McCain On Whether Cheney Might Serve In His Administration: ‘Hell, Yeah’
McCain On Whether Cheney Might Serve In His Administration: ‘Hell, Yeah’
As Vice President Dick Cheney makes the rounds on “the GOP’s rubber chicken circuit” these days to raise funds for conservative candidates, he always implores his audiences “to make sure that we elect John McCain the 44th President of the United States.” But worried about being labeled a third Bush term, the McCain campaign has made strides to distance the candidate from Cheney by blasting “Vice President Cheney’s energy bill.”
But before Cheney became a political albatross, McCain overflowed with kind things to say about him. In fact, in July 2004, McCain described Cheney as one of the best vice presidents ever:
At a July 15 appearance in Michigan, McCain dampened the speculation by calling Cheney “one of the most capable, experienced, intelligent and steady vice presidents this country has ever had.”
In interviews for Stephen Hayes’ 2007 biography of Cheney, McCain “strongly” asserted that Cheney “has been of enormous help to this president of the United States.” Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports today that in unpublished comments to Hayes, McCain also said that he would consider Cheney for a post in his administration:
Going further, McCain even told Hayes in comments heretofore unpublished that he’d consider Cheney for an administration post.
Asked whether he’d be interested in Cheney had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms, McCain said: “I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.”
Though the McCain campaign told Martin that “John McCain will always treat the vice president with respect,” they also refused to say whether they would have Cheney speak at the Republican National Convention. “No decisions have been made on the program yet,” said a McCain aide.
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ah, confirmation they are both criminals.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:24 amThis is proof enough that McSame in insane and should be put in a straight jacket and locked away.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:24 amIf there is ANY reason NOT TO VOTE for Mcputz, THIS IS IT!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:24 amWhile you’re at it John, see if you can find a spot for Bob Dole too.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:25 amThanks, Johnny! That will save Obama a lot of time and money! Keep it up!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:25 amCould he serve in other capacities? Hell yeah.
How about a spittoon? You could put him beside the door with his mouth open and we can all take turns at him.
Copenhagen anyone? Or Mail Pouch?
June 11th, 2008 at 11:25 amKeep digging that hole, Gramps. Excellent job so far…and while you’re at it, shove yourself in there. Geez!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:30 amOh my gawd! It’s really true. Old dawgs can’t learn new tricks! Can’t see the forest for the trees!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:30 amMcCain- you are indeed going to make Cheney look like Ghandi!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am“Hell, yeah” - that’s exactly where I’d have Cheney serve.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:32 amlol
June 11th, 2008 at 11:35 amI think If McCain gets presidency, we might all look back on Bush with longing! He’s gonna make all of Bush’s atrocities look like child’s play. I think McNoBrain is going to be the sh*t that truly hits the fan! What ever respect and good image we had as a country is going to absolutely disappear.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:36 amMcCain ‘08: Because Cheney isn’t crazy or angry enough!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:39 amMcNuts/Darth 08: President/VP of Insane-istan. “Hell” is indeed the right word cuz that’s where they’re all soon going to have a bonfire, where it’s going to be their asses on fire. HA!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:39 amPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
“Hell, yeah” - that’s exactly where I’d have Cheney serve.
:D
June 11th, 2008 at 11:40 amMost Americans would prefer that Darth Cheney “serve” in the federal penal system (where he belongs) but McNumbNuts would give him a job in his administration.
That does it, Little Johnny! Show over. Return your campaign donations to their rightful owners. You just lost!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:40 amWanting the much-hated Cheney in your government is about as unAmerican thing you could do to prove you are a traitor.
Cheney has never NEVER been like by the People. Ever.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:42 amMaybe McCain could save himself some work if he just had his foot surgically implanted in his mouth.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:43 amBoy, that’s one big check mark on the list for reasons to not vote for this man.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:44 amActually, McCain’s comment does highlight a correction of Obama’s depiction of McCain. McCain is NOT running for Bush’s third term. He is running for Cheney’s third term. And THAT, my friends, is all the fear mongering we should need.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:51 amArian-na was on real news today talking about blogs
June 11th, 2008 at 11:54 amMycane is the gift that keeps on giving. The DNC do not have to do a thing other than taking this quote along with the troops staying in Iraq not being that important.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:54 amMaybe McCant will pick the Dick’s warmongering daughter to be his VP. Jeez, is this the change we deserve?
June 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am.
McFish will fip/flop on this one, too.
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June 11th, 2008 at 11:55 amMcCain dampened the speculation by calling Cheney “one of the most capable, experienced, intelligent and steady vice presidents this country has ever had.”
I think the DNC should use this in one of their Campaign ads against McCain. It speaks volumns of his “intelligent” assessment of what makes a “most capable” vice-president. McCain is becoming certifiable.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:57 amI think he’s just saying that because Cheney is in power right now. It’s still a dumb thing to say.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:59 amAsked whether he’d be interested in Cheney had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms, McCain said: “I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.”
Secretary of Torture? I note the abbreviation would be “SOT”. Which means, stay away when he has a shotgun handy…..
And you have to love that “he and I have the same strengths” bit. That’s a great campaign line.
Cheers,
June 11th, 2008 at 12:01 pmMcCain said: “I don’t know if I would want him (Dick Cheney)as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.”
This needs to be on bumper stickers, billboards and tv spots until Nov. 4th.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm…said McCain as he cut his own political throat.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pmWithdrawal is setting in….I’m jones’ing for a Grampy McSame post by Buckie Boy :)~
June 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pmHe and I have the same strengths.
More puppies for the sacrificial altar, please.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:14 pm“He and I have the same strengths.”
June 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pmDoes he mean a total disdain for the will of the American public or by “strengths” does he mean an ucanny ability to suck neocon d1ck?
He and I have the same strengths.
Who did McCain shoot in the face?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pmAsked whether he’d be interested in Cheney had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms, McCain said: “I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.”
McCain paused a moment and then concluded, “… as long as he’s not in prison, that is.”
Seriously, is McCain trying to throw this election?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:25 pmMcCain/Cheney [19]08
_AIO_
June 11th, 2008 at 12:29 pmHurricane McCain
June 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pmNo calm in his eye
just a promise of more of the same
Ah, yes! Dick Cheney will be the new Torture Czar.
Oh, goody.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:33 pmMcPutz is making Charles Manson look sane.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:33 pmCheney, the Ambassador to Hell. He knows the culture, the language, how to travel to there and back, and is on excellent speaking terms with the leader. Maybe President Obama might even consider appointing Cheney as Ambassador to Hell.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pmGrampy McSame says - My friends back in the day we didn’t know dick, and it was hard to not wonder about not knowing dick, some people say that I don’t know dick, that I’m old and forget stuff alot, but oh no, I know Dick now, and I like Dick, now my friend Larry Craig knows dick and he likes it, you know you’re on with winning team when you have a dick in the White House, and Dick is gonna be there when we steal…er…ah…win the election, at the country fairs we would have spotted dick for lunch, but I washed mine with mustard and relish, everyone is just gonna love Dick in the White House with me and Larry, cause we all love dick..I keep celery in my pants with cream cheese.
Dick Cheney before he dicks you.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pmI love what John boy is doing. He is doing everything possible to throw the general election to Obama - I couldn’t be happier. Even John boy is not the idiot that Bush is; he must feel Diebold can tilt the election to him.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pmAh, bless you, Buckie - you keep me laughing through my fears!!
~A
June 11th, 2008 at 12:52 pmLaughing and typing is a tough combination. Thanks, Grampy McSame!
June 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pmCould he serve in other capacities? Hell yeah.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pmCheney could serve as McIII’s orderly, occasionally turning him to prevent bedsores, and applying his ben gay liberally.
Of all the inane, contradictory and stupid comments emanating from his mouth, this one is probably the most damning.
Anyone on this side of sanity would never utter those words in his political campaign.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pmVoters with functioning brains should back away slowly from this man.
The record of McCain’s personal statements is a virtual bottomless pit of material that can be used against him. But his love of Darth Cheney is more than one could ever have hoped for. Obama should be delirious over this latest revelation.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pmoh will someone PLEASE ask him this again now so he will do more flip flopping?.. the more the guy is forced to try to hold a constistent position the faster he will sink!
June 11th, 2008 at 3:21 pmBombin’ Johnnie said: “I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths”
Yeah, they’re both unprincipled, murderous gunsels…
June 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pm@ 46, rogbo2 sez: The record of McCain’s personal statements is a virtual bottomless pit of material that can be used against him.
which is probably true, except that for it to matter, there’d have to be a complete 180 from the SCUM (So-Called-Unbiased-Media) corporate lapdogs and leg humpers.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:31 pmThe only capacity in which Dick Cheney should be serving is in a prison.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:50 pmThis one statement proves that John McCain is unfit to be president.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:05 pmDon’t forget how “proud” he is to have “worked very hard” for Bush’s 2004 re-election. Really, John. Nuff said.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:10 pmI think McNuts is channeling Reagan and Nixon in seances to get advice.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:42 pmDick could serve as the White House greeter:
“Hi, go f*** yourself.”
“Hello, go f*** yourself.”
“Good Morning, go f*** yourself.”
well… you get the idea…
June 12th, 2008 at 12:08 amBlogwhoring…so sorry.
You’re gonna love this!
Why are YOU voting Republican?
June 12th, 2008 at 12:39 amLOL……Christ, McCain thinks Bush is poison, but not Cheney? The only reason why he said he’d like Cheney in his administration is because he thinks it’ll give Bush’s base a woody, and they’ll all instantly change their minds about McCain being too accomodating to us mofo democrats, and instead of sitting this election out, they’ll flock to the voting booth to vote for him [McCain]. . . .or something.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:24 amMcCain is the gift that keeps on giving. One possible reason for this, one might hypothetize, is that he is suffering from mild cognitive dysfunction, which makes it impossible for him to carefully edit the words that emanate from his mouth. If true, this is no laughing matter for him, but it will produce some real belly-shakers for others.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:05 pmImagine that!!!! A current dumb WAR CRMINAL, who never had a passport before they made (not elected!) him a president, followed by a right wing imbecil who does not know how to use a computer. But he wants to stay in Iraq for another 100 years… who cares about the economy! “God Help America!”
June 13th, 2008 at 1:00 amHey, Maybe McCain is looking to add Cheney to the ticket! Just think of that team, McCain-Cheney… That way the Cheney and the Neocons could continue the current puppet show another 4 - 8 years…
June 13th, 2008 at 7:55 am“Asked whether he’d be interested in Cheney had the vice president not already have served under Bush for two terms,…”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I am pretty sure there is no two-term limitation on Vice-Presidents, is there? He didn’t have to pose the question as a hypothetical; McCain could actually choose Cheney as Vice-President if he wanted to.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:24 am