Your Vice President Dick Cheney 6/12/05:

“I’ve never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I’ve never met anybody who does. He’s never won anything, as best I can tell.
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“So far, I think he’s probably helped us more than he has them. That’s not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party.
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“I really think Howard Dean’s over the top.”

No better example exists of the gaping void between what Democrats and Republicans are allowed to say in public. Over the top…like when Cheney told Senator Pat Leahy to “go fuck yourself?” Or how about during the Presidential debates when John Kerry said:

“If you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she was, she’s being who she was born as.”

To which Lynne Cheney, a woman with the severe misfortune of having copulated with Dick Cheney on at least two occasions, replied:

“The only thing I can conclude is he is not a good man. I’m speaking as a mom,” she said. “What a cheap and tawdry political trick.”

Hmmm…cheap and tawdry like Lynne’s lesbian romance novel that encourages condoms? But that’s a whole ‘nother post.

Dick Cheney’s comments about Howard Dean are not surprising in their audacity or their mendacity. The reason Cheney has never met anyone who loves Dean is that he lives his life as cloistered as his nominal boss. Dean was elected governor of Vermont five times, and most recently was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Some people may not want Dean representing the Democratic party, but Cheney has a much higher obligation: representing the American people.

More Cheney fun with facts can be found on CAP.

And even though it isn’t nearly enough, Dick Cheney, SHUT THE FUCK UP!