I have recently come to the conclusion, that Dick Cheney is going to run for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2008, and will probably be nominated on the first ballot. His running mate-Sweet little Condi-Pie. What a combo. And I bet they win. Maybe by a landslide, depending on how things go. Of course, health is a factor, but I'm sure Dick will be good to go, for one term anyway. I can't see him going for a second, admittedly, but one term will be enough to pave the way certainly for Condi to stage a run of her own in 2012. Her running mate? Probably Jeb, who will probably in 2020-but you get the picture.
Naturally, all this depends on a bunch of factors, the war in Iraq, the general state of the economy, and at long last, the recent Energy Bill passed by President Bush. If it ends up bringing down the price of oil, or at least reigning it in to manageable levels, that would be one good plus. If the Bill results in more oil refineries being buildt, which it should, that will help as well. Then, of course, the prospect of more nuclear power plants being built might be just on the horizen.
That leaves the war in Iraq, and the all around war on terror. If it too is going well, especially if our troops are by this time out of Iraq, an the all around national security of thecountry is determined by the voters to be on solid ground, and substantially improved, yet another notch on the old Dick.
Finally, the economy. If both of the previously mentioned factors go as hoped for by the administration, the economy should be in fairly good shape. The deficit will still be high, resulting in an ever increasing national debt, but as long as unemployment is held down to reasonably low levels, who really pays the attention to the deficit that they should anyway. After all, thanks to the Housing Market, which will still be going strong probably for some time yet, and thanks in addition to the artificially low levels of interest rates, which should even now by all rights be at least twice as high as they are now, the economy should hum along, with help from cheap imported goods from all those Third World countries that are busy buying up our debt like old fags at an antique mall.
In other words, no, the economy is not in good shape, it just looks good. Whenthe economy is in good shape, you make more money, not less for putting in more hours, and then having to pay increased state and local taxes and insurance rates so that even if you do make more, you end up making less. You usually get to take a paid vacation ever so often as well,by the way, which more and more Americans are finding themselves able to do less and less.
But appearrances are all that matters at election time, and come election time, the economy will also be aided, to a great extent, by residual effects of this years Highway Bill, in addition to cetain aspects of the aforementioned Energy Bill. Not that this is bad, by the way, they probably will create jobs, improve the energy situation, etc. But the good effects will mask the bad omens that more people should learn to pay attention to, but do not, and will not.
And the democrats will, of course, give the republicans plenty of ammunition, demanding peace at any price, or at least not being able to convince the average voter they are trustworthy when it comes to matters of national security-which is the same difference.
And of course a good many democratic activists will bitch and fume about the nuclear power plants Bush wants to build, which would actually be good for the environment, but who cares-nuclear energy is bad, so they're going to be against it. And they will be against building new oil refineries, as well, or anything else that would help us to reduce our dependancy on foreign oil that doesn't involve windmills.
In other words, when the democratic activists are right about something-for example, the need to develop alternative energy sources- well and good, but they can't leave well enough alone. They have to be against everything else as well. They think everything ought to be done their way, right then, right there, and everybody else ought to have to fall into line, and if you don't like it, fuck you. As a result, they cause the Democratic party to lose election, after election, after election-and they still are just too fucking stupid to get it. They still run their mouths about gun control, about ending the death penalty, about peace at any price. And wonder why most Americans wouldn't vote for them for anything substantially higher than dog-cathcer.
Thus, the issues that they are right about, andthere are many of them, in fact, will never be acomplished. Because of their own unreasonableness. Because of their own stupidity. Because of their hatefulness, their arrogance, their unwillingness to compromise, even when it is obvious it would be actually to their advantage to do so.
Yeah, Cheney will run. After all, even though the smart money for the time being is on John McCain to get the 2008 Repoublican Preidential nomination, face it, the Republican Party owns the smart money, and they are the ones who will dole it out. And most Republicans don't really like John McCain. Not the ones in control of the party, at any rate. So Cheney will run. And Condi will be his running mate, I am sure, depending, again, on how circumstances evolve.
And if the Democratic Party doesn't reign in their activists-in fact, I am all for giving them a hearty recommendation to the Green Party if they don't get their shit together-it is irrelevant who the Democrats nominate. Probably Hillary Clinton and Elliot Richardson, but again, it's irrelevant, really, who the Republicans nominate. Anybody they choose is a shoe-in for election, as long as the Far Left is perceived as being the face and the voice of the Democratic Party.
Yes, I know the Far Right is just as bad. They're no worse, but they are as bad, I'll concede. So what difference does it make? Well, the American public has been sick of the Far Left for going on thirty years now. The Far Right has some catching up to do.
