Word: cheneys
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...Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's running mate, has survived three (mild) heart attacks and one coronary bypass surgery. And while the appointment of the older and more experienced Cheney is being touted as adding "gravitas" to Bush's campaign, the presumptive veep candidate's health history adds a different note of seriousness that the Republican ticket may find difficult to dismiss...
...clear: Nobody's saying the vice president has to be able to compete in a triathlon while he's in office. But he really should be able to fulfill another, less challenging job requirement: He should be able to stay alive. And while Cheney is hardly lingering on death's door - doctors assure us he's not even in death's neighborhood - the GOP's decision to present a 59-year-old with serious cardiac health issues as the best candidate to play back-up to a younger, fitter presidential candidate is raising eyebrows in the medical community...
...Gore's chameleon skin must be breaking out. Now that George W. Bush has announced Tuesday that Dick Cheney is to be his presidential life partner - and he is striking a squinty, horizonward-gaze sort of pose - he will give Al Gore all the choices he can dream of. Maybe more choices than Al Gore is comfortable with...
...wait two weeks at least, let the Cheney introduction play out in the press and watch Philadelphia on cable TV. See who salutes, and measure the bounce that the Bush-Cheney ticket - a dreamy promise of a return to the Bush family's salad days - gets in the polls. Average is 6-10 percent, anything more or less will throw Gore into a paroxysm of calculation...
...shouldn't. Gore is looking through his sights at a ticket that is defiantly not improved, just rounded out a bit. The Bush camp is saying that George W. Bush is enough, and that the Cheney choice just puts a slight emphasis on the Bush part of the ticket. That emphasis may turn some people off; it will inspire others. Some it will bore...