16 June 2008
As I see it, Dick Cheney, who sits at the bottom of a National approval rating scale, is not going to be part of campaigning for McCain. The two never really saw eye to eye and I’m sure that McCain advisors will not link the two. If Cheney wants to see McCain get elected, the best thing that he can do for him is stay away. He may be a very effective fundraiser but as long as the Democrats promote McCain as an extension of the Bush administration, I think that Cheney will be left out in the cold.
The conservative base of the republican party is Cheney’s strongest suit and McCain’s weakest. That may be an area where he could be used in the campaign because the conservative base is pretty weak right now. That use of Cheney may be just wishing on the republicans part, as McCain has rubbed Cheney the wrong way on several issues. To name one, his views on Cheney’s friend Rumsfeld, who McCain said would “go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.†In one interview with McCain he said Bush “listened too much to the vice president†and had been “very badly served by both the vice president and, most of all, the secretary of defense.†McCain seems to be a bit of a flip flopper as in a 2006 interview referring to Cheney he said “I will strongly assert to you that he has been of enormous help to this president of the United States.†So where the heck does he stand when it comes to Cheney?
Speaking at the National Press Club last week, Cheney shot down McCain’s idea of a gas tax holiday, the first time that I every agreed with Cheney was with that remark. In my opinion he was right on the mark when he said such a holiday would not have much impact on the total cost of a gallon of gas. I think that well out of the limelight we’ll see Cheney stumping for McCain in hard core conservative areas, as that is what some members of Congress want.
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