's put Cheney in his cabinet, "hell yeah!" To say how about a hundred years in Iraq? How about a thousand?

The American people need to not be allowed to forget that McCain said this garbage.

Obama is going to win this in a rout.

Posted by Hell Yeah! | June 11, 2008 4:33 PM

"I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths."

My guess is that spewing bulls*** about how great things are going in Iraq is one of those "strengths".

Maybe the two of them can go for an preannounced and unattended walk, hand in hand, through that Baghdad market that's so safe for Americans. That'll show us.

Posted by LFC | June 11, 2008 4:34 PM

Who says the Russians have nothing to teach the west?
Obviously this strategy has worked well so far for Putin.

Posted by Maynard Handley | June 11, 2008 4:42 PM

If you're a defense contractor or a petroleum extractor, Cheney's been great to you. Given that these industries are so poor an down-trodden, you'd want someone in your administration that would advance their interests. Aside for the media and the Republican party, the poor people in the petroleum and defense industries have nobody who'll speak for them and bring them out of their desperate poverty. Most of you have never been there, but the inability to buy a brand new Lexus for every one of your daughter's birthdays can be a real hardship on these people. So please, have some sympathy, and understand the desperation they face. Without Cheney, they might have to buy a new Lexus every two years. Imagine the shame.

Posted by fostert | June 11, 2008 4:46 PM

Isn't it time for Cheneny to move on to golf or something?

Posted by Swan | June 11, 2008 4:50 PM

"He and I have the same strengths."
Cue pictures of each of them making horrifying smiles.

I guess the idea is that a McCain administration will be less like Bush/Cheney, and more like Cheney/Bush. He just needs a Bush figure for VP.

Posted by Blake | June 11, 2008 4:59 PM

what a dumb thing for McCain to say re: his and Cheney's strengths. Cheney has got to be one of the most unpopular political figures ever. He's just showing how out of touch he really is. Cheney in his cabinet? Yet ANOTHER REason not to vote for McCain.

Posted by cnnr | June 11, 2008 5:06 PM

had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms

This phrasing kinda-sorta implies that Cheney is term-limited out of the VP seat after serving two terms. Not so! There is no Constitutional term limit to the Vice President. Either Cheney or Gore would be available for the Veep job still.

However, since you're not eligible to be VP if you're not eligible to be President, a term-limited President is disqualified from becoming VP. So Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are both disqualified from being elected to the VP seat. But Carter and George Bush the Elder are both available.

Posted by Adam Villani | June 11, 2008 5:25 PM

Just keep repeating this over and over to everyone you talk to:
George W. McCain
George W. McCain
George W. McCain
George W. McCain
George W. McCain
George W. McCain
.....

Posted by Ern | June 11, 2008 5:37 PM

Just keep repeating this over and over to everyone you talk to:

John McCheney
John McCheney
etc.

Posted by dogfacegeorge | June 11, 2008 8:00 PM

McCain, More Accurately, Is A Fourth Term of Bush.

41

43 43

44

Did we mention fifth from the bottom of his class?

Posted by kravitz | June 11, 2008 10:11 PM

I would also consider Cheney for a government position in 2009, but I'm thinking along the lines of Toilet Cleaner in a federal prison. No mop, either. Just strap a sponge to his head.

Posted by MoeLarryAndJesus | June 12, 2008 12:02 AM

MoeLarryAndJesus - you think that's funny, but you have no idea how often I had to complain to the asshat CO in charge of the Unicore evening shift at the Florence, Colorado FCI because I had no cleaning supplies to clean the factory john except some paper towels.

Then I went up to the factory manager and complained to him. He went off on the CO, so naturally the CO went off on me.

So, yeah, I'd love to see Cheney in that position.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | June 12, 2008 12:30 AM

"He and I have the same strengths."

Extensive experience with surgery? Ability to swear at colleagues? Inability to smile convincingly?

Posted by Ginger Yellow | June 12, 2008 7:36 AM

“John said some nasty things about me the other day and then, next time he saw me, ran over to me and apologized. Maybe he’ll apologize to Rumsfeld.”

The assholishness of Cheney can be breathtaking at times.

Posted by asl | June 12, 2008 8:23 AM

This Quote, "Hell, Yeah!" Basically shows what a friggin' suck up this guy is. Obama is going to win large. People are hurting, from the upper middle class all the way down, and have lost faith in their current leaders. Obama is one hell of a motivational speaker, and he gives people what they need right now. HOPE. I just wish that he would pick Hillary as his running mate. The margin of votes would be so large, there could be no doubt as to the election being rigged, such as with the last Presidential election. I speak of the questionable performance of optical scan voting machines in the state of Florida, where there were MAJOR inconsistencies with reported vote numbers. Up to a 700 % difference, invariably for Bush. We won't even speak of the Gore debacle, a clear case of the US Supreme Court siding with Bush. It was a CROCK, and everyone knew it. Hopefully, there won't be another 9/11, which would enact a clause of the Patriot act, giving HUGE powers to the President, including the ability to suspend elections in times of National Defence. I'm not Paranoid, merely Observant! heeheee;?)

Posted by J.J. | June 12, 2008 12:43 PM

This Quote, "Hell, Yeah!" Basically shows what a friggin' suck up this guy is. Obama is going to win large. People are hurting, from the upper middle class all the way down, and have lost faith in their current leaders. Obama is one hell of a motivational speaker, and he gives people what they need right now. HOPE. I just wish that he would pick Hillary as his running mate. The margin of votes would be so large, there could be no doubt as to the election being rigged, such as with the last Presidential election. I speak of the questionable performance of optical scan voting machines in the state of Florida, where there were MAJOR inconsistencies with reported vote numbers. Up to a 700 % difference, invariably for Bush. We won't even speak of the Gore debacle, a clear case of the US Supreme Court siding with Bush. It was a CROCK, and everyone knew it. Hopefully, there won't be another 9/11, which would enact a clause of the Patriot act, giving HUGE powers to the President, including the ability to suspend elections in times of National Defence. I'm not Paranoid, merely Observant! heeheee;?)

Posted by J.J. | June 12, 2008 12:46 PM

This Quote, "Hell, Yeah!" Basically shows what a friggin' suck up this guy is. Obama is going to win large. People are hurting, from the upper middle class all the way down, and have lost faith in their current leaders. Obama is one hell of a motivational speaker, and he gives people what they need right now. HOPE. I just wish that he would pick Hillary as his running mate. The margin of votes would be so large, there could be no doubt as to the election being rigged, such as with the last Presidential election. I speak of the questionable performance of optical scan voting machines in the state of Florida, where there were MAJOR inconsistencies with reported vote numbers. Up to a 700 % difference, invariably for Bush. We won't even speak of the Gore debacle, a clear case of the US Supreme Court siding with Bush. It was a CROCK, and everyone knew it. Hopefully, there won't be another 9/11, which would enact a clause of the Patriot act, giving HUGE powers to the President, including the ability to suspend elections in times of National Defence. I'm not Paranoid, merely Observant! heeheee;?)

Posted by J.J. | June 12, 2008 12:46 PM