Most Republicans have a pretty good idea of values

The values are neither the problem nor the motivatiion. For Republicans, they are merely the rationale used for justifying outrageous policies.

Vicious old control freak can't let go. He's all yours, Republicans. Good luck getting rid of him.

"...what the role of government should be in our society, and our commitment to the Constitution and constitutional principles," - Dick Cheney

Mr. "Fourth Branch" speaks of constitutional principles? Now there's a laffer for ya.

When can we put a stake through the Undead Cheney?

He's probably as well regarded as Tiberious was during his later years on the Isle of Capri.

This is bizzare. We don't hear a peep from Cheney for eight years. Then he leaves office as the VP, and he is all over the teevee for a few months, and NOW he is doing a "farewell tour" like he is an actual vote-getting politician and not a party aparatchik.

There really are an infinity of alternate universes and Republicans seem to live in all of them simultaneously.

"This weekend, Cheney is scheduled to appear on CBS's "Face the Nation." It's all part of his plan to "move on and make room for that young talent that's coming along.""

Good ole Sticky Dick

It helps clear away some of the underbrush.

They really shouldn't act more like Democrats. That niche is taken. The Democrats tried to act more like Republicans when they were down and out. It got us Clinton and little more. On the other hand, I have a hard time understanding just what the are fundamental Republican "beliefs, values and ideas." Small government? Not really. The government has grown every time the Republicans have been in charge. Individual freedom? As long as the Peeping Tom bedroom police hold say, that is a big "NO." Lower taxes? For the rich maybe. For the rest of us, not so much. Expanding opportunity for all Americans? A REALLY BIG NO. They are owned lock, stock and barrel by the current power elite. They are big time crony capitalists. They will never give a new or little guy a break.

Cheney is right about one thing, if the Republicans hope to recover, the current generation has to retire or otherwise leave the scene. As long as he and Rush Limbaugh are the faces of the Republican party the Democrats have the field to themselves. Therein lies my greatest worry. We need a two party system. Otherwise the Democrats could become just as bad as the Republicans have been over the last 16 years. We really wouldn't want one party rule. That is the path to decline and collapse. Just ask the Mexicans how domination by Institutional Revolutionary Party for most of the 20th century brought real democracy and prosperity to what should be a prosperous land.

And, may I "pile on" and say, Well Said, Mr Byers?

I, for one, can't wait till he returns to the undisclosed rock he dwells under. Nonetheless, someone should follow him back to it so the World Court can serve him their subpoena for his guest shot apparance at the Hague. A truly nauseaing individual if ever there was one, that Darth fellow...

Cheney should indeed move on, but his exit should be guided firmly by those he has wronged. He belongs in a cell for the rest of his life, and his money belongs in a fund to compensate (impossible) his victims. Anyone who wants to consult this destructive Republican dinosaur should be free to do so on visiting day, separated by plexiglass, or via monitored mail and telephone communications.

check out this bit of delusion;

http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/05/06/dear-black-americans-democrats-deliberately-hold-your-children-down/

and this comment in particular;

"Well stated, and gets to the heart of the matter. Rush Limbaugh said that we conservatives NEED to start promoting the message that the democrats are not kind and loving - they are the most dangerous kind of cruel. Their policies and entitlements are designed not to improve the lives of those they purport to help, but rather only to improve their chance for reelection and a continuing culture of corruption."

these are the people Cheney is speaking to. They are the lobotomized among us.

Dick Cheney is like the obnoxious cousins who keep staying an extra day.

The only question I have is why is Cheney being invited to speak on Meet the Press? He is not an officer of the current administration and has no role in policy decisions. He is, at best, a defender of the past not unlike Rove, Newt, Bolton, Palin and the rest of the losing crowd. Is this another example of the "liberal" media attempting to be unbiased or another example of the fact that the mass media is firmly in the grasp of the right wing???

his farewell tour is lasting longer than cher's. how soon before commemorative t-shirts are available?

How can we miss him if he won't go away?

via monitored mail and telephone communications.

I like that. A taste of his own medicine you might say.

Therein lies my greatest worry. We need a two party system.

True, but for the reasons you iterated in your above paragraph (and concluded with "They are big time crony capitalists") I don't think I'll miss this current batch of Republican opposition much. We as a country, desperately need to move past the petty bickering of the current system (or players).

It would be nice if we lived in a stable world in which our only disagreement was over abortion. But alas, there are other things that go bump in the night. The serious problems out there need to be met with head on, and the current opposition party is acting like the only evils worth worrying about are estate taxes and abortions in the first two trimesters. Only one of which, by the way, they really give a damn about.

I accept your premise and your conclusion, but only if the Republican party we've come to know, slips quietly into the night. To be a truly strong nation, we need good faith opposition, not an oligarchy party cloaked in "American values".

Why is this man still being interviewed on mainstream media??? He is the failed symbol of a failed administration that is now gone (thankfully). He says the same thing over and over again. The problem is not Cheney, but the people who keep inviting him on to their shows and the people who keep reporting what he says. If the media stops covering him, he will stop coming on. I don't ever want to hear about him or from him again, unless it's his obit.

Dianaw

So long Dick...Forget to write!

his farewell tour is lasting longer than cher's.

This is more of a Blagojevich tour.

"Most Republicans have a pretty good idea of values, and aren't eager to have someone come along and say, 'Well, the only way you can win is if you start to act more like a Democrat.'"

Someone already came along and told you to start acting like Democrats: the American people, back in November.

Or did you not notice that?

If only someone would lure him into his man-sized safe, using unfiltered Lucky Strikes, whiskey and the screams of the tortured as bait, then slam the door.

Man, he loves the spotlight now, doesn't he?

Cheney needs to keep in mind that the Libertarian Party has a core set of ideas and values as does the Constitution Party and the Green Party. What they are missing is a constituency. Americans are increasingly realizing that Republicans are really lousy at running a government and their economic policies don't work for the majority of people.

The GOP needs to have Cheney gone.

He's as toxic to his party as Manny is to his sport.

Methinks Dick wants one more chance to say GFY to a reporter.

Remember, this guy can't even shoot a shot-gun properly.

Didn't he already make his exit - in a wheelchair? Should have been in a tumbril.

Meet the Press has Cheney on so that when he critiques what the current administration is doing, his comments are quoted with:

"Dick Cheney on Meet the Press Sunday said..."

It's for ratings. Which is as disgusting as Cheney's policy on torture is.

Ron Byers writes: "They really shouldn't act more like Democrats. That niche is taken. The Democrats tried to act more like Republicans when they were down and out. It got us Clinton and little more."

No, Dem spinelessness also got us the Iraq war, the latter SCOTUS justices, torture, and every other hideous Rethug policy that they helped along. If only Dems acted like Dems with conviction, it wouldn't matter so much what Rethugs did.

The DNCC should publicly urge Limbaugh and Cheney to immediately form the 2012 GOP Purity Ticket so they can get a head start on driving off the few remaining sane Republicans and GOP-leaning independents. By election day they'd be down to that rock-hard kernel of nothing other than nuts and loons, otherwise known as "the base."