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is an idiot, let's just get that out of the way. Isn't it fabulous that she can "imagine Thompson telling bush, don't push that button"? As if her fevered imaginings meant anything. And that Thompson has a "good sense of humor?" Who gives a flying crap! The country is in serious trouble, you want comedy rent a Monty Python movie you moron. Quinn always has been an idiot.

But, she is a well-connected idiot, so I wonder if this gossip she is blathering here is true.


A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney

By Sally Quinn
Tuesday, June 26, 2007; 12:00 AM



The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising.

As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq, Cheney is viewed as toxic, and as the administration's leading proponent of an attack on Iran, he is seen as dangerous. As long as he remains vice president, according to this thinking, he has the potential to drag down every member of the party -- including the presidential nominee -- in next year's elections.

Removing a sitting vice president is not easy, but this may be the moment. I remember Barry Goldwater sitting in my parents' living room in 1973, in the last days of Watergate, debating whether to lead a group of senior Republicans to the White House to tell President Nixon he had to go. His hesitation was that he felt loyalty to the president and the party. But in the end he felt a greater loyalty to his country, and he went to the White House.

Today, another group of party elders, led by Sen. John Warner of Virginia, could well do the same. They could act out of concern for our country's plummeting reputation throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East.

For such a plan to work, however, they would need a ready replacement. Until recently, there hasn't been an acceptable alternative to Cheney -- nor has there been a persuasive argument to convince President Bush to make a change. Now there is.

The idea is to install a vice president who could beat the Democratic nominee in 2008. It's unlikely that any of the top three Republican candidates -- former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Sen. John McCain of Arizona or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- would want the job, for fear that association with Bush's war would be the kiss of death.

Nor would any of them be that attractive to the president. Giuliani is too New York, too liberal. His reputation as a leader, forged on 9/11 and the days after, carries him only so far. McCain, who has always had a rocky relationship with the president, lost much of his support from moderate Democrats and independents (and from a fair amount of Republicans) when the Straight Talk Express started veering off course. And no matter what anyone says about how Romney's religion doesn't matter, being a Mormon is simply not acceptable to Bush's base. Several right-wing evangelicals have told me they don't see Mormons as "true Christians."

That leaves Fred Thompson. Everybody loves Fred. He has the healing qualities of Gerald Ford and the movie-star appeal of Ronald Reagan. He is relatively moderate on social issues. He has a reputation as a peacemaker and a compromiser. And he has a good sense of humor.

He could be just the partner to bring out Bush's better nature -- or at least be a sensible voice of reason. I could easily imagine him telling the president, "For God's sake, do not push that button!" -- a command I have a hard time hearing Cheney give.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501038_pf.html
 
If my experience with message boards, cable TV, talk radio, and rightwing media is any guide, Cheney is doing exactly what the republican base wants.

They love their war on Iraq. They always defend it to the hilt. They're always banging the war drums on iran, and salivating at the prospect of bombing iraq.

So, why is this gal babbling about how the GOP is desperate to get rid of cheney?
 
If my experience with message boards, cable TV, talk radio, and rightwing media is any guide, Cheney is doing exactly what the republican base wants.

They love their war on Iraq. They always defend it to the hilt. They're always banging the war drums on iran, and salivating at the prospect of bombing iraq.

So, why is this gal babbling about how the GOP is desperate to get rid of cheney?

You don't think it's possible they fear he is a huge negative in the coming election? But, of course, you're right about the base, I keep forgetting that part.

But what about in the general? They are losing more and more independent swing voters everyday, and they don't have them to lose anymore. I don't know Cypress. I 'm not sure.
 
You're right, that there are some GOP elders in the party establishment fretting over their war's impact on GOP electoral chances.

Yet, I've hardly ever seen anyone in the GOP base, or in congress come out against Bush's war. Let alone vote to change policies or implment timetables in iraq.

Is it possible many of the GOPers in congress know that their war is a failure, but are continuing to vote with bush and send kids into the meatgrinder, on the basis of GOP "unity". i.e., not letting the party fall apart and fracture?


Yes: I do believe GOPers will send kids into a meatgrinder, for a war they know in their hearts is either lost, or a complete failure.
 
is an idiot, let's just get that out of the way. Isn't it fabulous that she can "imagine Thompson telling bush, don't push that button"? As if her fevered imaginings meant anything. And that Thompson has a "good sense of humor?" Who gives a flying crap! The country is in serious trouble, you want comedy rent a Monty Python movie you moron. Quinn always has been an idiot.

But, she is a well-connected idiot, so I wonder if this gossip she is blathering here is true.


A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney

By Sally Quinn
Tuesday, June 26, 2007; 12:00 AM



The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising.

As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq, Cheney is viewed as toxic, and as the administration's leading proponent of an attack on Iran, he is seen as dangerous. As long as he remains vice president, according to this thinking, he has the potential to drag down every member of the party -- including the presidential nominee -- in next year's elections.

Removing a sitting vice president is not easy, but this may be the moment. I remember Barry Goldwater sitting in my parents' living room in 1973, in the last days of Watergate, debating whether to lead a group of senior Republicans to the White House to tell President Nixon he had to go. His hesitation was that he felt loyalty to the president and the party. But in the end he felt a greater loyalty to his country, and he went to the White House.

Today, another group of party elders, led by Sen. John Warner of Virginia, could well do the same. They could act out of concern for our country's plummeting reputation throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East.

For such a plan to work, however, they would need a ready replacement. Until recently, there hasn't been an acceptable alternative to Cheney -- nor has there been a persuasive argument to convince President Bush to make a change. Now there is.

The idea is to install a vice president who could beat the Democratic nominee in 2008. It's unlikely that any of the top three Republican candidates -- former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Sen. John McCain of Arizona or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- would want the job, for fear that association with Bush's war would be the kiss of death.

Nor would any of them be that attractive to the president. Giuliani is too New York, too liberal. His reputation as a leader, forged on 9/11 and the days after, carries him only so far. McCain, who has always had a rocky relationship with the president, lost much of his support from moderate Democrats and independents (and from a fair amount of Republicans) when the Straight Talk Express started veering off course. And no matter what anyone says about how Romney's religion doesn't matter, being a Mormon is simply not acceptable to Bush's base. Several right-wing evangelicals have told me they don't see Mormons as "true Christians."

That leaves Fred Thompson. Everybody loves Fred. He has the healing qualities of Gerald Ford and the movie-star appeal of Ronald Reagan. He is relatively moderate on social issues. He has a reputation as a peacemaker and a compromiser. And he has a good sense of humor.

He could be just the partner to bring out Bush's better nature -- or at least be a sensible voice of reason. I could easily imagine him telling the president, "For God's sake, do not push that button!" -- a command I have a hard time hearing Cheney give.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501038_pf.html
She may be an idiot to you, but to me she is making good sense, except that if Chenny goes, so also goes Bush, and I don't think Thompson is the appropriate answer.
 
The repubas will just have to buy much more air time to program the voters to vote republican vs those evil liberals.
Swiftboat V2.0 coming soon to a media outlet near you.
 
the Mighty Quinn
By Bob Dylan


Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats,
Some are building monuments,
Others, jotting down notes,
Ev'rybody's in despair,
Ev'ry girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Ev'rybody's gonna jump for joy.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.

I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet,
But guarding fumes and making haste,
It ain't my cup of meat.
Ev'rybody's 'neath the trees,
Feeding pigeons on a limb
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
All the pigeons gonna run to him.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.

A cat's meow and a cow's moo, I can recite 'em all,
Just tell me where it hurts yuh, honey,
And I'll tell you who to call.
Nobody can get no sleep,
There's someone on ev'ryone's toes
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Ev'rybody's gonna wanna doze.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
 
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