Come on! Who are these 5% of people who never heard of Dick Cheney?

Ugh. I wonder if they vote. (I wonder if they kow their own name?)

Pretty good rep for a guy who so narrowly avoided the gallows. War crimes, torture, and treason and all of that. Conservatives like him are the ones the Founding Fathers tried to warn us about.

Tells you all you need to know about the GOP that the award went to somebody who isn't even in office anymore...

Stuff like this makes me laugh out loud at Teh Stoopid, and the ideological, power-broker scum (Cheney) who take advantage of their misplaced patriotism.

And then a few minutes later, I cry inside realizing that Teh Stoopid are Americans, too.

When half of us fail, we all fail.

God damn Dick Cheney's shit-filled soul to hell.

God damn Dick Cheney's shit-filled soul to hell.

Um, yeah. That too.

Conservative true believers are a very weird lot, and the reverence for Dick Cheney shows just how delusional these folks really are. A few weeks ago K-Lo had a thing on NRO about white house spokeshuman Gibbs:

On Good Morning America this morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said: "I would be a busy man if all I did was respond to the poppings-off of the former vice president." I don't even think he wants to go there. I wouldn't want to get near the possibility of that match-up if I were Gibbs.

What the heck is this supposed to mean? Dick Cheney has some kind of superhuman mind powers that are going to strangle Gibbs while he sleeps? Five-deferment Dick is going to shoot him in the face? Seriously - WTF? He was the number two man in the worst presidential administration of modern times. An utter failure who's chief of staff was indicted and convicted of a felony - a crime in which he was obviously involved. He's overwhelmingly regarded as a discredited loser, an inept yet vaguely dangerous (he shoots people in the face!) old man with crackpot views. Yet Bolton and Lopez believe that America yearns for his leadership once again. This is completely nuts.

God damn Dick Cheney's shit-filled soul to hell.

. . . And into that lake filled with the boiling blood of his tens of thousands of innocent victims.

It's a sad commentary on the state of the conservative movement when someone who advocates indefinite detention without charges or trial, torture, warrantless wiretapping and the theory of the unitary executive can be conservative of the year.

If you folks need a good laugh on this Monday - check out the comments section following the article. It's a hoot!

"I suspect the DNC is delighted."

I suspect the DNC is already planning on how best to find a middle ground so as not to offend all of the Cheney supporters. Perhaps a few more concessions in the health care bill will do.

The article ran in print, which made it difficult for Bolton to dot the i's with little hearts.

Snap!

That's got to be one of the best lines this year. Thanks for a tremendous laugh, Benen.

And what Neill said. And Midland.

So Bolton tosses Cheney's salad, and tells the world how much he liked it. Ugh.

For better or worse, foreign policy is the only area where Obama scores reasonably well these days. Mission accomplished, Dick?

Boy o boy , that rascal cheeny is provocative .

Bang

There was a time I believed he had the powers of a super truculant teenager . I see now those are just his yearnings , his dreams inside his warped sense reality .

Wait ... Whats the difference ?

Isn't it a bit ironic to have a magazine named Human Events award this honor to Dick Cheney?

I'd like to see the DNA proof first. That he's human, that is.

Conservative true believers are a very weird lot, and the reverence for Dick Cheney shows just how delusional these folks really are.

A few months ago, I saw my first Bush/Cheney '12 bumper sticker. No shit. Of course, the car it was on was being towed by a behemoth of an RV. So i guess it made sense.

Cheney's quiet, inner-directed motivation is simply impervious to the attacks [...]

Cheney is impervious because his plastic outer shell, covering the mechanical, computerised, secrets within, was made impermeable to things such as basic, human, emotions. It is ironic in the extreme that something called *Human* Events should pick that rogue robot as its "man" of the year...

You mean the current crowd of 'conservatives' found someone who they think is far enough to the right? That's surprising. Oh, but he's not in office. Ok, that's consistent.

"Cheney's quiet, inner-directed motivation is simply impervious to the attacks"

So, Bolton agrees that Cheney's motivation is all directed inwardly, towards himself?

That gets a golf-clap for accuracy, but I don't think Bolton thought this line through.

Just one more piece of evidence that conservatives live in a world not unlike the Bizarro universe of Superman comics where smart is dumb, evil is good and black is white. How can Democrats possibly find middle ground or reach compromise with people like Bolton, who is quite obviously crazier than a shithouse rat?

The scary thing is that during the last Bush Administration, we went only HALF WAY to the policies and action that these Bizarro World wingers. And the answer of Cheney and Bolton and their fellow travelers to all of Bush's failures and disasters is to double down - and argue passionately for GOING ALL THE WAY NEXT TIME.

The Cheney radicals aren't just doubling down and refusing to listen or learn. They are embedding their extreme policies in cement, and declaring war on reality, evidence, causation, and rationality. Articles like this show that they are nattering among themselves, and making big plans about what they will do if and when they get back into power.

And that is bad, people. Very bad. They ought to have been repudiated. And they haven't been. And that means that they could make a full comeback in today's radicalized GOP.

"Cheney, after all, failed spectacularly in government."

Hardly. What he set out to do, he accomplished, and that structure remains in place today, unchanged and unchallenged.

Why isn't Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell not reviled on the intertubes on a regular basis? Why doesn't he have a cool nickname like 'Kitty Kevorkian' Frist?

Because he doesn't matter. At all. To anyone.

Anyone with a political pulse can give you an opinion of McCain, and most of us who even follow politics in a cursory way can explain why Cornyn and Coburn are people to be targeted and actively scorned but Mitch is just another grey-headed white guy bobbing around in the Sea of No. This guy is at any given time within one vote of having absolute veto power over just about ANYTHING. Yet when was the last time you saw his name in headlines?

Now clearly John 'Boner' Boehner has the advantage of looking like an oddly attractive lizard even before he tears off his mask but I suspect only the most dedicated of political wonks could pick the Senate Minority Leader out of a police lineup of sixty something white men. He might look vaguely familiar, like some extra you saw on CSIS: Miami or something but otherwise the only nickname he is likely to draw is 'Nebbish'.

On paper this guy is the most important Republican in the country and is conservative as you can get and still fall on this side of human (a test which Coburn fails) but he is probably a dozen or more spots back on the Conservative of the Year list to a Weeping Rodeo Clown and a Moose Killing Over-age Beauty Queen and Michael Steele (who I have a nickname for but which while accurate enough is kind of offensive).

Kind of sucks to be the fifteenth member of the troupe to come out of the GOP Clown Car.

(A Google search on 'McConnell 2012' returned six links to a Cafe Press style customized t-shirt and coffee mug site plus real estate info on 2012 McConnell Rd, Greensboro NC and goes down fast from there. Apparently you would need a micrometer to measure the groundswell of support for Mitch for just about anything.)

good grief, forget the kneepads...this is full on 69ing in public..i thought conservatives hated teh gay....

ps..i find it hard to believe that bolton actually knows any "fellow citizens" outside the neocon bubble

Bokonon is right. This is setting the stage PNAC Part II.

No Cheney was not successful in his plan. If you review the full schedule as laid out at the Project for the New American Century the full agenda of the Cheney/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld/Bolton cabal went like this:

2003: invade Iraq, topple Saddam, install Chalabi, have Iraq recognize Israel, have oil contracts signed by Fall to pay for phases 2-5.
2004: use the excuse of hidden WMDs to invade Syria and so cut off aid to Hezbollah and then follow up with an invasion and occupation of Southern Lebanon to eliminate their threat to Israel for once and for all
Win re-election in a landslide. Introduce bill to kill Social Security.
2005: use something anything (past support of Hezbollah?) to launch a joint Israeli-US aerial attack on Iranian nuclear facilities while flooding Iranian dissident group like MEK with weapons to launch a civil war. 'Charley' Cheney's War 2.0 (Send condolence cards to all the occupation troops in Iraq who get targetted by Iranian suicide bombers)
2006: take out Korea's nuclear capability and while at it bomb every significant military facility. (Send condolence card to Seoul after North Korean artillery turns it into rubble and ashes). Take that you Axis of Evil!!!
2007: Revisit 1949 and figure out how to roll back those Commie Chinese
2008: Having embroiled the US in a war with China which will maybe, possibly not go nuclear pick new puppet to wear that spiffy Commander in Chief gear while still running the show from a 'Undisclosed location'.

Now THAT's a plan! Except maybe they would have replaced China with a Tri-fecta of Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.

I wish this was a joke, there is every evidence that this is what the Vulcans had in mind. Too bad stage one depended crucially on a convicted con-man actually delivering the goods

Wow, Human Events is so out of touch with the deficit-hawk teabaggers! Remember Cheney saying, "Reagan taught us deficits don't matter"? Those neocons, when will they and the "populist" right have it out? /snark