Diabolical Watch

9:36 pm EST November 1st, 2008 | News | 9 Comments

Is Cheney’s last-minute endorsement of McCain a way for Bush to give the finger to McCain, who he never has liked? If so, brilliant.

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9 Responses to “Diabolical Watch”

  1. Michael says:
    November 1, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Bush had endorsed John just after he was nominated. Do you remember seeing Bush doing a soft shoe dance in front of reporters outside the White House? McCain was late for the press conference that day so Bush was left to entertain the press.

  2. Erik says:
    November 1, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    How bizarre an election is this when the sitting vice president’s endorsement is the kiss of the death?

  3. Jaim says:
    November 1, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    I’m sure the geniuses in the neocon camp are going into “Obama gets elected, we spend the next four years smearing him and further trying to run the economy down the shitter, we elect Palin in 2012!”

    So honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a big fuck you from Cheney.

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    November 2, 2008 at 12:05 am

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  5. PG says:
    November 2, 2008 at 12:11 am

    If the GOP nominates Palin for the presidential slot in 2012, when they have an opportunity to nominate a young, highly religious, very socially conservative, genuinely reformist governor who ALSO can speak in complete sentences (Gov. Jindal of Louisiana, who had headed the state health care system, university system and was undersecretary of the federal Health and Human Services by the age of 30), it would demonstrate that the GOP’s only remaining principle is to appeal to xenophobes who are afraid of people who don’t look like themselves. I cannot think of a single advantage that Palin has over Jindal, except her appearance: she’s an attractive white woman.

    In particular, Jindal probably knows that the First Amendment does not protect public officials from being criticized by the press. This is why Palin’s mistakes are so much more worrying than Biden’s. Biden frequently makes verbal typos, like referring to Article I when he means Article II. Palin, on the other hand, says stuff that betrays an undeniable lack of understanding about the Constitution. Now, I’ve heard Republicans say that Biden should be held to a higher standard because he went to law school and lectures on constitutional law at Widener. But when I ask what they would hold Palin to a high standard of knowledge about, the only reply I get is, “Pipeline construction.”

  6. LiveFreeOrDie08 says:
    November 2, 2008 at 12:29 am

    Why would anyone expect a man who has demonstrated such clear contempt for the Constitution and such a lust for power, to voluntarily cede his hold on power?

    My Spidey-Sense has been SCREAMING for months now about this. Cheney isn’t planning on giving up control. He may be moving out of Washington, but he’s not leaving.

  7. Rieux says:
    November 2, 2008 at 1:50 am

    If this was a stab in the back, I can’t see how it could be on behalf of Bush. When has Cheney ever done anything because it’s what Bush wanted? That theory has the cause and effect backwards.

    Now, if CHENEY and McCain have never gotten along (I have no idea whether that’s true), then the revenge hypothesis makes a little more sense.

  8. jr says:
    November 2, 2008 at 2:08 am

    the junta is bipolar. On the same weekend they swiftboat Obama’s aunt and give McCain the kiss of unitary executive theory death

  9. PG says:
    November 2, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    Gotta love it: the Republican brand is so toxic, instead of promoting Cheney’s endorsement of McCain, the RNC is using statements from Hillary Clinton to endorse McCain and criticize Obama. Also, the Pennsylvania GOP, the folks who brought you “Obama will bring about a 2nd Holocaust,” have decided to Go There with robocalls about Rev. Wright.

    In a silver lining way, it’s kind of nice, after all these years of McCain’s jokes about Mrs. Clinton’s being an ugly lesbian, to see the RNC suddenly discovering that she’s worth listening to. Also Republicans’ discovery of the phenomenon of sexism, now that they’re running a woman. I wonder if they’ll run a person of color someday and discover racism; I guess we saw some of that already when Jindal lost his first race in Louisiana and the folks at National Review were convinced it was due to racists who wouldn’t vote for a brown guy. (I guess all those racists in America have since become color-blind and no longer are something to worry about.)