__ is OUR Cheney!

We need a "far-left" vice president.

One of the few brilliant ideas that the BushRove mind-meld came up with was picking Dick Cheney as a running mate. The experience of having Cheney as VP has given us at least three object, if painful, lessons:

1. Who the VP candidate is does not affect the presidential candidate's ticket's electability. At. All.

2. Having a VP that scares the sh*t out of the opposition party is genius impeachment insurance for the POTUS.

3. The VP can get away with doing a lot of stuff to advance his own agenda by waving his hands and screaming "Executive Privilege!"

Ergo, to take a page from the right-wing book, the simplest way to advance  the left's agenda is to have a left-wing activist vice-president. Similar to how Cheney got oil lobbyists to write the energy policy, our VP could get Greenpeace to write our Global Warming policy, for example. Stuff like that. And if Congress tries to call him to account, he just has to stare them down and say something rude.
Yeah? Yeah? Is it not a brilliant playbook steal?

So let's pick a VP that can make the right-wingers can cower in fear!

•  Tips for IMPEACHING Cheney!

  Dick's gotta go!!!!

  by votermom on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:01:00 PM PDT

  •  Uh oh .....

    on the one hand I applaud your idea --

    on the other hand to compare anyone within the Democratic party as "our Cheney" makes me throw up a little

    by sara seattle on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:12:18 PM PDT

    •  it is icky

      but just snark.

      by votermom on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:19:44 PM PDT

    •  yeah

      sadly I thought this was going to be some sort of nasty candidate diary (who can blame me? the odds are good).  But instead it turned out to be something fun.

      I'm torn between Michael Moore and Gloria Steinem.  I don't know who would drive the freepers crazier.

      For a Supreme Court nominee?  Alan Dershowitz, for sure.  Neo-con heads would literally implode.

      by grasshopper on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 03:05:32 PM PDT

      •  Dershowitz for SCOTUS!

        That's funny!

        by votermom on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 04:52:54 AM PDT

•  Fuck Ralph Nader.

  Other than that, good question.

  by lineatus on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:15:55 PM PDT

•  Darth Nader.

  I don't think he would be scary enough.

  by Quilldriver on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:20:04 PM PDT

•  Feingold

  The lone patriot

  by forgore on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:23:26 PM PDT

•  My nominees

  (1) Jimmy Carter.
  (2) Robert Reich.
  (3) Joel Wachs.

  by bubbanomics on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:25:11 PM PDT

  •  Reich would be interesting <nt>

    by votermom on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:38:54 PM PDT

    •  I like him a lot.

      His commentaries on NPR are always thought provoking.

      by bubbanomics on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 02:10:06 PM PDT

•  Jesse Jackson.

  by slowheels on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:28:29 PM PDT

  •  Al Sharpton! nt

    by bubbanomics on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:30:13 PM PDT

•  There is nobody on our side

  Who is even remotely comparable to Cheney.

  by atlliberal on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:30:51 PM PDT

•  Ick

  Well, Cheney is the opposite of everything liberals stand for, so...

  In short, I'll give the same answer I always do when someone says that the left needs a Rush Limbaugh-type. Hell No!

  by droogie6655321 on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 01:31:03 PM PDT

  •  Well, the left COULD have its own Limbaugh

    or O'Reilly or Coulter or Malkin or Jonah Goldberg, but I don't know many of us who'd be willing to undergo the lobotomy.

    by sxwarren on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 02:46:35 PM PDT

•  all of you "cheney is grodie" folk...

  you're missing the point.  A lot of right-wing people like him.  I guess you have not seen the

  I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than catch a ride from Ted Kennedy

  bumperstickers?  

  Certainly, we are correct.  He is a spawn of Satan, evil, disgusting, even uglier than Kramer after weeks of maintaining his smoking haven apartment.  However, the point is to find someone who'd cause simultaneous strokes among redstaters.

  If she weren't already running for president, Hillary Clinton would be at the top of the list.

  by bubbanomics on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 02:14:46 PM PDT

  •  Hey!

    Kramer's kinda cute.
    Other than that, right on!

    by votermom on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 04:54:44 AM PDT

•  I thought it was a Rove/Cheney conspiracy to

  get Bush elected so they'd have a front-man/fall guy.

  This doesn't work for Dems because we don't have a POTUS candidate whose IQ is anywhere near as low as Bush's.

  by sxwarren on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 02:44:47 PM PDT

  •  Rove/Cheney

    vs. Rove/Bush. Hm. I thought Rove was some kind of parasitic semi-sentient glob that was attached to Bush.

    by votermom on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 04:56:36 AM PDT

•  What about Larry Tribe? n/t

  by buzzermaster on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 02:13:51 PM PDT

  •  for SCOTUS, imo <nt>

    by votermom on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 06:15:19 AM PDT

•  Al Franken

  He's not as far to the left as I'd like, but he's good enough, he's smart enough, and darn it, people like him!

  by output on Sun Jan 27, 2008 at 04:12:26 PM PDT