Wierd article. I can't quite tell if it's a joke or not. Separating out the fluff paragraphs, mostly predicting what a boon Cheney's candidacy would be for his party/administration/boss, leaves us with...
Mr. Cheney has virtues as a candidate in his own right. He has foreign policy experience by virtue of having served as defense secretary, and he has economic policy experience, having served as a leading tax-cutter while a member of the House of Representatives.
OK, two good things about Cheney. This is pretty much the only part of that dude's editorial that isn't fluff.
His wife, Lynne, would be an asset to the ticket in her own right, a point made by Kathryn Jean Lopez in a post on the topic at National Review Online back in February.
Interesting premise. Let's see where it goes...
By our rights, Lynne Cheney would make one of the greatest First Ladies in history.
It went here. No reasoning given. OK. I know Lynne Cheney wrote a terrible lesbian romance novel and I know she's a bitch during interviews. Presumably there's something else I don't know about her, and the editor saw fit to leave me in the dark...?
Mr. Cheney, in any event, is more than four years younger than Mr. McCain, and, if elected, would be 67 years old at his inauguration, younger than Reagan was when he took office.
He's not quite as old as the oldest US president ever! That's a good thing! Also he's younger than one of the other party candidates.
His health, while a topic of frequent speculation, hasn't interfered with his service as vice president.
His 30-year history of heart problems hasn't killed him yet!
Certainly if this guy was actually advocating Cheney, instead of spoofing him, he'd have come up with anything solid to sell the idea? Yet he goes on and on about the good of the party and Bush's legacy as though he actually cares. I can't figure it.
