Statement from Former Vice President Dick Cheney

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Link to tweet

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Wow!

[anciano]

2. Agreed 👍

[displacedvermoter]

3. I am kinda stunned.

I actually believe this will actually change some minds.

I now think Shrub will do the same. I am especially hoping Laura Bush endorses Harris as well. I think she would influence some older Republican women.

[MagickMuffin]

11. Laura should definitely endorse Teachers Tim and Gwen

The VP gets the main vote of course. But teachers to teachers are ready to teach us again. Come on Laura, support our teachers!

[Gaytano70]

35. Maybe this is the roll out....

First Liz
Then Dick
Then Laura
And finally, W?

[Sucha NastyWoman]

82. I believe Laura has always leaned a little Democratic anyway

So this shouldn’t be hard for her at all.

[Sequoia]

26. Shrub......

Remind me how he got this nickname.....?

[Gaytano70]

32. Little Bush

[vanlassie]

76. Awarded to him by the Late Great Molly Ivins.

May She Rest in Peace. We could have used her to get us thru Trump tho 😢

[EarnestPutz]

87. Jeez, you're right. She was the best.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

34. I never thought...

… I’d ever care about what Shrubya thinks about anything ever again. What a weird time to be alive!

[Gaytano70]

38. Strange bedfellows, indeed!

But then again, W and Michelle Obama are kinda giggling besties

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Kamala Harris was a heavyweight choice for VP. Law and Order.

Thank you, President Biden.

Even Dick Cheney, former VP, knows she was a good choice.

[FirstLight]

5. Hope the old Repubs are listening...

the ones who were more like John McCain and the "Grand Old Party" not Q-anon freaks...

really stunning to th8ink even though we consider them pretty awful (vile) ...they are actually really concerned for the Constitution...?

(...or are some of these ppl also on DJT's hit-list, and therefore not ok with him winning and throwing them in the FEMA Camps...?)



Either way, I'll take it....GO Kamala!

[a kennedy]

15. Ya mean the damn repubs that'll clap tRump on the back in public, but in private

hope he doesn’t win?? Ugh.....At lest Cheney has the balls to say it.

[tanyev]

6. Whew, we do live in interesting times.

I’m so ready for it to settle down and be less interesting.

[Aristus]

80. Right there with you.

I so, so, SO want to live in boring times!…

[musclecar6]

7. Excellent

We need all the help we can get. Dick Cheney kept it short and simple. He keyed in on the fact that Trump mounted an insurrection against our country. That alone is so far down the road of bad things, he must never be in the White House again. Mic drop.

[bullimiami]

8. I guess there's a line even a heartless dick won't cross.

Well. Good.

[japple]

16. As Doc Holliday once said "My hypocrisy goes only so far." Or at least that is one of the

lines delivered by the Doc Holliday character in the movie "Toombstone."

[BattleRow]

17. Big Dick vs Little Dick

and his sidekick ,No Nuts.

[VMA131Marine]

29. To be fair ...

it’s someone else’s heart …

[BattleRow]

45. Will this alter the painting in

his attic?

[3catwoman3]

64. When I heard that Cheney had received a heart transplant, my immediate thought...

...was, "I hope it wasn't from a Democrat. What a waste of a good heart that would be."

[vanlassie]

77. I see what you did there...

Five heart attacks and a new heart. The devil’s been tryin to get em.

[mucifer]

9. I think it's the putin stuff that convinced dick cheney.

[erronis]

42. I think you are right. Cheney far preferred to deal with the Middle East oil barons and princes.

[Taraman]

10. I'm a lifelong Democrat but I think America needs a national unification around our basic ideals

and to throw off the meanness that has infected us.

With only one remaining party, the Democratic Party, it's possible. It's a big tent, but it's one tent -- America.

[ShazzieB]

21. I agree 100%!

[erronis]

43. Political parties have shown themselves to be damaging to true democracy.

They promote fealty to the bosses of the party rather than the good of the country.

I don't remember which of the founding fathers thought that they could become a scourge if allowed too much power...

[ProfessorGAC]

60. Hamilton I Believe

This seems to confirm that.
https://www.history.com/news/founding-fathers-political-parties-opinion

[Ligyron]

57. Exactly.

I ask myself: who benefits from pitting one side of the country against the other?

[StarryNite]

12. Crazy times.

The same day I'm so disappointed in a judge for not treating Dump the same way the rest of us would have been treated I find out that somebody who I no respect for in the past I am finding myself giving kudos too.

[thesquanderer]

13. I hope they make commercials of this that are played on Fox and talk radio. (n/t)

[sheshe2]

14. I may not like the man...

However this is good news.

[a kennedy]

18. I really wonder if repubs give a shit what two Cheney's have to say......

She was on the impeachment trial case wasn’t she?? And him?? He, I’m sure doesn’t have the MAGA repubs anyway.....so.....ok, just hope a few of the old guard repubs will change their mind because of the Cheney’s. *keeping fingers crossed*

[ailsagirl]

24. I don't like Cheney...

but this news is very encouraging. Maybe other repukes will follow.

[obamanut2012]

27. Old School ones do

Plenty of CA Repubs moved to Az.

[underpants]

31. Yeah. This probably peals some votes or no-votes hoping in the right places

[obamanut2012]

36. Yup, it gives them permission to vote for Harris

[LudwigPastorius]

75. Indeed.

To them, anyone who isn’t in thrall of the Orange Anus is a RINO.

[central scrutinizer]

19. He should invite TSF to go hunting with him

[LetMyPeopleVote]

99. Sounds like a good plan

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[ailsagirl]

20. It IS huge!!

[BaronChocula]

22. Wow. Coming from the guy

who used lies to get us into a war (no, I haven't forgotten), that's pretty big.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

23. It's Official - We've entered an alternate reality. We're in a parallel universe. nt

[obamanut2012]

25. Hell has frozen over

I agree with Darth Cheney.

[Ocelot II]

28. This was very much not on my bingo card.

It's to the point where I wonder if I did take the brown acid despite the warnings to avoid it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

102. This was also NOT on my bingo card

[BoRaGard]

30. Thanks Dick

[markodochartaigh]

33. In 2015

Republicans were going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate but, because Trump was so wildly popular with the 80% of their base who are authoritarians, they realized that they could not win without him. So they put party over country and chose a Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy as their candidate. From the start there were some Republican politicians who didn't support Trump, mostly they were those who could afford to tank their political careers.

Unfortunately, through Trump's buffoonish mismanagement, overt corruption, and bottom-line centered management of the worst pandemic in a century, his approval with Republicans stayed about 80%. After the (bungled) first coup attempt in US history his approval dropped for a while. But when he wasn't personally held to account his approval rate gradually returned to its previous level.

For a democracy to be functional there have to be at least two viable parties committed to democracy. The US is one party shy of a democracy. Unless and until the Republicans can wrench their party out of the control of the 80% of Republicans who are authoritarians, or OK with authoritarianism as long as they are in control, or can develop a viable new party committed to democracy, democracy in the US will be one election away from failure.

[cab67]

37. enemy of my enemy may not be my friend,

but he's at least a temporary ally.

[TomSlick]

49. I am reminded of a Churchhill quote.

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

[anamnua]

88. From The Tempest by Shakespeare:

‘’misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past.”

[MLF1981]

39. Wow!

Coming from Darth Cheney himself, this is a real surprise! That said, his endorsement of Kamala does make me feel... very conflicted.

[TomSlick]

50. I'm not conflicted in the least.

Even Cheney recognizes the clear and present danger Trump presents to the Republic.

[MLF1981]

53. True...

But being on the same side as one of the most evil people in the last 30 years does feel kind of strange.

[TomSlick]

56. See my post 49 above.

Compared to Trump, Cheney is a piker in the world of evil.

[slightlv]

83. I guess Cheney thinks *rump's version

of a "Unitary Executive" goes a bit farther than he's comfortable with; since Cheney and Shrub were 100% behind the Unitary Executive program. Either that, or it's the wrong Unitary Executive!

Geesh... Hell Freezes Over, indeed! I wondered if Liz would be talking to her Dad about all this, but I never thought Darth Cheney would come out and endorse Kamala, not to mention say he was voting for her! Not on my bingo card at any time...

[EverHopeful]

94. Guess that Unitary Executive thing is bad if the wrong executive gains power

Last edited Sat Sep 7, 2024, 11:30 AM - Edit history (1)

Who could possibly have imagined a problem like that--other than anyone with a few functioning brain cells.

Seems like the usual R default mode. In this case, Unitary Executive for me but not for thee. Just like Law and order for thee but not for me and government handouts for me but not for thee.

That old one: I never expected the leopards to eat my face, sobbed the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party comes to mind. Rs don't like to face the consequences of the policies that are designed to help them and hurt others.

Editing to add that the Unitary Executive theory is awful and hope I didn't sound as if I was supporting it for Darth Cheney.

[slightlv]

95. Nope, I didn't think you were support Cheney...

and I agree, the Unitary Executive theory is truly awful and undemocratic. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, and others have been working to make it happen since I was at least a teenager. He really wanted Bush to be the first in the line for Proof of Idea (that would make him the power behind the throne, IMO). But I will give Cheney points for coming right out and saying T should never be anywhere near an office of power ever again. It's a low bar we're giving them for standing up for democracy, but that's all we can expect from
R's at this point. Too many of them have been brainwashed since childhood... a lot of them, thanks to the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[MoonchildCA]

84. He's not endorsing her based on any of her policies,

I assure you.

I truly believe these Republican endorsements are by no means, transactional. These people see that our country, as we know it, may cease to exist if Trump is elected.

[Mr. Evil]

40. Ol' Dickie didn't get his way with the PNAC,

so... he can't stand Donnie Rich Kid getting ahead because of it? Fuck him and his bullshit endorsement!

Kamala is the real deal and we sure don't need Dick(head) Cheney to prove it!

[Clouds Passing]

41. That's all good Dick...

But what you did got us to this point

[NH Ethylene]

44. Hell hath frozen over.

I despise this man. But every little bit helps.

The silence from the Bushes is getting a bit louder now that the evil Cheney has spoken.

[obamanut2012]

47. I am betting they are waiting to endorse on purpose

[NH Ethylene]

48. That would be a good strategy.

And could have a significant impact.

[Dem4life1970]

46. It is stunning how far we've come...

...I always referred to Dick Cheney as "Darth Cheney" or a "Sith Lord" but wow...he was
Honest Abe compared to Don the Con(vict). No comparison. He lost me at birtherism and a million things in between that and January 6th. Jan. 6 was a shocker. If he could do that, there is no bottom.

[AllyCat]

51. Darth???

That is really something right there.

[Klarkashton]

52. That's absolutely profound. Historic.

Puts this crazy ass media horse race into perspective.

[Xolodno]

54. When a Sith Lord thinks you gone too far...

...you have gone too far!

[Bird Lady]

55. Nicole Wallace said it just right.

Hell has frozen over. It is hard for me to believe that Darth Vader is voting for a democrat.
I will suspend disbelief and hope he is actually going to do what he says.

[TheCowsCameHome]

58. Wonderful.

When Dick Cheney turns the corner, you know Trump is toast.

[bdamomma]

59. Okay

who's next to promote the truth about the felon???? Step up now!!!!!

[Lunabell]

61. Well, I'll be damned!

This is a day I never thought I'd see. I am really, really shocked. I wish Bush would do the same.

[dalton99a]

62. Excellent, actually

[Mysterian]

63. Bush republicans are still the scum of the Earth

but they float above the bilge that are trump cultists.

[bdamomma]

65. They still are the scum

of the earth, do we still hear crickets from them? Such cowards they are.

[Red Mountain]

66. I went straight here.....

[LeftInTX]

67. Maybe he has a terminal illness and doesn't want to go to the bad place at the end?

[SpankMe]

68. How fucking bad does a candidate have to be

that the LITERAL Darth Vader of your party votes for the other candidate. This is stunning.

In my book, Dick Cheney was/is worse that W. Bush and Reagan.

But, I'll say this much about these very old-school Republicans: they still revere the raw basics of our constitutional republic and are able to recognize fascist threats from within.

[Mysterian]

74. They would be fine installing AWOL Bush as dictator

but not clown car imbecile Trump.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

70. Hell has frozen over

Link to tweet

[PortTack]

71. One good deed

[Orrex]

72. Maybe he could invite Trump on a hunting trip, as a gesture of goodwill

[usregimechange]

73. Well said. All hands on deck.

[Nanjeanne]

78. Thank you for your vote. Other than that stay as far away from the Democratic Party as you can you

war criminal piece of shit.

[Voltaire2]

79. War criminal.

We have a divided oligarchy. The old establishment has made a deal. A cut in the proposed unrealized gains tax on billionaires from 40 to 28, and voila they are on board.

But the new fascist aren’t done yet. October should be interesting.

[bluedigger]

81. I'm going out to the airport tomorrow morning.

It should be a nice day to watch the pigs practice their take offs and landings.

[NoSheep]

85. late

[D23MIURG23]

86. I'm speechless. n/t

[NBachers]

89. George? George?? Are you listening?

[Marcuse]

90. "Vote for Harris"

[anamnua]

91. Wow!

For a man who has done much to destabilize the Middle-East he has had quite a Damascene/Pauline conversion.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

92. Kamala Harris is so unifying that she got the endorsement of Luke Skywalker AND Darth Vader

Link to tweet

[Oopsie Daisy]

93. I can't believe that SOB is still alive. I guess evil never dies.

[appleannie1]

97. You've got to remember, he got a new heart. That statement is proof.

[appleannie1]

96. In all my years, that is a first.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

98. Kamala Harris on Liz and Dick Cheney endorsement: I'm honored to have their support

Link to tweet

[Nixie]

100. It's interesting that the Cheneys' haven't issued demands or conditions

of Harris for their support like what's-his-name does.

That makes it look like they actually know and believe the Trump threat. Maybe Cheney still gets Intel briefings and sees directly that trump is a traitor.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

101. You really have to be corrupt to lose Dick Cheney's vote

l