CNN: Cheney not expected to attend GOP convention

[MiniMe]

This is just funny.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Will Vice President Cheney be a no-show at the Republican convention in Minnesota?

Republican officials say yes, citing a desire by Sen. John McCain's campaign to turn the page on the Bush-Cheney years. One GOP official told CNN there's a "mutual understanding" between Cheney's office and the McCain camp that he is "unlikely" to attend the convention.

A second Republican official said there are still "talks going on" between Cheney's office and the McCain camp and both sides are "still trying to work it out."

The conservative American Spectator first reported Monday Cheney, who has low national approval ratings but is still popular among conservatives, is not expected to attend the convention.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers side-stepped a question about whether the Senator has invited Cheney, saying the campaign has "not announced the speakers or any details" about the convention at this point.

Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell also told CNN the details for the convention are still in flux. "His schedule for next week has not even been set-up," Mitchell said, suggesting there has been no final decision on the convention.

[NightWatcher]

1. No Dick!: Pottery Barn Policy. You Break It, You Bought It

[malaise]

2. Is anyone going?

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :rofl:

[MiniMe]

3. Larry Craig is going, but dammit he isn't going through the Minneapolis Airport

:rofl:

[malaise]

4. LOL

:rofl:

[MiniMe]

5. On Race to the Whitehouse yesterday, they said that * will speak at

the convention on Labor Day when nobody is paying attention, then they will probably announce the VP pick the day after. Apparently they don't want too many people noticing that * is there. :rofl:

[KharmaTrain]

6. Wanna Bet You Can Get A Hotel Room In Town Cheap That Week

Well maybe not...there's gonna be 15,000 Paulbot also in town. :rofl:

So let's see...boooshie will sneak in and out on Monday...unfortunately they can't keep him away. So whose the keynote? Mittens? Rushbo? James Dobson? BillO?

[Virginia Dare]

7. The repukes are just no fun any more...n/t

[whistle]

8. Cheney meeting in secret yet again!

[hopewell1985]

9. GOP

implode

[freesqueeze]

10. why invite he-who-would-not-be-named

or his vice president. the verbal fixers of the GOP need to come up with a whole new term for the bush years and the total failure it embodies.

How about the years of lies and poses?

[rateyes]

11. I see they're trying to keep at least one

turd out of the punchbowl.

[DemoTex]

12. Speaking of toxic waste: Will Rove be at the convention?

I sure hope so!

[sentelle]

13. does that mean that Tricky Dick

Is going to send AlQaeda (or military/Blackwater mercs dressed as AlQaeda) there, and then blame it on Iran, just so we can invade them, take it over, merge it with Iraq and call the combined country 'Irate'?

Just a question...