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...Bush: The choice of Cheney strengthens the argument that even though George W. himself may not be widely experienced or knowledgeable, he has the good judgment to select sound people to work with him. This is a solid, low-anxiety choice (no devious political calculations in the decision, no faction-pleasing, no cunning) that reflects well upon W.'s leadership quality...
...Sympathetic to Bush: The choice plays the generational theme with subtlety. Cheney, an unflashy choice, is, first of all, a grownup. He adds maturity to the Republican ticket without making George W. Bush himself seem immature. (If W. does not seem an entirely persuasive grownup himself, by the way, it is startling to remember that , at 54, he is more than a decade older than John Kennedy was in 1960). Cheney signs on as a slightly older retainer, but not as a father figure - he's only 59 - who might make the presidential candidate seem callow. He is what...
...Cheney is also a connection to the past, to Bush the Father's administration. The choice means to suggest a reassuring continuity that was interrupted for eight years by the (it is to be inferred) adolescent regime of Bill Clinton. Prince W., running with one of his father's old chamberlains, gambles on the attraction of the logic of restoration - the reassertion of a disrupted order...
...only had no new ideas, it scarcely had a capacity to think at all. The presidency had become a Republican entitlement, a fat city country club. Who wants a restoration of that? Both Gore and Bush invite dynastic metaphors: Gore represents continuation of the House of Clinton. In choosing Cheney, W. implies the restoration of the House of the Georges, the status quo ante, a return to the land as it was before the time of Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky, though without the recession that ousted Bush the Father. Bush's choice of Cheney thus gives to the dynastic...
...whole, I think Cheney is a smart choice for Bush...