If Only...
Boy, do I wish Dick Cheney would/could run for President. He would be awesome. Rush has a montage of his answers to Larry King, they are classic Cheney.
JASmius adds: Which is precisely why Dick Cheney could never get elected president. His personality is of a different era. He's a manly-man in a feminized age, a guy who tells you what he thinks without euphemism or artifice in a time of political hyper-correctness and public relations sanitization. He's a father figure for a motherized nation.
For a few years after 9/11, We, The People remembered our need for that kind of genuine leadership. But its very success has been its biggest weakness. Too much time has passed, and we've all forgotten how it felt that day to see the twin towers collapse and the Pentagon burn. In our time of distress we turned to true giants like Big Time and Dubya, but now we've returned to our cultural Lilliput, and hacked Bush down to a carbonized husk of what he used to be.
But Cheney remains - immutable and indominable.
He's like what they say about old men - he's got nothing to lose by blunt honesty, and he rather enjoys it to boot.
He would indeed be an awesome president. But that could only happen in times a lot darker than these (remember the circumstances of Ronald Reagan's 1980 triumph).
How ironic that those times are already on their way.
JASmius adds: Which is precisely why Dick Cheney could never get elected president. His personality is of a different era. He's a manly-man in a feminized age, a guy who tells you what he thinks without euphemism or artifice in a time of political hyper-correctness and public relations sanitization. He's a father figure for a motherized nation.
For a few years after 9/11, We, The People remembered our need for that kind of genuine leadership. But its very success has been its biggest weakness. Too much time has passed, and we've all forgotten how it felt that day to see the twin towers collapse and the Pentagon burn. In our time of distress we turned to true giants like Big Time and Dubya, but now we've returned to our cultural Lilliput, and hacked Bush down to a carbonized husk of what he used to be.
But Cheney remains - immutable and indominable.
He's like what they say about old men - he's got nothing to lose by blunt honesty, and he rather enjoys it to boot.
He would indeed be an awesome president. But that could only happen in times a lot darker than these (remember the circumstances of Ronald Reagan's 1980 triumph).
How ironic that those times are already on their way.
posted by Jennifer at 1:06 AM
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