Dick Cheney is awesome.
He was my first choice for president in 2000 and 2008--not that I regret George Bush, no way in Hell; just that the great George Bush hadn't emerged yet, in 2000.
He's so seductive in his utter competence, Dick Cheney.
He is that. I'll never forget him during the first Gulf War, when the leftist press was pumping up the "elite", "crack" Republican Guard of S. Hussein (as opposed to B. Hussein). It was to be an incredibly bloody, deadly war, with probably 10,000 Americans killed.
Then Secretary of Defense Cheney showed up giving briefings, as calm and cool as a cucumber, exuding confidence, and dead muzzies started to pile up like cordwood with hardly an American casualty.
Had he been at the helm, instead of the well-intentioned Bush41, or the timid Powell, there would have been no Iraqi military left for the second Gulf War.