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Former Vice President Dick Cheney chose not to run for president in 2008 but his daughter suggested that he might be a good candidate in 2012. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Liz Cheney dropped the former vice president's name as the panel was discussing President Barack Obama's decision to respect the Japanese Emperor by bowing during a formal greeting.

Fox News felt compelled to cover Obama bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko after conservative blogs attacked the president. "Sarah Palin would not have bowed to the Emperor of Japan. She wouldn't have even curtsied to him," said Bill Kristol.

But for Liz Cheney, Palin wasn't the only answer to replacing a president that would dare to pay respect to a foreign leader. "You can look at the comparison and think Cheney 2012," teased Cheney. It wasn't clear if Dick Cheney's daughter was joking but the Fox panel seemed warm to the idea.

"That's all I'm going to say," she said.

Kristol, who has long been an advocate for Sarah Palin, had an even better idea. "Cheney/Palin," he suggested.

"Or Palin/Cheney. Don't be sexist," replied Chris Wallace.

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Frumpzilla's picture

Dumb/Dumber?

Cheney won't recall any of this

BTW - we knew the Cheneys would be out squabbling this week - the guilty are so predictable...


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

yeah, just what we need, the same
criminal gop vp back in the whitehouse.....
cheney family = bush family = criminals

Isn't bowing in Japan basically the same as shaking hands? I mean it's not like Obama came up behing Angela Merkel and started giving her an impromptu (and unwelcome) back massage.

It is the same as shaking hands. Obviously the concepts of respect and politeness are lost on these buffoons. You have to wonder how people like them don't fall down more.

Bowing is only polite. Nothing more is meant from it. I do it all the time in Asia; it comes naturally to me. Shaking hands has only been adopted because Asians want to do business with the West, but it is a bit unnatural and uncomfortable for them.

If you don't bow, Asians watching think you are "uncivilized". Besides Japan is a huge American ally over here. Why not be polite?

[Of course, (not bowing) the Japanese would be far too polite to say anything, but they'd all be thinking it.]


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

gump's picture

This isn't the same as when he met the Saudi King who Bush bowed the other way for.


is intended to be a factual statement

Abbybwood's picture

.


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

Can O Whoopass's picture

No, Palin wouldn't have curtsied the Emporer of Japan. She would've gave him a night in Bristol.

oh wow that was good

Amitola's picture

Dubya bowed, kissed and held hands with the King - and maybe both ways, as you suggest...!


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

marcozandrini's picture

....and there are pix of George II holding hands with a Saudi prince! Crickets!

Excelsior's picture
Yes

It's called "being polite." When has Palin ever shown any sign of that?


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

miss_kitty's picture

did not vomit into the guy's lap.

Now THAT'S class!

ron's picture

gets talked over again, again and again, this time by Liz.

curtilingus's picture
:p@

friggin little poser bitch deserves it. Juan's an ass.

curtilingus's picture
:p

Just give the guy a mechanical heart. there's no way it could be as cold as th "supposedly" human heart he has now.

Liz is bad, mKay?

Captainapathy's picture

...let them field Palin/Cheney in 2012. That would be marvelous.

Excelsior's picture

They have a vicious sense of humor.

"Oh, you think these idiots can't win? Watch this!"


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

ohkay's picture

Hey, I thought GW Bush was utterly unelectable, until it happened. Imagine Sarah Palin as president and Liz Cheney as VP. It's bold, it's resolute, it's PC. It's my worst nightmare.

You know that the media will ignore 90% of their baggage and baloney, and treat them with kid gloves. Because we know that Sarah will shred anyone in the media who makes a single critical comment.

Captainapathy's picture

Republicans that elect Republicans, it's apathetic Democrats. That's that what I'd have threatened my congressman with had he voted yes on Stupak; not voting for his opponent, but not casting a vote in the race, and urging as many of my friends as possible to do the same.

But, nothing would rally Democrats to the ballot box more than Cheney/Palin, 2012.

Marco's picture

Please give us any Cheney/Palin combo in 2012. Thanks.

Abbybwood's picture

is looking better and better.


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

gump's picture

I know some of have said it before about Bush, but if this does happen and he and Palin win, I'm moving to Canada. No lie. I couldn't imagine living in a country with these to morons and murderers running it.


is intended to be a factual statement

Niques's picture

*

ronspri's picture

I have already seriously considered this. It is far easier said than done. Work visa, job, place to live. It all takes money I don't have and Canada isn't real generous with their work visas these days. We're stuck here with the spawns of satan. It is why I am strongly advocating that they live their fantasy and secede. Seriously. We should encourage that the next time they bring it up. It is our best hope.

Edwin's picture

If Cheney/Palin win, you could try the political refugee route, along with 50,000,000 other Americans.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

nmaxxs's picture

This country is really in the $hitter if these two are considered viable candidates for the highest offices in the land.

Evet's picture

American Idol, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Survivor.

And we haven't even hit the bottom yet.

ron's picture

think that those are the best they can offer to us that have to pay to get TV. Just part of the goal to dumb down the public.

Excelsior's picture

I'd say that goal was accomplished about 30 years ago. They're just polishing the turd now.


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

ronspri's picture

Succinctly put and 100% Correct.

That's what I thought in 2000 and again in '04. Unfreakingbelievable!

mudshark's picture

Please do so.
please,please,please.
Better yet, Liz/Sarah 2012.


What is your conceptual, continuity?

kasinca's picture

Nothing these @zzclowns say is important. What have they ever been right about? They are consistently wrong.

Shameless lust for power must be in the blood.

curtilingus's picture
:p

This effen fox Sunday drivel. Really I think I've seen better discussions on the View. That wasn't worth watching.

jakes's picture

It made me giggle between fits of revulsion for a very rude political operative who is likely incapable of separating reality from spin.

Kreskin's picture

Cheney / Palin ? LMAO , now there is a winning ticket ! Please let it be so ! The Cheney's raised and programmed themselves quite a robot didn't they ?

Can O Whoopass's picture

Darth Cheney had a heart condition back in 2000?

Did they simply mean he didn't have a heart?

And when's he paying those taxes on that blood dripping money on his "deferred" taxes?

Patriot Actor's picture

speaking of damage to national security...
what a laugh

SadButTrue's picture

"speaking of damage to national security...
what a laugh"

Not quite so lunatic as her claiming that it was Obama that damaged the economy, or America's standing in the world. Maybe she thinks the collapse of the banking industry was due to too much regulation. She sure as hell hasn't consulted any international polls on the world standing issue.


"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."

Your standing in the world has skyrocketed since Obama was elected. Bush was hated.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

Patriot Actor's picture

If you expect the world to kiss your ass....
they will hate you for your freedoms!

LeftandLeft's picture

Ugly bitch conveniently ignored her asshole father and his mass murdering boss' genocidal escapades while trying to pimp Palin.

fil hussein oaks's picture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney
Elizabeth graduated from McLean High School in 1984. She received her bachelor's degree from Colorado College where she wrote her senior thesis, "The Evolution of Presidential War Powers," in 1988

http://www.slate.com/id/2210084/
By Zac Frank
Posted Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 1:00 PM ET
In 1988, while Dick Cheney was Wyoming's sole representative in the House of Representatives, his daughter's senior thesis was quietly published in Colorado Springs. The 125-page treatise argued that, constitutionally and historically, presidents have virtually unchecked powers in war. Thirteen years before her father became vice president, she had symbolically authored the first legal memorandum of the Bush administration, laying out the same arguments that would eventually justify Guantanamo and extraordinary rendition, wiretapping of American citizens, and, broadly, the unitary theory of the executive that shaped the Bush presidency.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/12/73060...
The Cheney's don't fight the wars they start, they profit from them. It's not personal; it's business.

oldretire's picture

Now we know why the Eunuchs don't want to prosecute the Racist Nazi Fascist Socialist Anti American Spineless Gutless TRAITOR cheney.

Yes the right calls for betrayal of America, yes just think a Bimbo wanting her dada to run is he in charge of pimping her to the right.

Let the TRAITORS talk, it makes them sound as nutty as their CRACK POT brigade.

Mugsy's picture

Seriously, is there a petition anyplace I can sign supporting a Cheney/Palin ticket in 2012?

The words, "Democratic landslide" springs to mind. :)


* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.

HarpoSnarx's picture

a turd into the punchbowl better than the badly brought up Lizzie.

Excelsior's picture
Yep

"Sarah Palin would not have bowed to the Emperor of Japan. She wouldn't have even curtsied to him," said Bill Kristol.

Absolutely true. But that's because she's an ill-mannered, self-worshipping bitch.


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

Mugsy's picture

...and hold their hands (see: Bush & the Saudi King).


* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.

Excelsior's picture

There's nothing wrong with that, since that's the custom in that country. Palin is too convinced of her own superiority to ever give way to the customs of another culture. She'd strut around Palestine in a mini-skirt and flaunting that beehive of hers, I'd bet.

Come to think of it, I hope she DOES do that. She'd go down under a rain of stones within three minutes, and good riddance.


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

Mugsy's picture

I didn't bring the subject up in the Sunday thread because I think it was said more tongue-in-cheek than anything else.

She knows full well that her daddy can't handle criticism, and is SO evasive when questioned that no one would ever take him seriously.

The man should concentrate more on staying our of The Hague than running for President (although that could conceivably be his plan on how to avoid being indicted as a war criminal.)


* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.

ron's picture

She wasn't taalking about her daaddy.

Mugsy's picture

Every word out of her mouth is in defense of her daddy. When she says "Cheney", she means her dad. Count on it.


* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.

ron's picture

said Cheney 2012 she was talking about herself.

Hybrid's picture

... she was talking about her dad. Everything in the conversation was pointed to her Dad, including that dumb Bowgate nonsense, and the Cheney/Palin was about her dad.

Even Chris Wallace says it was like that. After all, Palin/Cheney is a non-sexist ticket.

If Little Cheney actually tried to run for office she wouldn't last long, especially since Palin would get on her nerves. Then again, she enjoys talking to people who agree with her, so it could go either way.

I see this thing crawls out from under her rock periodically to spew lies.

miss_kitty's picture

Stupid/Evil worked so well in the past...Why not try Evil/Stupid for a change, not that Stupid was ever in charge the last go-round...

I can see Palin driving the Dick batshitcrazyinsane as his Veep. If the Dick were a lizard, and she were a buzzing mosquito--ZAP! with the tongue, I tell ya...

Excelsior's picture

What makes you think she'd accept the VP spot? She's convinced HER finger should be on the button, not anyone else's.


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

miss_kitty's picture

hunting, one she couldn't refuse, to discuss the ticket order. At the end of said trip, she'd be apologising for getting shot in the face, AND gladly accepting the #2 spot.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

How do you know it's not already on daddy's prostate?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ronspri's picture

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

The guy has already gotten away with murder. He's gonna push that to the front again. Me thinks not.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Liz you are such a tool.

President?Yeah that's one option.
Swinging from the end of a rope would be another.


"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "

-Jack Handy

Gloriapower's picture

But he has to sing before he swings.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Gloria-we could always water board him-that seems to be a popular method for extracting information.


"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "

-Jack Handy

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

"Kristol, who has long been an advocate for Sarah Palin, had an even better idea. "Cheney/Palin," he suggested"

Yeah, because we all know what a track record Kristol has as far as predictions. As for Cheney/Palin - oh please let it be so! Obama won't even have to campaign - he could phone that one in. If its anything involving Palin - Obama can start writing his 2nd Inauguration speech now.


If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

George Carlin

CFAmick's picture

These people are stupid.

Valerie's picture

Not in my America!

Palin/Trig 2012

kaybee's picture

http://www.farleftside.com/misc/misc2009/bush...

Bush kisses rather than bows.

ron's picture

but he didn't use the tongue. He saved that for kissing the king's ass.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Bowing in Japan is no more significant than a handshake for us. Peers do it to one another. It's not like curtseying before the Queen of England, like Nancy Reagan did, which signifies a superior station.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

I like the bow.


"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "

-Jack Handy

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Niques's picture

President in 2012 would be right down Spawn Sarah's alley . . . she'd win the election but never have to serve, as the world is going to end at midnight 12-21-12. She won't have to quit her job, plus she gets to be God's memory of Blessed America's last leader, also.

Should get her a seat right next to Jesus.

/snark

jimmiraybob's picture

"Sarah Palin would not have bowed to the Emperor of Japan. She wouldn't have even curtsied to him," said Bill Kristol.

The modern conservative movement and its modern Republican Party have digressed from national movement/party to regional movement/party to what it is now: barbarian tribe.

No doubt Sarah would have insulted the Emperor of Japan as she would every other world leader. No doubt Chuck Norris would have used some fancy Karate choke moves.

Palin/Norris 2012 - If they can't bring on the Apocalypse nobody can.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ronspri's picture

I believe that if 2012 is anything it is a new beginning not the end. That leaves fox nation thought out of the picture. Big money controls our government and everybody elses. A world corporatocracy is what we have now. Most anything would be an improvement on that. Concentrated wealth kills...literally.

Hybrid's picture

... Palin/Huckabee would be your best bet for an apocalypse. Or Huckabee/Paul, Paul/Norris, or any combination of Palin, Huckabee, Paul and Norris now that I think about it.

It's funny how you can see the cancer of America just by looking at the ticket. I'd wager that any of those names will lead to a very bad year for everyone.

Bluestocking's picture

Fox News felt compelled to cover Obama bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko after conservative blogs attacked the president. "Sarah Palin would not have bowed to the Emperor of Japan. She wouldn't have even curtsied to him," said Bill Kristol.

**************************************************************

That's only because Sarah Palin and other neoconservatives are ignorant nationalists who know nothing about other cultures and are convinced that the United States is entitled to rule and dominate the world instead of being part of the world. The fact that they don't think the President of the United States should show respect to the leader or symbolic leader of another country in a way which is meaningful to that culture shows that they actually have very little if any respect for the rest of the world. Would Sarah Palin even know that bowing in Japan is primarily a gesture of respect rather than of subordination? For that matter, would she even care??? I very much doubt it -- on both counts -- and that's just one of the reasons why I consider the woman to be completely unfit to hold federal office of any kind, even if she were not Bailin'-And-Failin' Palin.


Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.

This is true, I don't think you even say hello or goodbye in Japan without bowing, do ya?

But Kristol isn't really debating anything here. He's corralling the people who will like what he's saying because they're stupid. He knows it's everything you said. But it isn't FOR us. It's for them. This hog call to the Big Altar is going to intensify, not lessen.

The closest future-warning novel to what will really happen, for me, isn't 1984, This Perfect Day, or Brave New World. It's The Handmaid's Tale.

Hybrid's picture

... the more I could see right-wing radicals storming the capital and overthrowing the government to bring back the "Christian nation". This, of course, goes downhill toward Gilead and the system they love.

Atwood was right! Everyone hide your women!

I want this so much. The kicking-to-death he'd get in an election, ROTFLMAO! I'm chirping with such happiness thinking about it.

Look out for that kid of Duncan Hunter's, Duncan Hunter Junior, he has the overall shit-eating looks of Tom Cruise's character in Lions For Lambs though far less handsome of course. Grins inappropriately, real sinister, ick. Soulless, robotic repug. Able to tramp up on top of the mountain of American KIA from these profitable (though not for most Americans) wars, and call himself an Iraq War Veteran. Repug voters will fall on their knees moaning with rapture. It's the LIVING ones they like. Forget the KIA, they're gone. Hey, it was their choice.

I don't think it's going to be the wee dick in 2012, that would be too wonderful, things like that just don't happen to me.

His daughter is just trying to get y'all's goat.

would be as the test subject for testing new "enhanced interrogation" techniques.

FOX will fire any liberal commentator that puts up a fight on air. Juan is paid to shut up and look like he cares.

Sooth Hussein Sayer's picture

Can she even see Japan from Alaska?

marcozandrini's picture

....she stands on her tippy toes!

The repugs just don't understand respect, becuase they don't have any for anyone.

wuzupdawk's picture

..Don't be sexist," replied Chris Wallace.

Yes, Chris. That's what's wrong with it. Man on top.

groan

surgethis's picture

Liz Cheney is a one trick dog ... nothing to add to the real conversation ... and Kristol is a metastasized cancerous growth within in corporate media that needs radical surgery. Of course they are on CROX NEWS the Republican Circus channel ....

Annaleigh's picture

Why do wingnuts want to believe in American exceptionalism to the point it bites them in the ass?

Here, they seem to be allergic to extending common courtesy, which helps us with other countries, but I was also discussing with someone yesterday how wingnuts' refusal to even consider learning another language ("because we don't have to, morans! USA! USA!), bites them in the ass too, and removes certain advantages from their individual lives. I don't get it.

What I do get is I am terrified of the thought of that daemon Cheney making it onto the Presidential ticket again...


I've never seen change without a fire

Yellowbird's picture

You have to cut through a lot of garbage to get to the stupid innuendo the title suggests. Sigh.

Re: The president "bowing" to the emperor of Japan?

Hey knuckle draggers: It's called M A N N E R S.

People all over the world with the exception of Republicans, practice MANNERS. It means, "I greet you with respect."

Of course you knuckle draggers have no respect for anyone, any life, not your own nation or the world at large. You are so selfish I doubt if you have the self respect a dog has when it drags it's hind on the ground for a cleansing. You are lower than that.

Paranoia's picture

Did he ever soar higher than that while being the vice president?

So I think its a joke, and cant be taken seriously.

sharksbreath's picture

When Juan was destroying Palin was priceless.

Plan9Studios's picture

I can't think of an easier ticket to beat that doesn't involve Chuck Norris! I say go for it!!!

LIZ & DICK CHENEY ARE TWO WORLD CLASS SICKOS...I KNOW DIZZY LIZZY IS LET ON TV FOR THE SENSATIONALISM & RATINGS, BUT SHE AND HER DEMENTED PAPA CONTINUE TO MAKE FOOLS OF THEMSELVES AS THEY TRY TO INFLICT FURTHER DAMAGE UPON AND LIMITS TO, OUR FREEDOM. GO AWAY YOU UGLY PEOPLE....JUST GO THE HELL AWAY!


Woody McBreairty

Plus they don't recall anything


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

much less elect that slithering creature again - and I think the majority of the voting public feels the same way.

What planet does Liz Cheney live on?

JohnnyBravo's picture

The country could use MORE pain!


NOBODY 2012

Liz Cheney: "...it would be nothing short of sexist to say she's not a serious candidate..."

How about she's too stupid. That's not sexist.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

Dr. Acula's picture
OMG

I couldn't get through the entire segment. Liz Cheney thinks Palin's book is "good", "well written...with a deft touch...by someone who's got her feet on the ground". Huh?

Chrissy Wallace - "What about "bow-gate?" What about being a fucking moron???

appnzllr's picture

I would love to see a Palin vs Cheney primary. Let Cheney chew Palin up. No one would vote for him in 2012 general election anyway.

riceroni's picture

Hmmm, Obama can't be civilized and show proper etiquette and respect for one's culture while in their country without these far-right fucktards ridin' his nutsack about it, but Bush all but toss King Fahd's sallad and walk around holding hands with the King Abdullah like two puppy love school yard teens and FAUX News or none of the right-wing media say shit. And they wonder why they're such a joke. As for Liz Cheney goes, she's just proving that being a fucking moron is hereditary.

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