Woodward Calls Cheney a 'Serious' Dark Horse for 2008 Run for White House

[jefferson_dem]

:scared: ... :puke:

NEW YORK A trial balloon for a Cheney for President run in 2008 is being launched by a surprising source, Washington Post star reporter (and White House insider) Bob Woodward.

Appearing on Chris Matthews' NBC talk show on Sunday, Woodward labeled Vice President Cheney “a serious dark horse candidate.” He said that with "a number of people" going for the GOP nomination, “a guy named George Bush might come out and say ‘What about Dick?’"

Woodward observed that "there's a serious vacuum right now," with Senators Frist, Brownback, and Allen leading the field, some say.

There may be a precedent for this. Cheney, who was put in charge of finding a suitable VP candidate in 2000, ended up getting the nod himself.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000920885

[deadparrot]

1. I'd rather they run Cheney than McCain.

Cheney is an unappealing candidate, to say the least.

I don't know if even Diebold could fix a race between Cheney and an attractive, charismatic Democrat.

Never say never, of course. But still. :)

[Carla in Ca]

55. Cheney can't run!

3rd terms are still not allowed.

[autorank]

2. "autorank Calls Woodward a Serious Republican Stalking Horse"

What a loser! What a clown. What a MediaWhore

[Melodybe]

12. Woodward is and always has been whore

Poppy was Deep Throat and the NeoCons wanted Nixon gone.

[autorank]

38. Right, I like the "Poppy as Deep Throat" notion. He is a weasel.

Now, hold your breath for a minute, that would create World War III, no Armageddon, in the Republican Party. Priceless!

[ray of light]

3. Well he's already the President now, just doesn't have the title.

Better be saving all these corrupt actions of his and keep really good records of each betrayal. And better start now, reminding people how the corruption is at the TOP and Cheney isn't going to be able to plead as GHB did, "I don't remember...I wasn't involved," because afterall his brain is the only one seen in the Oval office.

[Frances]

4. So the Repubs will have the first candidate

with an openly gay daughter?

And the fundies will criticize any Dem who calls attention to this fact. What hypocrites!

[Old and In the Way]

5. Someone's got to cover for crime syndicate

can't very well give up the reins of power now. Cheney would rather die in office than loose control of the government. Can't take that chance. Never know when someone might start calling for real investigations...

[shanti]

17. how much money

do these fuckers need??????? this is what has me constantly shaking my head!

[intheflow]

6. "Dark Horse" sounds downright sinister with Chaney's name next to it.

They'll never be able to pretend there's anything such thing as compassionate conservatism. That man is the undead. Or a Borg.

:scared: is right!

[Richard Steele]

13. "Darth Horse", perhaps?

[intheflow]

21. ..

:rofl:

[NVMojo]

14. "neocon" dark horse ...really freaking scary.

[sweetheart]

32. got that right

That word "cheney" conjures a whirlpool of evil so dark, and so
filled with hatred, that it floweth over in a wellspring of filth.

Where is buffy the vampire slayer when you need her.!

[davidinalameda]

7. weirder things have happened

but I doubt that VP Dick would run

now Lynn on the other hand, I can see her getting into politics

[bluestateguy]

8. Run Dick Run!

Do it, do it, DO IT!

No charisma, in poor health, an unambiguous chickenhawk (even more than Bush), more baggage than the DFW airport carousel.

[leesa]

10. I think his health's just fine.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

29. It's just fine as long as you don't operate a microwave nearby.

[LiberalFighter]

35. Darn I should had saved my 25 year old microwave

[rzemanfl]

9. What would happen to Cheney if everyone in the country

microwaved popcorn at the same time? Just asking...

[Tesla]

11. You have to firdt have a heart to have problems with one

Wonder if his heart will come with a color-coded warning system??

Everytime Haliburton gets busted taking billions....his code color goes from orange to red.......

[chlamor]

15. When Was The Last Time We Had a President Named DICK

Rummy for VP? Let's Keep it Psychotic.

[shanti]

16. oh please

cheney has the charisma of a wet turd. if they're planning to push him, we should EXPECT diebold to be involved.

oh wait, they already are....:crazy:

[LoKnLoD]

18. Makes Sense

Either Cheney or Jeb Bush will be the next one to run. The neocons and the Project for a New American Century need more time to finish this overthrow of the American Govt and our way of life. Makes no sense to go to all the trouble they have gone to manipulating 9/11, Iraq, stealing 2 elections and soon to be Iran War for just an 8 year run of power. None of these congress critters up in Washington really seem neocon material, no matter how loony/fundamentalist they are.

[dArKeR]

19. On Larry King Live, CNN Asia, Spook Woodward said, "When we go into

Iraq we will find double the weapons of mass destruction to which the Bush Adm. has alluded to. This is the rule not the exception."

It's obvious Whore Woodward is an NSA agent, was used in Watergate, fed and lied info over the years, and used in Iraqgate... as a slut whore.

Why doesn't Franken, Rhodes, Schultz... air this tape of Slut Woodward? Why doesn't Larry Whore King ever question Slut Woodward about this?

I was in Hong Kong at the time but as far as I know Larry King Live should have been the same edition in USA.




+++++++++++++
A Yalie and a Secret Society Member
The staunchly conservative Bob Woodward grew up in Wheaton, Illinois. A good student at Yale, he was ultimately one of fifteen seniors "tapped" for one of that university's secret societies, Book and Snake, a cut below the more infamous Skull and Bones, but the top of the second-tier fraternities. Woodward had his first journalistic experience working for the Banner, a Yale publication. In his 1965 yearbook he was referred to as a "Banner mogul." Havill writes,

Certainly, with the CIA encouraged to recruit on the Yale campus, particularly among history majors and secret societies, it is more than reasonable to assume Bob may have been one of those approached by the agency, or by a military intelligence unit, especially after four years of naval ROTC training. Although it would answer a lot of questions that have been raised about Bob Woodward, at this point one can only speculate as to whether he was offered the chance to become a "double-wallet guy," as CIA agents who have two identities are dubbed. It would certainly be understandable if he decided not to adhere to the straight and accepted the submerged patriotic glamour and extra funds that such a relationship would provide. It would also explain the comments of Pulitzer Prize-winning author J. Anthony Lukas, when he wrote in 1989 that Bob Woodward was "temperamentally secretive, loathe to volunteer information about himself," or the Washingtonian's remarks in 1987: "He is secretive about everything." As Esquire magazine put it, summing up in its 1992 article on Bob, "What is he hiding?"

The "Floating Pentagon" Assignment
Three days after graduating from Yale, Woodward was sent by the U.S. Navy to Norfolk, Virginia, where he was commissioned as an ensign by none other than U.S. Senator George Smathers from Florida. Bob's assignment was to a very special ship, called a "floating Pentagon," the U.S.S. Wright. The ship was a National Emergency Command Ship-a place where a President and cabinet could preside from in the event of a nuclear war. It had elaborate and sophisticated communications and data processing capabilities. It had a smaller replica of the war room at the Pentagon. It ran under what was called SIOP-Single Integrated Operation Plan. For example, in the event of nuclear war, the Wright was third in line to take full command if the two ahead of it, the Strategic Air Command in Omaha (SAC) and NORAD, were rendered incommunicado. Woodward-straightfacedly-told authors Colodny and Gettlin (Silent Coup) that he guessed he was picked for the ship because he had been a radio ham as a kid.

http://www.webcom.com/ctka/pr196-woodward.html

[chlamor]

39. Excellent Post n/t

[Old and In the Way]

42. CIA - Bush - hmmmmm.

Would Bush have recruited Woodward to take down Nixon? It would explain a lot....

[dArKeR]

56. The Bush Crime Family recruited John Hinckley to take out Reagan

http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html

[glitch]

20. Why not? With rigged vote machines they can run karl rove and "win".

Or rummy. Or wolfie. Or ollie. They are all losers.
Maybe that's what it will take to wake sheeple up, run such an obvious, blatant loser, make him punk all his speeches and debates, and then give him the win.
Oh wait. We've already seen that rerun.

[RAF]

22. e-voting fraud would get him there

and perhaps this is what we finally need to bring this issue out in the open.

Lord knows none of the current Dem. leadership have the balls to touch the subject.

[Tesla]

23. If you watched that show today....

and you saw them all freakin' gushy over Bush.....
calling him a "star"....

I was thinking.."Wake the F#ck Up People!!!!

[Davis_X_Machina]

24. It'd be a tremendous step forward for minorities...

...since no major party has ever had a Nosferatu at the top of its ticket before

[Teaser]

25. Woodward hasn't known shit since

Watergate.

[jayctravis]

26. He's got "serious" and "dark" down for sure.

[truthisfreedom]

27. this cheney?

[FrankBooth]

28. This is laughable

Not a chance in hell.

[Danmel]

30. He'll have served two terms

He won't be eligible to run!

[realFedUp]

34. amen

isn't he done being pResident.

I'm certainly done with him and his wife.

[realcountrymusic]

31. Bring It On

Oh would that be sweet. Halliburton finally a serious campaign issue. And he can't get through breakfast without scowling and growling.

Plus he's a fucking chickenhawk. None of this "he served honorably" BS they pulled with AWOL.

Oh wait, they control the voting machines. Never mind.

RCM

[gauguin57]

33. Well, if that happens, my assignment will be to chip away at Lynne.

We'll finally get to spread the story far and wide about how Lynne Cheney was willing to make money off her lesbian romance novel ("Sisters") back in the '80s, and yet when the Kerry-Edwards ticket mentions the well-known fact that the Cheneys have a lesbian daughter (and yet shill for an anti-gay administration) she goes off the f*ckin' deep end.

Hypocritical BEE-YOTCH.

I'm going to make the spreading of that story my PERSONAL MISSION if Cheney runs for prexy.

[LiberalFighter]

36. He would be 3rd oldest inaugurated if elected

Reagan 69
Harrison 68
Cheney 67

Reagan and Harrison were probably in better health then Cheney

[Robworld]

37. The Republican party would never run Cheney as there candidate

They need a front man who can pretend to be the Every Man. This so called Every Man gets elected and then brings in all these big time scumbags that truly represent the Republican agenda. Cheney would be like Dole, except worse. A lot of people do not like him.

http://www.dumdumgoestothecircus.com/

[Fire Walk With Me]

40. (Sideshow Bob shudder)

Brrhhhrmmrhrhhhahahmmhahhaa......

[Beetwasher]

41. Unabashed Voting Fraud=Cheney Presidency

It would certainly fit their M.O. of complete and total, unabashed electoral theft and overall criminality. Make the theft or crime so big and so blatant that everyone has to believe it's legitimate/legal because otherwise their heads would explode w/ the implications.

[Old and In the Way]

43. It would take a world-class war profiteer and war-monger to have

that kind of moxie. Golly, Cheney does have the qualifications and motivation to do just that.

I guess we can all go fuck ourselves if Cheney takes over the franchise.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

50. they're warning us ! They DO PLAN on faking the elections again

Warming us up to the idea...

I think they originally planned on "permanent Chimp" forever, but they'd need martial law first to call off elections preceeded by another bigger than 911 "event"(MIHOP)-

-so maybe this "Cheney" thing is their next best "big" idea on how to maintain their permanent siphoning of all U.S. govt dollars as the greater part of our country falls into ruins and despair.

I hope they get the whistle blown and exposed by a someone within their own inner circle who wants to get even-
---maybe some pissed off greedy S.O.B. who got shafted out of their piece of the "pie" by their buddies...

[Dover]

44. No can't happen..............he's already HAD his two terms.

Illegal terms at that. I think we should vote instead on whether or not to sentence him to life or the death penalty.

[Dover]

45. No can't happen..............he's already HAD his two terms.

Illegal terms at that. I think we should vote instead on whether or not to sentence him to life or the death penalty.

[nwliberalkiwi]

46. No Heart

How can a reptile with no heart be Pretzeldent!?!

[daleo]

47. Cheney has already been president twice.

Isn't there a constitutional limit?

[ngGale]

48. OMG - Spare me...

Dickie Boy and his band of merry men.

[zann725]

49. "...a serious VACUUM" indeed! No hearts, no brains...

no morals...nothing. Nothing but "connections" to the voting machines.

Doesn't matter who runs. Come on!

[funflower]

51. Brownback is a contender???

OMG - That guy gets in the Oval Office and I am REALLY gonna move to New Zealand.

[rndmprsn]

52. please...let him run!

he is the poster boy for all the stink of this admin...

[IndianaGreen]

53. Yeah, what about Lord Vader?

Shouldn't he take the title for the job he has held for the last 5 years?

[WhiteTara]

54. I can only pray his heart will attack him

because the thought of him and kkkrove makes me want to be sick
:eyes:

[SKKY]

57. If Bill Bradley didn't cut it because he passed out on the campaign...

...trail once, I have a very hard time believing we'd elect someone who has had 3 or 4 heart attacks. But then again, it would exactly surprise me either.