Forget that his approval ratings while in office were even lower than G.W. Bush's. Forget that he is widely credited with using his position to invent evidence to justify a war with a nation that hadn't attacked us and that never had WMDs. Forget that Halliburton, his former employer, has been paid billions since 2003. Dick Cheney is tanned, rested and ready to launch attacks on the Obama administration with the same scare tactics he used while in office.
Dick Cheney is certainly protected by the First Amendment. He is entitled to his opinions and is free to trash the policy positions of Barack Obama. On the other hand, scaring your own people based on policy positions that were already rejected in November isn't exactly useful. Can't the Republican Party find a fresh face to have an honest debate?
Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Christine Todd Whitman and a handful of others should be permitted to tone down the rhetoric and rebuild their party by drawing in more moderates who spend more of their time listening than lecturing. Mr. Cheney stopped listening long ago and appears to believe that he has all the answers.
No one person has all the answers. No one person has a monopoly on patriotism. Someone ought to let the former Vice President in on that little secret.
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How can Mr. Cheney stop the scare tactics now? They worked so well so long. He has never been interested in listening to anyone. His attempts at revisionist history and attacks on the current administration show how just how out of touch he & others of his ilk are.
While I am not ready to write an obituary for the Republican Party, they are definitely lost in the woods right now. Dick Cheney represents the past and there is no one out there expressing a clear vision for their future.
I am convinced that the term "moderate Republican" is on it's way to becoming an oxymoron. The far-right has made people like Arlen Specter and Lincon Chafee pariahs and will soon do the same to Snow, Collins, etal. Perhaps what will come of this is a true 3rd party composed of the remaining moderate Republicans who are fiscally conservative and socially moderate-liberal allied with the more centrist Democrats. If the Whig Party of the 1850's could disappear, why not the Republican Party of the 2000's?
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