Who do folks think would replace Cheney on the Republican ticket?

[Bossy Monkey]

I'm not claiming any clairvoyance regarding whether the Evil Empire is going to make such a move, but it would make sense. Cheney was only on there the first time because W had no foreign policy experience and is shallower than the beach at low tide. While the latter is still true, they have to pretend that 3-odd years in office has deepened, wisened, or at least wizened him, and Cheney, not exactly a great big ball of charisma, becomes superfluous. Seeing Ridge at the ALCS made me think that he might be a possibility. A thread in GD suggested Giuliani, although I don't think you substitute one health issue for another, plus be saddled with a tabloid-starring broken marriage just to get a phony hero on the ticket. Of course they could put Powell in the VP slot and win in a walk, but I don't think he would go over well with their loony right constituency. What do y'all think?

[Noordam]

1. IMHO is would not be one of his current team

but an outsider. Mmmmm anymore hollywood types around.

[7th_Sephiroth]

16. if its from inside the team now

ashkroft, watch cheney "Retire" back to halliburton (after makeing it b?illions in no-bid contracts)if a heart attack doesent claim him first, bush will go with ashkroft or rove (assuming the whole group doesent go down for treason) rove is most likeley, but me an a group of people plan on painting the treason image of rove soon.

[Bossy Monkey]

17. Rove has never run for anything and Ashcroft lost to a dead guy

but anything is possible with this group of rocket scientists.

[7th_Sephiroth]

18. actually

we are rallying money for treason awareness ad's

[VOX]

2. Rudy Guiliani...

Just my bet. Convention in NYC, homeboy made good, etc.

Prostate cancer ain't what it used to be in terms of effective treatment -- it's vastly superior. I believe John Kerry was treated recently as well.

As far as Guiliani's broken-marriage hijinx, I'm sorry to say that the recent California recall election may have shown that the public is tired of that aspect of the so-called "character issues."

[demrebel]

20. Rudy is going to take on Hillary

That is the word.

[ixion]

3. Ted Bundy

oh yeah, that's right.. they fried him... guess they'll have to find some other psycho. :evilgrin:

[zonmoy]

13. Then again

they might ask their master the devil to give them judas iscariot or vlad tepish to use as a running mate.

[amber dog democrat]

30. Josef goebbels

might be tapped as well. At least he was loyal to the end.

[zonmoy]

31. Or

if we are very lucky He will want to run himself.

[amber dog democrat]

28. Maybe Ed Gien?

The original Leatherface?

[JohnGideon]

4. Cheney Leaving The Administration..

In the next election, if not before, is going to be a problem for the Neo-Con grand scheme. They are supposed to want Jeb to follow George. That could happen if Cheney stuck around for another term. If not, Jeb may have to wait. My guess for VP is Chuck Hagel. After all he owns the voting machines.

[zonmoy]

14. and undoubtedly

not a single non republican vote will be counted by his machines.

[Stupdworld]

5. The New Face of Republicans

Behold ye the new face of evil!




GIS for republican vice president

[Sinistrous]

6. CondoSleeza.

Black. Female. Relatively unknown, except for her lying mouth. Recently "promoted" within the cabal to major mouthpiece.

We are being groomed for this.

[Niquie]

10. CondoSleezza! Too Rich!

That gap-tooth bitch! Sorry, she just brings out the worst in me.

[Manix]

7. You have to remember the Bush game plan is to set up Jeb for '08...

Typically the VP is the heir apparent..with Cheney no problem as he has no ambition (as we have been led to believe) for Prez job. If they bring in a new ambitious VP then Jeb is threatened.

[eileen_d]

8. Lieberman

Republican-Democratic Party Unity! except the Democrat is a Republican

[Niquie]

9. Cheney's not going anywhere....

...he's the hand that operates the Bush puppet. You don't seriously think Bush is the real President, do you? And do you know why it's so dark in the White House? Because there's a Dim Bulb in the Oval Office.

I've said this for a long, long time. Rumsfeld will be booted to the curb before 2004. Making Rice is boss is the first step toward removal. That's the ONLY concession Bush & Co. will make to appease Republicans upset about the Iraq fiasco.

[zonmoy]

32. You dont think cheney is the puppetmaster do you

I think it is either bush sr, carl rove, or franklin graham.

[calm_blue_ocean]

11. Funny coincidence

I had come to this forum for the first time just now in order to ask this Cheney replacement question -- you beat me to it.

I think they will replace Cheney with somebody they would want to run in 2008. Bush may or may not want Powell as president in 2008.

Tom DeLay?

Jeb Bush would be an interesting choice, but his relation to George Bush may hurt with potential voters -- or maybe not -- it would probably depend on how a Bush / Bush ticket worked in internal polling.

[BlackVelvet]

12. They seem to like imitating movies.................

so I'll have to say Jeb.

[kyrasdad]

15. Replacing Halliburton Cheney

It won't happen before the '04 race. But shortly thereafter, maybe within the first year, Cheney will "retire" for health reasons and Rove, errrr, uhmmm, I mean Bush will make his selection. Polling aside (I mean c'mon, these ya-hooos could care less what anyone thinks), I bet Jeb will be the front runner for the position. DeLay, no way. Even the Whitehouse knows there is no way he could withstand the scrutiny to go on in '08. I'd keep my eye on Condi and Jeb.

[Frodo]

23. I don't think it's possible for him to pick his brother.

Isn't that now against the law?

[kyrasdad]

25. hmmmm

Since when does the Bush Administration care about the law?

[Bossy Monkey]

26. I believe you're mistaken

It's a really bad idea, but I'm not aware of any Constitutional amendment (which is what it would take) preventing brothers from being President and Vice President.

[demrebel]

19. Rice

Rice

[DemVet]

34. Yup.

I agree.

[Pondo]

38. I think you're right

There’s already an effort under way to convince Bush to replace Cheney with Rice in 2004. Check out this website – http://www.bushrice04.org/

[Marion Delgado]

21. The scion of an old New England family which had over the years ...

Given over those of their progeny in whom the traits of nonhuman lines were all-too-evident as inhuman sacrifices to Dagon and other chthonic deities. A family in some respects materially blessed yet deeply cursed.

He will take the oath of office in the pale and noxious crepuscular half-light of pre-dawn on the Potomac river. Grotesquely turned out minions of Shubnikkurat will be seen capering in obscene nakedness beneath the sickly waning gibbous moon shrieking Ia! Ia! Shub-N'iggurath! Yog-Sothot! Eventually Washington and the surrounding states will be stripped of their inhabitants by forces it would be unwise to mention or even contemplate, the survivors reduced to pale and froglike imitations of the human kind bleating their pleas for blessed extinction to the nonexistent mercies of the great Old Ones.

[Bossy Monkey]

24. Hmmm. I'm not sure this narrows it down much. n/t

[number six]

22. Two words

Tony Blair

[amber dog democrat]

29. Ahhhh Bush's Poodle

good dogie

[amber dog democrat]

27. Darth Vador

comes to mind. Only he may be an improvement

[Military Brat]

33. Frist

bush would pick the Tennessee Toady, the cat-killing Bill Frist. What, you don't know about Frist's days as a medical student, when he would go to the Humane Society, adopt a cat, and then kill it for vivisection?

And he has major stock in Hospital Corporation of America, a sometimes sleazy but very profitable business.

So, Frist is a perfect match for bush ... the thrill of the kill and looting of the poor. Needless to mention a thumb-your-nose at Al Gore, by choosing another Tennessee favorite son.

http://www.unblinking.com/arc/20030108.htm

[Lefty48197]

35. Dan Quayle

He could immediately raise the stature of the administration.

[OKHRANA]

36. Come on, think. It's George Bush Sr.

That way, there won't be no more problems with the CIA and besides Dad will save on his long distance bill.

Rice? Too cold, no charisma. Too one-track mind, with her it's strictly foreign policy plus he'll miss always having her tell him stories on his plane every day.

Powell? No, maybe qualified but sometimes thinks for himself. What nerve, what disloyalty! (loyalty is very important for the Bush family you know)

Jeb? Now W's giving this one some serious thought, thinks it might help him lock up the Florida vote (but is worried about return of old sibling fights he always seemed to lose, and Jeb's bigger)

[Punkingal]

37. Frist....

the doctor/Senator from Tennessee. Yuck!

[IronLionZion]

39. Ridge is not that bad

He did fine here in PA, but not as fine as Democrats Bob Casey or Ed Rendell. The fact that the office of Homeland Security is a joke is not his fault. Personally, I think Colin Powell would do a bang-up job as VP. His ethnicity will cause interesting things to happen with the Confederate flag crowd

[UrbScotty]

40. Zell Miller!

Jeb Bush
John Ashcroft
Tom Ridge
Bull Frist
John Engler
Antonin Scalia

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[Skittles]

42. Rice is nothing but a Bush whore

she'd serve him, not her country.