Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Cheney in Washington Post

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 7/4/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Vern Green wrote:
>
> > This is all idle conjecture at this point. I would surprised if Thompson
> > would even consider doing this. The man is in second place behind
> > Guiliani and has not even officially announced his candidacy.
>
> So you think that he might believe that being Vice President would hurt
> his chances at winning the Presidency?

I'm not sure being *Bush's* vice-president would be very valuable,
because Bush's popularity is extremely low overall and even
surprisingly low among Republicans (last I saw, I believe he was under
60% approval among Republicans in one poll.)

That said, there is a lot of inside-the-beltway talk about ditching
Cheney, who combines being spectacularly unpopular with amazingly
strong influence and having a truly horrible track record in providing
counsel. The man apparently really *does* think we should
pre-emptively attack Iran *and* that this will solve all of our
problems in the Mid-East. We have not yet to this date ever had a
systematic problem with the military obeying orders from their
civilian commanders, but ordering something like this could change
that.

jking

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