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...Cheney, chosen for his governing potential and his Desert Storm credentials, was preceded onstage by a onetime Veep contender, Governor Tom Ridge. The Governor spoke more than twice as long as the candidate did, and with 10 times the animation. When his brief turn came, Cheney ventured out from behind the lectern with a hand mike, but this just gave him the air of an infomercial host faking enthusiasm for his product. He concentrated largely on the campaign's latest theme--"education recession"--and then touted the benefits of joining the military. A student asked Cheney what he would...
...wasn't joking, and it was as off-key in its own way as Dan Quayle's response in 1988 that the first thing he would do was pray. Like Quayle, Cheney has come to be seen as a drag on the ticket, violating the first rule of Veepdom: do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York...
...knows what the embroidered cushion on his couch will say. The film at the Republican Convention showed him driving a pickup on his property at a prudent speed. And if Bush is elected, the nation will have to bear up under the knowledge that we will never see Dick Cheney in a silly outfit trying to ride a horse. But there must be some connection between Johnson and Bush, or why would Bush want a ranch...
...Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman may have set a gold standard for civilized political discourse in their debate last Thursday night, but with the Main Event, Part II just two days away in the heat of a race that just won't budge, no one in either camp seems to have any interest in keeping it up. Not even Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman...
...Cheney banged the drums the very next day, calling Gore's proposals "hogwash" and "double talk," and on Sunday Lieberman hit back - albeit in that high-road, why-are-they-attacking-us form of attack. "I don't know who that Dick Cheney was at the debate on Thursday night," Mr. Lieberman offered. "He was a rational, civil man and he goes back out and becomes an attack...