Dick Cheney For President

Ezra Klein points to a New York Sun op-ed urging Dick Cheney to run for President. They main reasoning is that Cheney can defend the Bush record on the campaign trail. The funny thing is Cheney hasn't been able to do that as Vice-President. Watch his interview with softball thrower Wolf Blitzer.



What the Sun editorial board doesn't want people to remember is they not-so-secretly heart Cheney.

Mr. Cheney has said he wants to go fly-fishing when his second term as vice president is over, rejecting the idea of running for president himself. But he smiled a broad grin at the end of the session when the vice president and managing editor of the Sun suggested that Governor Jeb Bush of Florida might make a strong vice presidential candidate in 2008, and presented Mr. Cheney with a baseball cap that read "Cheney-Bush 2008," with Bush in much smaller-sized type than Cheney. "I'm not going to wear it," the vice president vowed, then said, "I appreciate it. I might wear it into the Oval Office."

The fire and brimestone conservatives are convinced that the reason Bush and Cheney have low approval ratings is because people don't understand their policy goals through the evil liberal media. The White House's real problem is that after the Iraq war, a record deficit, Katrina and Social Security is that the public is very well aware that these people have terrible ideas.