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Article: Who's your daddy, GOP? Dick Cheney
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- May 20, 2009
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Dick Cheney is 68, white and bitter. He is the Republican Party today.
The Republican Party has no serious wing other than the Cheney wing. The moderate wing of the Republican Party is distinguished by the fact that it does not exist, and yet it is still shrinking.
Arlen Specter, senator from Pennsylvania, recently left the Republicans for the Democrats, and Jon Huntsman, the Republican governor of Utah, is joining the Obama administration as its ambassador to China.
After Huntsman's appointment was announced last week, article after article said he had been one of his party's "leading" candidates for the presidential nomination in 2012.
Leading candidate? With the possible exception of ...