chuckwoww Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I think the thing with Dead-eye Dick is his total disdain for what he sees as the anti-American, lefty, liberal media. He just can't deal with it so he ignores it, which of course just drives reporters crazy. The question is how does this attitude play with GOP voters? My guess is they mostly agree with Dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCgringo Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 yeah I am sure the NRA loves this publicity, but yes most GOP voters are with Bush/Cheney, but with the last elections so close, a 1-2% change would mean that Hillary will be Prez ! Who will be under her desk not OC.... OC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I love that word. Dickaquiddick ! I also like this piece...makes some good observations. And anything mentioning Chappaquiddick or Ted Kennedy makes Neo-Con heads implode. I like that too! :up: Heheheheheheh... Cheers, SD ++++++++++ After trying to get me to say that Cheney and Pamela Willeford had an affair (which I wouldn't - I stick with what I know), Tucker Carlson confronted me on "The Situation" tonight about the fact that Willeford's husband was apparently on the ranch at the time of the incident. It seems that he and others think that my comparison of the Whittington shooting and Chappaquiddick must be all about sex. That, and the fact that my opening paragraph reciting the facts (as we knew them yesterday morning) included the fact that Cheney and Whittington were with two women to whom they're not married. Did it look suspicious to me that these four were together? Sure - I admit it. All the secrecy and evasion about the event, and about who was there, couldn't help but raise suspicions. But if the facts show that there was no funny business between Cheney and either of the women, that's fine with me. This Administration has already generated so many scandals it's exceeded my absorptive capacity. There were more important factors than sex behind my Chappaquiddick analogy. Here are some of the "C" (for Chappaquiddick) factors in the Cheney shooting: 1. Someone with a documented history of drinking problems causes a serious accident, and then avoids the authorities for a period of time - one that happens to be long enough to get the alcohol out of his system. 2. The first stories of the accident are confusing and self-contradictory. (In this case, since Cheney didn't speak himself, the most glaring inconsistencies are Armstrong's. Specifically, she - and now Cheney - describe her as an eyewitness, although she told the Associated Press she thought at first Cheney had suffered a heart attack. That would mean she never saw the shooting.) 3. A powerful figure holds himself out as being above the law, and - at least for a time - appears to get away with it. 4. When the powerful person finally speaks, allegedly to 'come clean,' there are still inconsistencies and glaring contradictions in his story. It's about power, drinking, irresponsibility, and dishonesty. If there was no romance going on, the issues are still the same. As the song says: What's love got to do with it? I had a little off-the-air discussion with Tucker about whether this story is important. He, along with many conservatives and a few liberals, have said it's been overblown. I disagree. I think conservatives got one thing right during the Clinton years: Character matters. Not as in "let's spend $40 million to investigate a sex act," but as in: Are the people running the country honest? Will they lie to officers of the law? Break the rules? Mislead the public? And - most critically in this case - is someone with an active drinking problem helping to lead the most powerful nation on earth? I don't know all the answers, but I consider them damned good questions. It's time the press took them more seriously. _________________ The suggestion's also been made that I and others are trafficking in "unfounded allegations." Unfortunately, it's the local Sheriff's Office and the national media that have been caught trafficking in unfounded allegations. On Cheney's say-so alone, the Sheriff's Office issued a report saying no drinking was involved in the incident. Now the Vice President allows that he had "one beer" a few hours earlier. One is not none - meaning that by Cheney's word alone the Sheriff's report is wrong. (And we just have his word about the "one beer" - that being one of the liquored-up world's most notoriously untrustworthy phrases.) As Talk Left has reported, the Kleberg County DA says he may have to convene a Grand Jury should Mr. Whittington die. What would he have for an accident report now, should that unfortunate need arise? He'd have a partially discredited work product from investigators who didn't see the shooter until the next day. As for the media, they repeated the words "pepper" and "spray" so much it sounded like they were ordering a steak salad at the Ivy. That, and "superficial wounds" - until the heart attack, that is. They insisted that no drinking was involved, too - but today the Vice President said otherwise. Now we have Cheney's Brit Hume interview. Have our questions been answered? About as much as the questions about Ted Kennedy were answered when he first described the swimming he did that night. To be fair, Hume was a little tougher than I - and probably Cheney - expected. Yet he never asked him the most critical question of all: Why the delay in meeting with law enforcement? Tucker wanted to know if I regretted the Chappaquiddick analogy, now that they've said that the Ambassador's husband was in town. My answer: I regret that there's been so much evasion, deception, and covering up over this incident that any of us have been forced to collect the facts on our own. America deserves better from its leaders. And I regret bringing up painful memories for the Kennedy and Kopechne families. Ted Kennedy eventually came clean on his accident, and by all reports he's straightened his life out. All of our leaders should do the same. It's about character. It matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 OCgringo said: a 1-2% change would mean that Hillary will be Prez ! Who will be under her desk not OC.... OC Every rich democrat in New York that's who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 chuckwoww said: OCgringo said: a 1-2% change would mean that Hillary will be Prez ! Who will be under her desk not OC.... OC Every rich democrat in New York that's who. Man, if she were on the ballot, I wouuld write in "Mickey Mouse" or "Elvis" for president. She is so worthless -- no stance on anything. Being a leader is not a popularity contest (or at least it shouldn't be about that). Gimme a woman with "balls" like Boxer, then we can talk about a female prez. I'll be supporting Wes Clark for the Dems. No, I do not agree with all his positions, but enough of them, and he can win. And that's a start. Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 One beer sure....what about the hip flask? Takes a few hours to go through the system. That's what those guys do for fun....get drunk and blow up tame birds. They need to unwind like everybody else...they just can't risk getting caught in Bangkok. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Hi guys, Cheney has increased his popularity since it was public that it was a lawyer he had shot. Some say now that if he can shoot one more (lawyer) before next election he will be the new president. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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