Ask What Cheney Has Done For Our Country...

As Well As What Our Country Has Done for Cheney

again last week we had to confront the approaching inevitability of a future with no dick.


were dick cheney able to devise a workaround for evading mortality, i'm positive he'd keep kickin it here til the galaxy's final light was extinguished.  absent that, he--like each of us--continues moving forward into the past.

immediately after he's no longer around, we'll find ourselves amidst an emotional maelstrom far more intense than last week's.  overwhelmed by sturm und drang mit scheisse,  will not hysterical blathering totally trump considered opinion and rational analysis depriving us one and all of at least one unintended benefit arising from cheney's demise. 

it's my hope we can have another sorta dick conversation.  in this one, we all come away better informed and, possibly even somewhat a tiny bit less aggressively contentious overall.

in that spirit i invite anyone and everyone willing to offer insight or provide answers to one or more of the following

does dick cheney qualify as an outstanding conservative...an outstanding republican...and human being?  If so, why? .

 

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Boring.

So boring, bored as I am, I'm too bored to bother.

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o boring, bored as I am, I'm too bored to bother.

that's a relief.

this one took me 9.5 hours from concept to completion--mostly cuz i kept nodding off (a distinctly different state than 'nodding out') and i was just gonna browse back by this diagnose yourself site where i'd been earlier running a battery of tests on myself and already ruled out everything BUT iron deficiency anemia (also known by its scientific name: 'tired blood'), sleeping sickness or narcolepsy.

 

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apparently my condition is deteriorating rapidly.  last thing i can recall after hitting the submit button was watching that lil animated thing spin around and around and around.   hours later after falling outta my chair i discovered someone musta snuck in and clicked the button again while i was out cold,

 

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I'm not a cheerleader for Cheney, but he isn't afraid to speak his mind, which drives liberals nuts.  Oh, and did I mention Cheney drives liberals nuts, which is enough for anyone to like him.

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Sounds like someone has a little dick envy.  Do you like the Army of Dick (Dick Army?)  Was senator Byrd a good liberal? West Virginia was at the bottom or near the bottom of wealth and income of States during his entire long term.  Does that make a liberal good?

Even better, Al Gore is a good liberal! Does Al Gore qualify as an outstanding liberal...an outstanding democrat...and human being?  If so, why?

As for Cheney, I agree with Nitro. I would also add that I didn't agree with everything that Bush or he did.

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he isn't afraid to speak his mind, which drives liberals nuts.

Because he never makes sense.

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...and while we are discussing old history... damn that Zachary Taylor....he totally ruined the Whig party.

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Cheney drives liberals nuts, which is enough for anyone to like him.

Because he never makes sense.

Case in point well made ID.

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does dick cheney qualify as an outstanding conservative

Can't say for sure, never really tried to get to know the guy.

an outstanding republican

If by that you mean standing out then I would say yes considering you wrote not 1 but 2 articles about him, especially when your appearances on JU are almost about as often as New Year Day comes around.

and human being

Well based on the definition of "human being" I would have to say yes as well unless this definition has been changed and I don't know about it.

I'm not a cheerleader for Cheney, but he isn't afraid to speak his mind, which drives liberals nuts. Oh, and did I mention Cheney drives liberals nuts, which is enough for anyone to like him.

When articles like these are created about people who, according to Democrats, are not threats (like Sarah Palin), makes you wonder why do they fear that which does not, supposedly, threaten them.

Sounds like someone has a little dick envy

Sounds about right. He seems to like Dick *_* since he has 2 articles in a row about Dick.

Because he never makes sense.

What you are really trying to say is that you are incapable of understanding him. See how easy your own words can be used against you?

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A little early to start eulogizing Cheney.... tacky stuff buddy... real tacky.

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did I mention Cheney drives liberals nuts, which is enough for anyone to like him.

that's the conservative acid test these days? 

good thing all the old school authentic practitioners passed before that became the standard.

it goes a long way to explain sarah palin's poll numbers and how boehner made it to the top (although, in his case, ya gotta wonder if flaunting liberal warnings about using sun screen is gonna seem like such a good idea when he has to have a face removed from his melanoma), 

 

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Sounds like someone has a little dick envy.

little dick?  what's to envy? is that some kinda fetish thing?

 
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Was senator Byrd a good liberal? West Virginia was at the bottom or near the bottom of wealth and income of States during his entire long term. Does that make a liberal good?

Even better, Al Gore is a good liberal! Does Al Gore qualify as an outstanding liberal...an outstanding democrat...and human being? If so, why?

As for Cheney, I agree with Nitro. I would also add that I didn't agree with everything that Bush or he did.

so, to summarize, you're either unable or unwilling to offer an opinion other than nitro's (which seems to have been posted subsequent to yours--pretty impressive demonstration of psychic powers).

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...and while we are discussing old history... damn that Zachary Taylor....he totally ruined the Whig party.

what's grey, has four legs and a trunk?

irrelevant?  irright.

(you may or may not know this but you're speaking for two; when you slack, thepeoplesparty don't know what to think)

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Can't say for sure, never really tried to get to know the guy.

too bad.  i hear he's just a blast as a hunting partner.

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A little early to start eulogizing Cheney.... tacky stuff buddy... real tacky.

i come not to bury cheney but to engage those who praise him. 

the evil that men do lives after them. 

the good is oft interred with their bones. 

why let it be so with cheney?

hath scooter said he was ambitious?

(scooter is an honorable man--for a convict--

so are they all; all honorable men.)

 

 

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First, Cheney doesn't represent the all of conservatives.  Just like Al Gore doesn't represent all Democrates or Greenies.  Second, I did give a response.  I don't know, is it a fetish?

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kingbee, Cheney is looking for a new hunting partner. You should call him, it would be a real blast. }:)

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too bad. i hear he's just a blast as a hunting partner.

"believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see", I think you should go hunting with him to be sure. Wouldn't want anyone to think you can't back up your comments you know.

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Cheney doesn't represent the all of conservatives

it's extremely rare for one person to represent all of anything except, perhaps, an organization he or she founded and controls completely.  

ask me, cheney is just one more faux conservative opportunist exploiting a huge group of people who've been bamboozled--whether by others or themselves--into something identical to conservatives from the notorious bizarro planet of superman comic fame.

 

 

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ask me, Obama is just one more faux ultra progressive liberal opportunist exploiting a huge group of people who've been bamboozled--whether by others or themselves--into something identical to liberals from the notorious bizarro planet of superman comic fame.

Interesting, how this can work both ways, you lepton!

Obama fits way better into your sentence than does Cheney.  Considering that all the change that he is bringing and promised is bringing a greater feeling of hopelessness.  You could look at the up and coming elections to show that people strongely feel that they were taken advantage of and are now turning the tables.  Which shows that some people but not all as we can see here are welling to stop being neonates. 

Finally, being Conservative does not just mean Republican there are some Democrates who are conservative.   Dick Morris being one.  This is also in line and meets with your dick fetish.

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ask me, cheney is just one more faux conservative opportunist exploiting a huge group of people who've been bamboozled--whether by others or themselves--into something identical to conservatives from the notorious bizarro planet of superman comic fame.

Do liberals still fear him that much? I've not seen Cheney speak on behalf of anyone but himself. He's been out of office for two years, and isn't exactly in the news each week. Cheney was probably on of the most behind the scenes VP's in recent history. Liberals are now feeding his perceived power and influence. Hate will do that. Seems your a mighty contributer KB.

But let's look at the flip side. You have Bill Clinton, very much involved in active politics (Sestak scandal, the Romanoff and Lincoln support, against the white house's candidates to name a few). It may be for future Hillary support, who knows (or cares). Then you have agenda driven Jimmy Carter. He might as well be a Hamas official. He couldn't stop flapping his gums enough during the Bush years, probably in hopes of him taking away his title as "a complete failure as a president" (I believe his record is still safe). At any rate he has become a parody of himself and not too many pay him much mind. Gore? What cred does the "sex poodle" have now? Enough said.

Could it be you just don't know Dick? ;)

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while i'm sure evading or ignoring my questions by wandering off-topic to pose your own is way more fun than the alternative, it serves neither of us well while more intensely piquing my curiosity. 

perhaps i'm at fault here.  i'll readily admit to overestimating my readership (something i do innately much to the chagrin of clients who've convinced  themselves that  their target markets consist almost entirely of disconnected morons who are either illiterate or burdened by an attention span inferior to that of an igneous rock so any text presented to them must consist of simple 6-word max statements).  while i couldn't disagree more, i'm sufficiently flexible to make this easier on you by combining my original three questions into a single, much simpler query (with apologies to current tv's weekly 'infomania' feature, specifically the 'we got you covered" magazine review segment which concludes with a presentation of the most bizarre viewer submitted publication as their official 'how the *@%#' is this a magazine?' selection).  

so...just how the *@%# is cheney a conservative? 

(also, while i truly do appreciate your concern for what you assume to be fear that cheney might once more be elected or appointed to  government, you're mistaken; fact is i'd happily welcome that news.  in a conversation sometime in 2006 or 2007 here with diawa i let hope get the best of me and gleefully speculated dick was absolutely certain to take a run at the presidency, if for no other reason than he kept denying he'd do so; i was really bummed when it didn't happen.)  

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Could it be you just don't know Dick?

based on the non-responses received so far, yall seem somewhat reluctant to offer an opinion. i'm wondering now if that's because the bush campaign jammed dick down your throat for 8 years and you either really miss it badly or??