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Speculation: Cheney will step down as VP
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| MisterOpus1 |
I know this rumor has been running around for some time, but I'm interested in your comments. Here's a story that gives a couple of speculative points:
http://www.hillnews.com/eisele/051904.aspx
| quote: | There are two other reasons I’m betting there won’t be a Bush-Cheney ticket this fall. One was a little-noticed report in the Federicksburg (Va.) Free Lance Star on April 16 that Cheney was taken to the Culpeper Regional Hospital on April 5 from a nearby secret undisclosed location, just before leaving for Asia. When reporter Donnie Johnston asked Culpeper County Sheriff Lee Hart about the report, he said, “We had some knowledge.”
But when questioned further, Hart told Johnston he couldn’t say more until he made a telephone call. Less than two minutes later, Hart called back to say, “We had no knowledge of the incident.”
I asked Johnston, who lives in Culpeper, about his story, which Cheney’s office refused to comment on. “I could get no official confirmation,” he said, “but unofficially, I was told by three different sources that Cheney was there under an assumed name. That’s why the hospital said they had no record of his being there.”
The second reason is that Cheney’s defibrillator, made by Medtronic of Minneapolis, may be nearing the end of its average life expectancy of about five years. An earlier model was recalled in 1999 because of faulty capacitors, according to Medtronic spokesman Scott Papillon, who said the problem was corrected in Cheney’s newer model. |
If there's one thing I'll credit Bush for, it's his loyalty to his staff and friends. Of course he follows that loyalty to a fault, but he is quite steadfast when it comes to his staff. Do other Republicans feel Cheney is becoming a liability? Cheney's poll numbers have not ever been very stellar either, so should he give up his position?
And if he does decide to retire, whom would you conservatives believe to be a good running mate for Bush?
This is all speculation, of course. |
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| Shakka |
| I have a feeling Bush will try to keep Cheney if for no other reason than to prevent a media field day. If he were to step down as VP I would assume he'd use his health/heart condition as the main reason. If he did step down, I'd love to see a guy like Colin Powell step up, though Powell is very unlikely to do something like that. |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shakka
I have a feeling Bush will try to keep Cheney if for no other reason than to prevent a media field day. If he were to step down as VP I would assume he'd use his health/heart condition as the main reason. If he did step down, I'd love to see a guy like Colin Powell step up, though Powell is very unlikely to do something like that. |
I actually think Powell could do a great service for this Admin. if such a move were to happen. I agree it wouldn't be very realistic (in my hypothetical scenario), mainly because it just doesn't appear that Bush has listened much to Powell's moderate stance on foreign policies, and has unfortunately been more in lockstep with the neocons.
I would actually have a little more hope for us if Bush becomes re-elected with Powell as VP. It would be a good yin-yang balance, kinda. |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
I would actually have a little more hope for us if Bush becomes re-elected with Powell as VP. It would be a good yin-yang balance, kinda. |
Mostly... |
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| xKaoSx |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
I actually think Powell could do a great service for this Admin. if such a move were to happen. I agree it wouldn't be very realistic (in my hypothetical scenario), mainly because it just doesn't appear that Bush has listened much to Powell's moderate stance on foreign policies, and has unfortunately been more in lockstep with the neocons.
I would actually have a little more hope for us if Bush becomes re-elected with Powell as VP. It would be a good yin-yang balance, kinda. |
(looks at his avatar) :nervous:
So who are the two balls then? |
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| slIpitUpnglIde |
Yeah, that's what I heard, and I also heard that old Jeb will be stepping up to the plate. Exciting, huh?:clown:
Eek! I'm surrounded by Bushes!:nervous: |
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| Q5echo |
Jeb is still being groomed. Not sure how that will turn out.
Rudy Guliani would be my choice, but it’s a long shot. He’s making tons of money as a
civilian, and I think he has his eye on hilary’s seat in the senate.
We’ll see. |
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| MisterOpus1 |
You see, this is why I like McCain. Putting loudmouth Hastert in his place. Hastert had the gall to lecture McCain on war?
'em up John!
| quote: | Hastert Lectures McCain on War, Sacrifice
Wed May 19, 7:15 PM ET Add Politics - AP to My Yahoo!
By MARY DALRYMPLE, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Growing tensions between House and Senate Republicans over the war in Iraq (news - web sites), abuse of Iraqi prisoners, tax cuts and budget deficits erupted Wednesday with House Speaker Dennis Hastert lecturing former POW and Arizona Sen. John McCain about sacrifice and war.
McCain, who spent five years in a North Vietnamese prison, excoriated fellow Republicans on Tuesday for pushing more tax cuts while U.S. troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites).
"Throughout our history, wartime has been a time of sacrifice. ... What have we sacrificed?" McCain said. "As mind-boggling as expanding Medicare has been, nothing tops my confusion for cutting taxes during wartime. I don't remember ever in the history of warfare when we cut taxes."
Asked Wednesday about McCain's remarks, Hastert, who was rejected for military service because of a bad shoulder, first joked: "Who? Where's he from? A Republican?"
Then, more seriously, he said: "If you want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda (two Washington area military hospitals). There's the sacrifice in this country. We're trying to make sure that they have the ability to fight this war, that they have the wherewithal to be able to do it. And at the same time, we have to react to keep this country strong not only militarily but economically. We want to be able to have the flexibility to do it. That's my reply to John McCain."
McCain stood fast in his reply to Hastert.
"The speaker is correct in that nothing we are called upon to do comes close to matching the heroism of our troops," he said. "All we're called upon to do is not spend our nation into bankruptcy while our soldiers risk their lives. I fondly remember a time when real Republicans stood for fiscal responsibility."
The conflict erupted as Hastert laid down a budget making it easier to pass future tax cuts regardless of their impact on the federal deficit. McCain and a group of GOP moderates in the Senate want to rein in deficits by making tax cuts harder.
Later, Hastert spokesman John Feehery said the speaker "values Sen. McCain's military service, but he disagrees with him on tax relief."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../hastert_mccain |
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