Feeds: 
symbol identifies content for paid subscribers only.
THE NEXT CHENEY.
In 2001, John McCain told Dick Cheney that "With a little more luck, I might have been able to ask you to be my Vice-President." The DNC has thus put together The Next Cheney, a compendium of information on some of the folks populating McCain's shortlist (though not all -- where are Jindal and Graham and Sanford and Lieberman?). Turns out they're all bad! But the sites like this one do tend to wipe out the differences between the candidates: A proven pragmatist like Charlie Crist would be far better than a GOP hack like Representative Eric Cantor or Senator John Thune.
COMMENTS (5)
See if he picks Jindal of Graham, I'm just going to imagine them molesting a unicorn with an oil derrick until the DNC tells me why they're bad.
Though looking at this lists, I don't see anyone that would have a man sized safe or an itchy trigger finger. New Cheney's my ass.
Posted by: Matthew | August 5, 2008 11:07 AM
Whoever McCain picks, it won't truly be a "new Cheney" unless he's "accidentally" shot one of his friends in the face.
And then taken a day to tell anybody.
Posted by: Kevin S. Willis | August 5, 2008 11:25 AM
All the more reason for Obama to pick someone who's explicitly an anti-Cheney. Oh well.
Posted by: pseudonymous in nc | August 5, 2008 12:41 PM
Ezra, what exactly is it that you know about Crist's record that allows you to call him a "proven pragmatist"? Speaking as a Floridian, I can tell you he's anything but.
His full bore effort to cut taxes for millionaires has resulted in the greatest budget crisis in our state's history. But that was not enough for this hero of pragmatism. He then went on to push through a constitutional amendment that slashed local property taxes for millionaires even further, spreading the budget crisis to every municipality in the state.
The debate every locality is having now is not whether to cut schools, but how many teachers to lay off and how many schools to close.
And now he's behind offshore oil drilling in our state. Strictly for pragmatic reasons, I'm sure.
Ezra, please be careful of ignorantly repeating beltway conventional wisdom like this.
Posted by: Rob Mac | August 5, 2008 3:30 PM
Crist is rumored to be gay, and the republican party is rumored to be homophobic. How can your suggestion work??? What about Ru Paul?
Posted by: Anonymous | August 5, 2008 5:37 PM