Dick Cheney: Our Willing Punching Bag


Just a quick (for me) thought to say simply, I like Dick Cheney. When the typically laconic Wyoming “cowboy” does speak, liberals fear to argue directly with him. He’s direct, to the point, and able to cut through the fog of doublespeak and eviscerate the two-faced. The worst thing he ever did is shoot his partner, but under the context of bird hunting, this is simply not as much as a faux-pas as one might think.

I’ll just put it out there: I shot my bird-hunting partner once. We were dove-hunting in some heavy mesquite-bush junk in SE California. We were both working in the same direction, about 70 yards apart, both shooting 12ga. Wingmasters, when a low-flying bullet (a dove) came whistling from behind and right between us. At some point in dove hunting, since the birds don’t follow that gentlemanly “BS” that Ruark’s bobwhites did, your shooting becomes instinctive, and this time was no different. I just happened to jump the bird before my friend did. I tracked the bird, about 20 feet above the ground, and shot. It was a good shot, and I couldn’t see anyone else at the time, but it turned out that one of the #7 1/2 shot flew out of the pattern and caught my partner under the eye. I was freaking out- he was quite a bit more circumspect. “You were hunting… really hunting. That’s just the way it is.” Ok, so Dick, by comparison, was hunting quail, but, if I recall, they were TEXAS quail: bigger and more ornery!

I can easily see Dick Cheney being that focused on the hunt. It happens, and he felt badly, but that’s just the way it is. What I feel badly about is that our former V.P. has to come out of the open country of Wyoming to deal with all this moronic drivel being created behind his back. I sure hope he’s training some protoge’ somewhere- losing Cheney’s insightful, keen perspective in the political world is akin to losing Buckley in the conservative, apologetic world. Dick Cheney is a good man. That’s a rarity in and of itself.

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Dick Cheney appeared in my dream last night.

Flagstaff Monday, July 20th at 1:44AM EDT (link)

Cheering throngs were responding to his speech at a Republican convention. Hundreds of thousands of people. Obama-like. I woke up hoping he’d decide to run.

This is not made up. If he had chosen Sarah as a VP, we might have had a chance last year.

Pluto, the Ninth Planet - Forever!

Not Sarah. Liz. nt

mbecker908 Monday, July 20th at 11:42PM EDT (link)

CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.

I thought I saw something on Liz speculating on running in 2012 on the Washington Times website nt

Richard Mullins Monday, July 20th at 11:53PM EDT (link)

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Richard, all Liz really said in that WT article

TNJim Tuesday, July 21st at 2:07AM EDT (link)

was that running for office was something she “very well may do.” She didn’t say for sure when, just that is on her horizon.

Here’s the article, with an audio clip. Right now, she says raising her 5 kids and helping her father write hie memoirs are her immediate interests.

In the clip, the WT reporters ask her about running for office around a minute and a half, maybe 2 minutes from the end.

“No. You can’t” -Moe Lane

I know that but I need to make myself feel better nt

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It wasn't that kind of dream. nt

Flagstaff Tuesday, July 21st at 2:01AM EDT (link)

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Cheney has a protege, alright

WilliamPennybanks Monday, July 20th at 8:46AM EDT (link)

She has the same ability to put liberals in their place and even the same last name. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed seeing Dick Cheney make more public comments in the last 7 months than he seemingly did during the entire Bush years. Of course, I always knew he had it in him. The real pleasant surprise has been the emergence (and potential for elected office in her own right) of Liz Cheney.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Yes, as long as we have a Cheney in reserve,

janis Monday, July 20th at 8:54AM EDT (link)

we still have hope for this country. Other than his mighty mustache, do we know if John Bolton has any other family members who might take up the mantle as well?

Yes, she already has "name recognition"

penguin2 Monday, July 20th at 9:26AM EDT (link)

Something the RNSC seems to think is so important in electability re. Crist v. Rubio. I’d like to show them!

And I like John Bolton, one smart guy and he got a raw deal. Why didn’t our side fight harder?

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

 
 
 

Willing Punching Bag...

wordsarepower Monday, July 20th at 1:23PM EDT (link)

I like that, and I like Dick Cheney. When he speaks people listen…that’s why the Lefties don’t like him.

 

And Bolton too....

dratpatrol Monday, July 20th at 11:38PM EDT (link)

Bolton is an amazing guy, I agree. What I find disconcerting is just how successful he was as ambassador to the U.N. by using the direct, put ‘em out on front street method, and how hard everyone except Fox tried to make him look like an out-of-control nutcase! Why is it that detractors refuse to concede when the facts stare them in the face?
Liz Cheney, on the other hand, would have trouble, for instance, representing my “Pro-family/ No special rights for gays” conservative perspective.

 

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