Cheney / Palin in 2012: Dream ticket

Dick Cheney. Presidential front-runner in 2012?

Dick Cheney has finally done enough major television talk shows that he is suddenly considered a viable candidate for president in 2012. He qualifies as a “Republican’s Republican” with his hawkish attitudes, his bully complex, and his total disdain for an individual’s Constitutional right to privacy. He has accused President Barack Obama of weakening the strength of the United States by banning torture and risking our nation’s security by closing Guantanamo Bay.

Three days ago Dick Cheney accused the Obama Administration of privileged vacationing while Attorney General Eric Holder reversed the President’s earlier stated policy of not wanting to “look back.” In other words, according to Cheney, while Obama is playing celebrity at Martha’s Vineyard, the renegade Holder, DOJ Chief, is risking American lives by investigating CIA personnel who might have gone beyond even Cheney’s stacked deck of legal policies way back when Cheney was Vice President.

Dick Cheney said on Sunday:

"President Obama's decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the CIA to the White House, serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this administration's ability to be responsible for our nation's security,"

Speaking with such empathy Dick Cheney said somberly:

“Now we've got a political appointee coming back, and supposedly without the approval of the president, going to do a complete review, or another complete investigation, possible prosecution of CIA personnel. We could talk the whole program about the negative consequences of that, about the terrible precedent it sets, to have agents involved, CIA personnel involved, in a difficult program that's approved by the Justice Department, approved by the National Security Council, and the Bush administration, and then when a new administration comes in, it becomes political.

They may find themselves dragged up before a grand jury, have to hire attorneys on their own because the Justice Department won't provide them with counsel.

It's a terrible, terrible precedent."

The message is, “Dick Cheney cares” about “them.” “They” may even face prosecution. “They” were just following orders while involved in a “difficult” program “approved by the National Security Council, and the Bush administration.” So then doesn’t “They” become “We” when he publicly admits that the White House approved the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques”, known by the rest of the civilized world as “torture”. Then, since Dick Cheney was an integral part of the aforementioned Bush Administration, as in “I give the orders around here,” then doesn’t “We” become “I”? As in “I, Dick Cheney, do solemnly swear…”

And then even in Dick’s interview, “We” and "me" becomes one:

I guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me, frankly, Chris, is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from Al Qaeda.

In the Wall Street Journal.com Op-Ed piece, James Taranto lends credence by publication, to the dangerous “I told you so.” bet that Cheney and the Republican party are willing to make. It’s an expensive bet if you have to pay, because you pay with human lives. But at this point “they” will do almost anything to gain political points, even if it almost invites terrorists to help "me" Dick Cheney get elected. “They” would do almost anything to salvage and right the damaged ship, that is the GOP. It is listing far to the right, after it sprung so many leaks during that horrible autumn of 2009.

And then Dick Cheney the chess master shows his true face. It is conceivable, that sometime in the not so distant future, the United States itself or interests of the U.S. abroad could be attacked by a terrorist. If “god forbid” we were attacked, it would prove that Dick Cheney was right.

Case in point: Dick Cheney has managed to convince at least one writer from a  major newspaper, that unless we continue to break our own laws, break international laws of war, and break all the applicable international conventions we’ve agreed to, and unless we break every principle of civilized government to which we profess, we will be attacked. And then it will be Obama’s fault, not Dick’s fault, Obama’s.

And that’s the beauty of Dick’s bet, no matter how far into the future the attack is Dick wins. Dick Cheney has set a perfect media trap based on the hope that the attack on the U.S. comes quick enough to help launch Cheney’s 2012 presidential campaign. Dick Cheney has played this move with skill.

One would hope that Dick Cheney really doesn’t want anybody to kill Americans for his mere political gain. But based on his past hawkish record, history hints that he wouldn’t be opposed to making a few bucks or gaining some more power at the expense of a few “heroes” lives. Cheney loves the fruits of war and judging by his chess-like moves, he would be likely to use war again to serve his individual purpose. That’s why he laid the bet.

If the attack came just before the primaries Dick Cheney could spring the trap, blame Obama, and “Checkmate.” He could glide through the primaries, especially if he could convince a defeated Sarah Palin to run on the ticket with him. That would get Dick a connection to the Right-Wing and conservative female base voters. Dick and Sarah would be locked and loaded all through the campaign, and after running on national security and the Second Amendment, victorious they could march up Capitol Hill and into the White House. And then suddenly, it all comes crashing down.

Suddenly you remember something totally liberal about Dick Cheney, something that doesn’t sit well with the base because the Bible told them so. You remember that Dick Cheney is for same-sex marriage. Dick Cheney thinks that state governments should have the right to decide if they want to permit gay marriages in their state, maybe even right next door.

Ouch! That hurts! Dick Cheney, suddenly comes off as a “same-sex marriage Liberal.”

It’s really a shame too, because the same-sex marriage issue would most likely offend the devout Sarah Palin and put her in an impossible situation. She could never stand campaigning with someone who supports same-sex fornication. And where Sarah goes, goes the Far Right Republican base, and all because of his “Neocon” attitudes. To win in 2012, he would need every Republican he could get and losing the base would put the nail in the coffin; and all because he thinks two people of the same sex should be allowed to be married, and live together like “man and wife,” and maybe even live right next door.

Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin in 2012 would have been the dream ticket, too bad about that one little thing, otherwise, they would have had a hell of run.

"Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army"

Photo Credit: Sgt. Jim Wilt.

Vice President Dick Cheney speaks with Silver Star recipient Spc. Monica Brown and her brother, Spc. Justin Brown, following an award ceremony at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 20.

Cheney quotes: Raw Data: Fox News.com