CHENEY: "Dean has never won anything, as best as I can tell."

[Bluebear]

"I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does. He's never won anything, as best I can tell," Cheney said in an interview to be aired Monday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."...

"Governor Dean must be doing something right if the vice president of the United States would stoop so low as to use the governor's mother as a way to deflect from answering the concerns of the American people," Finney said Sunday. "It's no wonder President Bush's approval ratings are at an all-time low."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050612/ap_on_el_ge/cheney_dean

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How do they determine who is governor in Vermont, the one who brings in the most jugs of maple syrup on election day?

[malmapus]

1. lol yeah I thought of that and Chair for the DNC

Maybe Dick was thinking about his own life and speaking out loud? :nopity:

[CTLawGuy]

2. mmm Maple Syrup

Hey Dick, at least Howard is FROM Vermont.

Are you really from Wyoming?

[reality based]

14. No he's just another Texas oilman

[Jane Austin]

61. Cheney?

He's neither a Texan nor an oil man. Oil men generally drill for oil.

He's from Wyoming and was installed as head of Haliburton as a figurehead to get government contracts.

Please don't blame everything on us; we've got enough to feel guilty about that we deserve.

[reality based]

73. At the time Cheney was announced as the VP candidate

he had a home in Highland Park (Dallas), Texas, and he was CEO of then Dallas based Halliburton which provides technical products and services for oil and gas exploration and production and is a major construction company of mainly refineries, oilfields & pipelines, and chemical plants. You can define oil man however you want, but at the time I remember the "joke" circulated that the Republicans had nominated two Texas oilmen on their ticket. I know Bush wasn't an oilman either but he once played like he was at Harken Energy. Don't worry after the current crew goes (Bush, Cheney, Delay) I doubt that any Texans will be trusted with power in Washington for a long time, at least if the voters have a say. The bloom is off the cowboy, or should I say cedar-chopper?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Yep.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1542522&mesg_id=1542555

:grr:

[Bluebear]

7. Stop this ride and let me off!

Who said that? :think:

[CatWoman]

4. TRUTH BE DEMAND, DAMMIT!!!!!

[Bluebear]

8. THIS IS HUGH!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

[CatWoman]

9. BWAHAHAHA

:rofl:

[Proud_Lefty]

27. Who's Hugh?

The puppy?

[Bluebear]

33. No, it's how the unwashed right spell "HUGE"

Complete with !!!!!!!!!!!111111111 where they were so worked up they forgot to hold the shift key down....either that or they are replenishing their Skoal and had to lift up their right hand.

[Proud_Lefty]

38. LOL

:dem:

[Proud_Lefty]

66. Sorry

Everytime I see your posts now, I look at the cute walking dog and think,"Oh look, there's Hugh!" FYI, he has a name. LOL

[gademocrat7]

5. Exactly

Has Dr. /Gov. Dean gotten under snarley's skin? Good. Keep up the pressure Dr. Dean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ISUGRADIA]

6. Never won anything, yeah, right

only 5 elections for Governor in VT and by a record margain for a Democrat there. Cheney = idiot. And of course, his fascist friends are going to hate Dean.

[WearyOne]

10. "He's never won anything"..errr but wasn't he Governor ?,

and didn't he win his present position ?..is Cheney capable of ever uttering the truth ?

[rodeodance]

18. cheney has spoken--the truth is out

all bow now!!

[bluestateguy]

11. What?

Before Howard Dean Vermont had only elected 4 Democratic governors in its history. He was elected governor of Vermont 5 times. In fact, before the presidential primaries he had never lost an election being elected to the state senate, Lt. Gov and Governor.

[Lex]

16. And we think * is stupid? Also Cheney said he'd never met Edwards before!

This was during the Edwards/Cheney debate--when in fact Cheney had met him several times and sat right next to him for over an hour at a prayer breakfast.

Cheney is just a stupid POS like Bush.

[FreedomAngel82]

46. I remember that

And it was all over the place. LOL! Cheney looked like such an idiot!

[karlrschneider]

12. This from a snarling prick who lived in Houston but was a "resident" of

Wyoming? The old bastard gets nuttier by the day. Let's chip in and send him a microwave oven with a defective door seal...

[Blue_Roses]

74. hahahaha

The old bastard gets nuttier by the day. Let's chip in and send him a microwave oven with a defective door seal...

OMG that's funny:rofl:

[DeaconBlues]

Cheney is allowed to lie to the media with impunity

Remember the whopper during the 2000 debates about being a self-made man, when the company he was CEO of (Halliburton) basically stays permanently attached to the government teat? Or the one about Halliburton not dealing with Iran or Iraq, when it was actually making millions off both countries through subsidiaries? His lies are too long to list.

[Poiuyt]

13. Dean better stop insulting Republicans

After all, they NEVER say anything bad about Democrats

[Double T]

15. Man, Cheney Is Mean And Ugly......

Howard Dean Speaks the Truth And He Isn't Beholding To Anyone Within The Beltway. I Support His Slamming Of The republicans and conservatives As Long As He Doesn't Hit Them Below the Belt......Yet!!!! And Yes, Most republicans Do Look Alike...Mean And Ugly Like Their Leaders.

[LordshipLadyship]

17. Naturally

<<Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does>>

Of course not Idiot Number Two, you never bother to meet anyone human or anyone who has the ability to think or who won't sign the loyality oaths. You know, REAL people. You sure aren't one of them, until it's profitable and to your advantage to pose like one of us. But you can sure send us out to die easily enough under the guise of what passes for patriotism among your ilk. You wouldn't know what real love for our Country was if it bit you on your secluded ass.

and actually allow me to translate :

Damn! That guy has guts, we better move fast, or he'll tell more of the truth about us. Oh I know, let's do our usual trashing instead of answering. That ought to work.

[FreedomAngel82]

47. He obviously

hasn't met a lot of us and his wife. Does she count?

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Cheney doesn't "tell" much truth...as best I can tell...Cheney rides coat

tails. I think winning the Governorship and the DNC chair counts for something dorkface.

[SmokingJacket]

20. Dean is like garlic to these vampires.

Deing hated by this monster Cheney is a fine compliment. Cheney's approval ratings are like half of Bush's, which are in the toilet.

What a cretin. Dick couldn't tell the truth to save his own life.

[Bluebear]

21. bwahahahaha

WELL put!

[peekaloo]

22. He's just fucking insane. nt

[fedupinBushcountry]

23. Sick

Why isn't any MSM all over Cheney for his stupid rude remarks. Oh by the way when was the last time Cheney WON anything LEGALLY. These people are sick. :puke:

[Carni]

24. WTF has Cheney "won"???

Other than contracts in Iraq for his old (or so they tell us)company?

[Hand]

31. Well, he did get elected to congress from Wyoming once

...which for a Repuke is no major accomplishment.

[FreedomAngel82]

48. I betcha

he probably didn't even win that!

[Pinboy]

50. He "won" 5 deferments. n/t

[KittyWampus]

25. Yeah, We're Beating Up On Neo-Cons Again And Not Democrats

:bounce:
:woohoo:

[kliljedahl]

26. As best as he could tell

He'd never met John Edwards either.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[seabeyond]

28. democrats are of the "other faith". still waiting for a definition n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

51. I think it was either

Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly but one of them said we're religious but we have a different God then those on the right. What democrats aren't Christians either? Fucker.

[seabeyond]

60. it is a big deal for me to hear him say it out loud

when talking to republicans in this area last couple weeks, i have been telling them cheney said that, and i want cheney to give me the definition of the other faith. it has really appalled every republican that the vp has said this to the country about, me, personally, lol lol makes them reflect a bit when i say, cheney said this about all dems. republicans i know arent listening to their own leaders. they dont know what they are saying.

[Fridays Child]

29. Did Bigtime Dick have a mother? I doubt it.

But, if he did, I wonder if we can get a retroactive abortion for her.

[EFerrari]

30. Dean scares the cR@p of these criminals. Gotta love it. n/t

[Proud_Lefty]

32. It's been hard to respond to this statement

It's just so absurd that it's hard to even know where to start. These people are getting nuttier and crazier, thus setting themselves up for total exposure. I wish someone like Michael Moore would put some clips together of Rush Limbaugh's hateful spews, Hannity's recent attacks on the Democrats, Mehlman's incredible lies about the integrity of DSM being challenged by the 911 Commission, Bush's inability to even put two words together and top it off with Cheney's statement today, and then show the few clips of Howard Dean's comments, and let the American people decide for themselves.

It's just beginning too obvious and needs to come to surface for all to see. The moral people of faith need to be reminded that lying is wrong and they must condemn the administration for it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

57. It is incredibly difficult for me to wrap my brain around

statements like these. What a sad pathetic excuse for a grown man to stoop to such ridiculous insults. It's mass insanity reaching fever pitch.

I sure hope Dean goes after him with strength and grace when that airs.

[Proud_Lefty]

64. Doesn't it seem like they're unraveling at the seam?

There's no honor, no decency, no maturity left, nothing but viciousness and bullshit spewing from all of 'em. That fever pitch shows their desperation in their failure to keep the charade up. Dean sure hit a nerve, didn't he. As history always repeats itself, every dictatorship has failed by their own prides and egos. Good to see their downfall is now visible in the not-so-distant future.

[Pacifist Patriot]

65. I think we're seeing the boil on America's backside coming to a head.

[Proud_Lefty]

68. God, I hope that's not just wishful thinking

But it sure seems like the case. Let's all go somewhere else and let all the Freepers climb on America's backside to squeeze that huge zit that's been developing since 2000! Let them deal with all the residue its eruption leaves behind. After posting this, I realized it's pretty gross, but then again, when I look at Cheney's picture, I guess it really fits.

[Daphne08]

71. Don't forget the harpy mAnn Coulter...

:smoke:

[Bouncy Ball]

34. Hi cheney!

I am an American and I DO love Howard Dean. I have since early 2003. In fact, I don't think you are worthy to scrape the dirt off his shoe. And I think you should get out more, because easily hundreds of thousands of people love Dean.

[CTyankee]

35. He couldn't make it at Yale

dropped out and hated any Yalie who could make it after that (except GWB, who was an aberration). Dean and at least one of his progeny have prospered at Yale (and so did Kerry and the Clintons for that matter), so he is one of those permanently pissed people who CAN'T GET OVER IT>

[Gin]

36. The dickster was confused....he was thinking of shrub...who never

won anything....including the white house.

[goodboy]

37. go fuck yourself, Dick. (nt)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

39. lol tucker carlson is the loser in this

isn't his new show on the same time on monday as h & c? too funny. has ailes fired a torpedo at bow tie boy? this won't help his premiere ratings.

[DanCa]

40. Cheney has no moral authority

He wont allow his own kid to get married and he lied about meeting John Edwards at a prayer breakfeast. What else did Cheney lie about? Oh his non service in viet nam and the reason we went to war . Hah cheney's your typical repug he lies and diverts attention of his lies by shifting the blame to others. Cheney do us all a favor you sick fat embryo lover and crawl back into your undisclosed location until 2008.

[foo_bar]

41. Dean won 9 elections, 8 of them statewide

State Representative, 1983-87; Lieutenant Governor, 1987-91 (elected in 1986, re-elected in 1988, 1990); Governor, 1991-2003 (elected in 1992, re-elected in 1994, 1996, 1998 & 2000)
http://www.politics1.com/dean.htm

Meanwhile in Cheneyville...

Suffered minor heart attacks in 1978, 1984, 1988 and 2000.
http://www.politics1.com/cheney.htm

[FourStarDemocrat]

63. Those don't count. Cheney meant winning big fat Haliburton contracts. nt

[bridgit]

42. republicans are clearly ramping up the hatred very, very early...

they know perfectly well that dean is not afraid of them, has them understood up one side & down the other, & very able to speak truth to power, he has the issues down pat, and it freaks them the hell out. by the time we come round to election 2006, republicans will be spitting all over their own lips with bile & venom. best be ready here & now!!! for the display of exponential hatred that is to follow in short order.

let dean be dean :thumbsup:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

43. The more they talk like this..........

the better I like it. If Dr. Dean was not a political threat he wouldn't even be mentioned. Dr. Dean speaks for this lifetime democrat and when I hear the right talk about Howard, I know they are starting to feel uncomfortable.
I am writing my elected reps to let them know I support Mr. Dean and the policies he stands for. Why? Because he stands for me! :)

[bunny planet]

44. Yeah, does anyone remember Darth Cheney at the debates lying

that he'd never met John Edwards until he just walked on the stage.

You are such a judge of character Dick.
Nyet.

[FreedomAngel82]

45. Uh hello Cheney...

Dean was GOVERNOR of Vermont and he won the chairmanship of the DNC. Idiot!

[porkrind]

49. I think Cheney confuses "Win" with "Steal"

It's an understandable mistake for a neocon. Just like him and the chimp won the 2000 and 2004 election.

[BigBearJohn]

52. If for no other reason, I love Dean because he is a bug up the Repubs ass

[the_spectator]

53. Being governor of Vermont 7 times may not seem like much...

to a big-state Texan like Cheney -- oh wait, he's not from Texas, he's from Wyoming (where he was elected Congressman 6 times):

"Vermont has one of the smallest populations in the United States. Vermont's population in 2000 was 608,827 in 1985. That ranks Vermont's population 49th in the nation. Only Wyoming and Washington D.C. have fewer people."

http://academics.smcvt.edu/vtgeographic/textbook/population/population_of_vermont.htm

[BigBearJohn]

54. Would somebody please order this guy 2 double-bacon cheeseburgers?

[Rex]

55. At least Dean has a mother.

They built Cheney out of crappy spare parts!

[Pacifist Patriot]

56. What an asshole!

Project much?

[BigBearJohn]

58. Dean is beating them at their own game and they hate it!

Fight fire with fire I always say.
He is approaching them at THEIR level.

[Lori Price CLG]

59. Neither did f*cking Bush, except for TX governorships! n/t

[Lisa]

62. that's because Dean's father's friends on the Supreme Court ...

... intervened to hand him the Governorship, and Dean himself capitalized shamelessly on a tragedy that was at least in part due to his neglect, in order to get another term ...

Oh, wait -- that's not Howard Dean. I'm thinking of Cheney's friend George W. Bush. Sorry!



p.s. Being Canadian, I love maple syrup. May I help count the jugs next election day?

[bunny planet]

67. And you've never told the truth about anything.........

as far as I can tell Dick.

[MadisonProgressive]

69. Now, now... Cheney was talking about the lottery!

[LightningFlash]

76. Cheney is projecting now.

He's simply talking about himself, who illegally created wars which he could "Make legal"....

[kimchi]

70. A WARNING for the picture please?

I almost lost my dinner looking at that jacka$$.

They are running skeered.

[Arkana]

72. Neither have you, Dickhead--not legitimately, anyway.

[Clarkie1]

75. Name-calling, false accusations. Let's not stoop to their level.

Dean is doing a wonderful job of telling the TRUTH!

Edit: And this, my friends, is exactly how any playground bully reacts to the TRUTH.

[paineinthearse]

77. I nominate Cheney for "conservative idjut of the week". nt

[checks-n-balances]

78. I second that - but I think they should change the "idiot" label

and make it "conservative projectionist of the week" or some such. It would be more educational to inform the public of all the ways that the rethuglican leaders have projected their inner bile that week onto those who disagree with them. That way they can have their words turned back on them.

Anyway, thanks everybody for a surprisingly entertaining thread tonight!