Cheney: Dean is Over the Top

Yep that's right - Mr. the insurgents are in their death throws has called Dean 'Over the Top'

www.reuters.com :

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney slammed Democratic Party boss Howard Dean as "over the top" in a television interview to air on Monday, saying Dean had helped Republicans more than Democrats.

"I think Howard Dean's over the top. I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does," Cheney told Fox News Channel.

"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," Cheney said.

Really? So does that mean bushes approval ratings would be at 25% without Dean's 'Help'?  

More Below.

Cheney's attack was the latest in a chorus of Republican complaints about the Democratic National Committee chairman, who recently said Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives" and were "pretty much a white, Christian party."

For the Record, Here are some of Cheney's quotes:

It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States" - Dick Cheney

"Go f*ck yourself." - Vice President Dick Cheney to Sen. Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor

"The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight." - Vice President Dick Cheney

The list goes on and on.

There are currently 438 stories related to this on Google news.  When are we going to get 438 articles written when a republican says something outrageous?

•  "I've never met anyone who [loves Dean]"

  ...and at the vice-Presidential debates, he'd never met John Edwards before.  

  I submit:

  1. Cheney needs to get out more.
     
  2. Cheney needs to cut back on his meds so that he'll remember who he meets when he gets out.

  by osterizer on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:10:55 PM PDT

•  Captain Obvious: Cheney is War Profiteer n/t

  by mediaprisoner on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:11:26 PM PDT

  •  Darth Cheny

    ...Darth Cheney is projecting.

    He needs.....SOME LOVING....

    Quick. somebody give Darth Cheney a big hug, before he decides to make Bush attacks another third world country again.

    Syria and Iran, yer next. Better watch it.

    by fugue on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:20:36 PM PDT

•  He's such a grumpy old coot

  He really is.  If Cheney is worried for me and my party, we're doing something right.

  To add to you list.

  "...it's pretty much been proven..."

  When it has not obviously been proven and Gloria Borger asked about it?

  "I never said that..."

  by Cathy on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:11:47 PM PDT

•  if a bitter

  and evil and blood soaked ghoul like cheney disapproves of our party chairman, i'd say we picked the right guy. cheney can go fuck himself in hell.

  "after the Rapture, we get all their shit"

  It's time: the albany project.

  by lipris on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:15:40 PM PDT

•  Cheney's Insult Is Out Of Touch

  With the American people. Forever plagued by consistently low polls, which now holds true for his party as well, Dick Cheney represents only marginal radicals. Republicans I've talked to agree Cheney is doing far more harm than good to his party, and indeed to our country.

  It's exceedingly poor form, a dangerous step for our democracy, to bring mothers into it. This sneering, mumbling hunchbank should get back to the bell tower.

  by NewDirection on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:16:07 PM PDT

  •  The Mother comment was BS

    If he ever bothered to leave his undisclosed location, he'd find plenty of people that like and support Dean.

    by sgilman on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:19:03 PM PDT

    •  Free Idea for Dean..

      Dean shoudl come out with a great Comedy punch line with His mom.

      (GO to Daily show, with his mom....yelling at him!!

      that would SHOT up party favorability by 20% overnite!...

      DEAN...come on. Turn on your funny bone, and bring your mom!!

      Show them who knows more about media and being charming than these wingnuts.)

      by fugue on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:24:54 PM PDT

      •  He should get his mom to make a statement.

        That would get the medias attention.

        by sgilman on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:47:40 PM PDT

•  Methinks

  Methinks the GOP doth protest too much.  Dean is a genius.  Let's us use the corporate media and their Repub cronies to keep Dean's frame of the GOP in the news.  Well done.

  by Chimpy von Chimpibush on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:17:38 PM PDT

•  Start calling the media

  Make sure they ask every Republican, no matter what they come on the show to discuss, to respond to Cheney's words. Ask if he could genuinely be so ill-informed as to not know that Howard Dean was elected governor more than once. This really should be troubling to people--after all, remember back in 2000? Cheney was billed as the competent one.

  Ask how he could possibly be so ill informed as to think that nobody likes Howard Dean except, possibly, his own mother. To not know that Howard Dean is extremely popular, at least in some circles. would suggest that Cheney has been spending too much time in an "undisclosed location". What else is he not aware of? This should concern people.

  No word in edgewise for any Republcan who wants to talk on television, until they have been forced to discuss this "gaffe" committed by the vice president. And yes, by all means, bring up those previous gaffes that are mentioned in this diary.

  by Renee in Ohio on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:18:25 PM PDT

•  Better Howard Dean

  Than a supporter of apartheid, Dick.

  by Drew on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:19:07 PM PDT

  •  Boomerang.

    Talking about White only party.

    ......HEY use this punch line.....THIS SHOULD go a LOOOOONG way to punch Cheney back!

    "Cheney support apartheid, and now he is whining about GOP being called waspy fundamentalist theocrat party.

    by fugue on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:28:47 PM PDT

•  re

  They don't call him "Dick" for nothing^TM

  by cookiesandmilk on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:20:01 PM PDT

•  Then Dean must be right!!!

  If the GOP really thought that Dean was hurting his own party, they'd shut up and let him sink. If Cheney is coming out on the attack, then Dean must be posing a real threat for the 2006 midterm elections!

  by Hoya90 on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:20:17 PM PDT

•  BWAH HAH HAAAAAAAH!!!!!

  Oh, excuse me while I stop laughing my butt off!

  Cheney is mad because Dean said a mean thing about the Republicans?  CHENEY?  Vice President "I'm Willing to Sell My Kid Out So the Wingnuts Can Vote Republican" Cheney?

  Of course Cheney's never met anyone who loves Dean!  His GOP pals are all terrified of him!

  C'mon folks--Howard baited the GOP and they fell for it.  Pass the popcorn!

  by The Truffle on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:20:59 PM PDT

•  Cheney is a Psychopath

  It goes without saying that Cheney doesn't have any room to talk about anything. I think Cheny fits all of the conventional checklist items for being a psychopath... I just can't wait to turn his ass over to the international criminal court. Do they execute people? Probably not... Maybe we need to make sure he is punished according to U.S. law.

  Cheney's one guy who I think deserves capital punishment.... never thought I'd support that... but hey, that's just my gut reaction. Man... I could start to believe in this country again if I saw that cretan's cranium hooked up with electrodes.

  by Jeff Gannon on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:21:24 PM PDT

•  Dems who criticized Dean -- step up!

  This is an opportunity for the DINOS who criticized Dean to step up to the plate and defend him from Mr. Potter.

  Hello?  Anyone paying attention?  

  Harold Ford Jr.?   Biden?   Obama?  

  Yoooo hoooo!

  by Nordic on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:30:59 PM PDT

•  Dick

  It's called a gym.  It's where men go.  Oops...that leaves your draft deferring ass out.

  by bonddad on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:37:02 PM PDT

•  other cheney quotes

  Some more quotes from Cheney:

  "And we would've won this war if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" (This was said after he pulled the sheet off of his head, revealing that he wasn't actually a ghost but a person wearing a cheap costume.)

  "Hey you kids get off my lawn!" (This is often repeated when grandpa doesn't take his medication.)

  by mrradon on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:41:45 PM PDT

•  dean scares them

  if they are sending cheney out to bash dean this  means bush is worried.he is trying to keep deans
  mouth an issue to deflect from himself.trust me someone told the repubs to worry about dean and what better way to reach his base than that idiot
  hannity.excite.com had  a bush poll yesterday and all he got was 39% approval,and i figure internet polls favor republicans.i believe if we can nominate some else but hillary the dems can win big in 2008, with hillary it`s highly doubtful.

  by JOEL1954 on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:42:00 PM PDT

•  What Dean should say to Cheney

  "Mr. Vice President, go fuck yourself!"

  by iCaroline on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:42:16 PM PDT

•  Dear Dick ,

  As long as you're mentioning mothers, do you believe it was from your own mother that your daughter Mary inherited her dyke gene?

  Or could it have been from your lurid minded lesbian-novel-writing wife Lynne?

  Just wondering.

  P.S. And why did you call her MARY, anyway?

  by busternjake on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:50:39 PM PDT

•  Go cheney yourself, Dick

  by jfern on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:51:10 PM PDT

•  Right, Dick! No-one cares about what you think...

  Cheney admitted it "doesn't matter so much what I think, I'm a Republican,"

  by skywalker on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:51:53 PM PDT

•  Cheney is beneath the bottom

  beneath contempt, & possibly under the influence.

  Dean's foot is on Cheney's neck.

  by x on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 01:59:39 PM PDT

•  Cheney Doth Protest Too Much...

  Given that it's a general rule that what ever these guys say, one should believe the opposite, I'm taking Cheney's comments as an endorsement.

  Nobody likes an opponent who punches back.

  by Doolittle on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:14:54 PM PDT

•  What should Dean's response be?

  Dean has Cheney exactly where he wanted.
  He should come up with a measured response, have it reviewed with other Dems and knock one out of the ball park. His criticism should be squarely at Cheney, not at Republicans in general. He should
  read from a prepared statement.
  His response should make fun of Cheney and also  him hard on his role in the Iraq war.
  This is the moment we are waiting for. It should hit him so hard that Cheney will never say anything against Dems ever again.
  If he come up with the right response, next week contributions to DNC will more than double.

   

  by ecoast on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:15:15 PM PDT

  •  Dean should respond

    Not by taking them seriously.

    But ask them the core issue, using joke, show statistic, be a clever ass for once. Instead of the rest of DLC cowards.

    by fugue on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:26:10 PM PDT

  •  Now the gloves come off.

    Howard, think about it.  Cheney brought your mother into it.  You want some red meat to feed to Southerners who drive pickup trucks with Dixie flags on them?  You want to prove Dems have balls?  Then, by God, call Cheney out on his mouth.

    As far as I'm concerned, the decline of the Dems truly began when Michael Dukakis failed to tell America that he would personally hunt down and kill anyone who raped his wife.  Clinton failed to go after Limbaugh for insulting his daughter.  You want to win some respect?  Go after Cheney hammer and tongs.  Prove that Dems will stand up for their own.

    Do it!

    by Black Max on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:29:35 PM PDT

•  What was so funny

  Is Cheney said during that debate with Edwards that he was in the Senate and never sees him..BULLSHIT..he's only in the Senate when they need him to break a tie..like on the nucylar option..lol!

  by patrioticliberal on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 02:27:24 PM PDT

•  great idea for a T-shirt...

  ...to raise some $$, huh?  Something like "Cheney says maybe Howard Dean's mother loves him.  So do I".  

  by grunmann on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 03:19:03 PM PDT

•  next he'll be attacking apple pie

  Why does Dick Cheney hate motherhood?

  by elmo on Wed Jun 22, 2005 at 07:44:04 AM PDT