A brief item in the newspaper trade magazine Editor & Publisher alerts the nation to the possibility of a Dick Cheney presidency.
E&P quotes Bob Woodward, speaking on Chris Matthews’ Sunday talkie, as saying that the increasingly crowded GOP presidential field might inspire the current president to ask, “ ‘What about Dick?’ ” (Presumably this was not a reference to anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley or outgoing member of the FDA’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs, David Hager.)
Woodward, E&P says, went on to dismiss the field of current known GOP hopefuls, among whom are counted Senators Bill Frist, George Allen, Sam Brownback and John McCain, by commenting that “there’s a serious vacuum right now.”
The notion that Cheney could be somehow inserted into that vacuum is not, notes E&P, unimaginable.
There may be a precedent for this. Cheney, who was put in charge of finding a suitable VP candidate in 2000, ended up getting the nod himself.
One likely warning sign of an impending Cheney candicacy might be a Republican attempt, beginning in the 2006 Congressional campaigns, to gerrymander the boundaries of “the politics of personal destruction” to include references to a candidate’s health history.
Does Dick Cheney have the heart for a presidential bid?
A brief item in the newspaper trade magazine Editor & Publisher alerts the nation to the possibility of a Dick Cheney presidency.
E&P quotes Bob Woodward, speaking on Chris Matthews’ Sunday talkie, as saying that the increasingly crowded GOP presidential field might inspire the current president to ask, “ ‘What about Dick?’ ” (Presumably this was not a reference to anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley or outgoing member of the FDA’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs, David Hager.)
Woodward, E&P says, went on to dismiss the field of current known GOP hopefuls, among whom are counted Senators Bill Frist, George Allen, Sam Brownback and John McCain, by commenting that “there’s a serious vacuum right now.”
The notion that Cheney could be somehow inserted into that vacuum is not, notes E&P, unimaginable.
One likely warning sign of an impending Cheney candicacy might be a Republican attempt, beginning in the 2006 Congressional campaigns, to gerrymander the boundaries of “the politics of personal destruction” to include references to a candidate’s health history.