Mr. Nordlinger, I agree with you completely on everything you write about Dick Cheney, and I lived through and saw all of it, as you did. A great American statesman and patriot.
Because I am Roman [comma], Catholic…I have always been political and anti-statist, statist. So my first instinct is not to say I am sorry for the lose of your friend Jay. I am sorry for the lose of your friend. Much as I should like to believe Dick Cheney. Just as Trump has inadvertently varnished Nixons legacy as worst President in our lifetimes, I do not blame any man on the left for hating on so called Darth Vadar for serving Trickie Dick, who Cheney had to know was a corrupt President. I believe there is a strong, temporal argument that can be made that Trickie Dick is in …Neither were the war criminals they were black labeled as, but, to the Village Idiwitt a lot more innocents died because Nixon did not have Mao and Ho whacked, and instead aimed American blood and treasure at civilians. Sorry to open an old can of worms…if Cheney had been a political mastermind, he would have told Bush the Elder to leave U.S., I mean U.N. troops in Baghdad…until Sadamn came out, came out of whatever hole he was hiding…in 1991. Talk about a domino effect that would have started across the entire Middle East…All this coming from a man who would happily ask his daughter out, if I good, because unlike like that turd polisher Vivschmuck Ramaswamy, she has a set…even though she so stupidly ran the January 6th Commission like the senators got plunked by The Don in The Godfather….while, like Corleone, the President was guilty as charged. All in all, a life well lived by a supposed Neo con, as I am done reflecting on the many things he did wrong (like making like Bill Kristol in the voting booth, instead of Jonah Goldberg…after all, he lived in a one part state too). Again, sorry for the lose of my frenemy. Gotta run on. Peace be with you Jay, I do love your spirit of 76’
"Cheney begins, “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” I take issue with this: What about the leading Confederates? Still, Cheney has a point, and a case."
I could add a few more to that threat list ahead of The Donald, but doesn't mean he can't/hasn't done great damage to our republic and our culture. I was explaining to a liberal friend of mine over the weekend that, while he hates and fears Trump for how he directs governmental action, I think a few of those actions are OK, the majority: not so much. But I really don't fear him because there is a lot of ruin in a nation -- it can recover.
However, one of the reasons I truly dislike him (and my liberal friend doesn't really care) is for the way he has changed the Republican Party, an institution that I called my political home for 50 years. It is no longer my home. The GOP is no longer classically liberal; it is now a nationalist, populist party. Too bad. I miss the Reaganite GOP: like the PAC-12 and landlines, it is an institution of my youth that has faded away.
Mr. Cheney will always be my Vice President. My 5th son, Vlad, shares a birthday with Mr. Cheney. I sent him a card when Vlad was born (2006) and got a nice note back.
I liked Dick Cheney, even though I am not a conservative, and found his position on the Iraq War troubling. I particularly liked that Matt Labash enjoyed fly fishing with Darth Vader.
I think the impotent left demonised Dick Cheney
because they thought "W" was too stupid.
I had and retain complete respect for Cheney. His tar-n-feathering from left and now right seems anymore the natural reward of a just man.
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld — I won’t forget em
Or Liz 🙂
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Mr. Nordlinger, I agree with you completely on everything you write about Dick Cheney, and I lived through and saw all of it, as you did. A great American statesman and patriot.
Damn right
Because I am Roman [comma], Catholic…I have always been political and anti-statist, statist. So my first instinct is not to say I am sorry for the lose of your friend Jay. I am sorry for the lose of your friend. Much as I should like to believe Dick Cheney. Just as Trump has inadvertently varnished Nixons legacy as worst President in our lifetimes, I do not blame any man on the left for hating on so called Darth Vadar for serving Trickie Dick, who Cheney had to know was a corrupt President. I believe there is a strong, temporal argument that can be made that Trickie Dick is in …Neither were the war criminals they were black labeled as, but, to the Village Idiwitt a lot more innocents died because Nixon did not have Mao and Ho whacked, and instead aimed American blood and treasure at civilians. Sorry to open an old can of worms…if Cheney had been a political mastermind, he would have told Bush the Elder to leave U.S., I mean U.N. troops in Baghdad…until Sadamn came out, came out of whatever hole he was hiding…in 1991. Talk about a domino effect that would have started across the entire Middle East…All this coming from a man who would happily ask his daughter out, if I good, because unlike like that turd polisher Vivschmuck Ramaswamy, she has a set…even though she so stupidly ran the January 6th Commission like the senators got plunked by The Don in The Godfather….while, like Corleone, the President was guilty as charged. All in all, a life well lived by a supposed Neo con, as I am done reflecting on the many things he did wrong (like making like Bill Kristol in the voting booth, instead of Jonah Goldberg…after all, he lived in a one part state too). Again, sorry for the lose of my frenemy. Gotta run on. Peace be with you Jay, I do love your spirit of 76’
Other than Reagan there is no one I would have liked to see in the big job more than Cheney.
It was a simpler time, when the grown-ups ran the country.
Great essay. Couldn't agree more.
Thank you, George.
Bravo, Jay!!
Thank you so much.
"Cheney begins, “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” I take issue with this: What about the leading Confederates? Still, Cheney has a point, and a case."
I could add a few more to that threat list ahead of The Donald, but doesn't mean he can't/hasn't done great damage to our republic and our culture. I was explaining to a liberal friend of mine over the weekend that, while he hates and fears Trump for how he directs governmental action, I think a few of those actions are OK, the majority: not so much. But I really don't fear him because there is a lot of ruin in a nation -- it can recover.
However, one of the reasons I truly dislike him (and my liberal friend doesn't really care) is for the way he has changed the Republican Party, an institution that I called my political home for 50 years. It is no longer my home. The GOP is no longer classically liberal; it is now a nationalist, populist party. Too bad. I miss the Reaganite GOP: like the PAC-12 and landlines, it is an institution of my youth that has faded away.
Mr. Cheney will always be my Vice President. My 5th son, Vlad, shares a birthday with Mr. Cheney. I sent him a card when Vlad was born (2006) and got a nice note back.
I liked Dick Cheney, even though I am not a conservative, and found his position on the Iraq War troubling. I particularly liked that Matt Labash enjoyed fly fishing with Darth Vader.