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[H2O Man]

49. Cheney is very popular

among his family, and those corporations that capitalize on foreign wars. But he can communicate with these people in a non-public manner. He wasn't popular in the republican party by late 2007, and even W had cut his nuts off after the Plame scandal and the gross failure in Iraq.

W himself sticks by the unwritten rule that an ex-president does not speak ill of another holder of the office. His influence in the republican party today is shallow at very best. However, unlike Cheney, he might have some influence with some independent voters. There was a time when I wished it was W rather than his refrigerator-headed brother debating the felon. At least he wouldn't have put his tail between his legs like Jeb did.