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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Kristol floats Dick Cheney as “the most promising” of possible 2016 GOP candidates
Maybe he can win the zombie vote?
Appearing on ABCs This Week, frequent panelist and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol tossed out the name of former Vice President Dick Cheney as a possible contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
Prompted by host George Stephanopoulous to name the most promising Republican candidate not in the race yet, panel members named Jeb Bush who has yet to announce with Democratic strategist Donna Brazile suggesting 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney.
You know, I go back to Mitt Romney. I mean, look, you dont like old faces, but you know what, he did run a good game last time, Brazille said.
After talk show host Tavis Smiley suggested South Dakota Senator John Thune, a smirking Kristol suggested the former vice president.
If they get to nominate Hillary Clinton, why dont we get to nominate Dick Cheney? I mean, he has a much
he has a much better record, Kistol said as the entire panel burst into laughter.
He has a much better record, Kristol repeated as Smiley mock lamented, God help us all.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/bill-kristol-floats-dick-cheney-as-the-most-promising-of-possible-2016-gop-candidates/
doc03
(35,389 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Good lord, I should love a gig like that. Be wrong every time and still get paid.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I'd fully expect a dry substance to come out of the shower in the morning.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I really need a gig like his. Better than a weather forecaster!
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)1
RealityAdvocate
(106 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Darth Cheney? He should be not just be in the jail, but under the jail somewhere, never to see the light of day until the world can happily grave dance at his passing.
Okay, I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but unfortunately, he's still evil and alive so I feel I'm on fairly safe ground for that war criminal to suffer for his crimes against humanity.
Brother Buzz
(36,479 posts)Oh, that's rich.
onecaliberal
(32,934 posts)Retrograde
(10,165 posts)which would make the inauguration - not to mention campaigning - difficult.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Duh.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)Lots of supporters there.
3catwoman3
(24,072 posts)...of what, exactly?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)I hafta think a Cheney presidency would be a lot like Pol Pot's Cambodia.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)What a waste of two good hearts on this evil man.