Dick Cheney Makes Surprise Appearance At CPAC, Re-Uses Past Line

Former Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, met by a thunderous applause of a surprised and adoring crowd.

Taking the stage with his daughter Liz -- a scheduled speaker at the event -- his appearance spurred immediate shouts from the crowd, urging him to consider a presidential bid. "Cheney 2012!" yelled one man. He flashed a huge smile.

"A welcome like that is almost enough to make me want to run for office again," Cheney replied playfully.

If the remark felt a bit like deju vu, it's because the former vice president used the exact same line the last time he appeared at a CPAC convention.

In February 2008, Cheney appeared before the conservative conference to offer an aggressive defense of the Bush administration.

"A welcome like that is almost enough to make me want to run for office again," he said as crowd members began chanting "four more years."

Speaking this go-around, Cheney's speech was short. He predicted 2010 would be a great year for conservatives and made a joke about being his daughter's arm candy.

"I think Barack Obama is a one term president," he told a roaring crowd. "It's a great time to be a conservative."

Liz Cheney also came out swinging in her conference address.

"There's no polite way to put this, but that kind of incompetence gets people killed," Cheney said, accusing the Obama administration of missing warnings from the intelligence community that Yemeni terrorists were plotting an attack.

"There is no doubt that the daily intelligence briefings that the president receives contained much more information on the threat from Yemen," she said, without a hint of irony at the failures of the Bush-Cheney years, bemoaning "incompetence, misjudgment and presidential neglect."

Comments

[rleb2002]

12:42 PM on 02/21/2010

Republicans are committed , to go back, to the days, or years,
(8 year) of Cheney and Bush, but now they want them as president and vise. By the way thing on congress, that what they are figuring things, Get back thing they way they were, ( The past 8 years , those were their bet year? That's the way they are thinking) at least that the way, commentators and , republican representatives are showing the picture.(Give the pass to big corporations, and push down,, as low as they can! The middle and poor class, on the country!)

[42tom]

05:58 AM on 02/20/2010

It is so sad that this man is such an angry individual....

[tompoe]

12:11 PM on 02/20/2010

Cheney is a war criminal. This is not a sad thingy, 42tom. It is a war criminal that is running loose in our society, and treated as if he was a man. Cheney is a war criminal.

[omalley313]

07:53 PM on 02/19/2010

In case anyone needs a reminder, one historian put it best ...
“No individual president can compare to the second Bush. Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.”

http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html

[Rich Kambak]

05:17 PM on 02/19/2010

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

[Misty2003]

02:34 PM on 02/19/2010

Oh! the old war monger- I hope he gets another heart attack and there are no more by pass---

[LisaLisa1234]

02:31 PM on 02/19/2010

"There's no polite way to put this, but that kind of incompetence gets people killed," [Liz] Cheney said...

...And she missed the irony completely.

The incompetence of her Daddy's administration DID get people killed. Almost 3000, on American soil. Thousands more in an unnecessary war with a country that had nothing to do with those attacks.

The way I feel about Cheney and his daughter makes me think what Auntie Em said to Mrs. Gulch in The Wizard of Oz:

“For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!”

[InnocentBystander]

02:14 PM on 02/19/2010

Hope the Democrats rerun this next year...another fail prediction by the administration of failure.

Failed on 9/11
Failed on Middle East policy
Failed on the economy (deficits don't matter, right Dick?)

A world-class coward, war criminal, and war profiteer...he deserves to headline the clown convention, known as CPAC

[oafishcad]

02:07 PM on 02/19/2010

Cheney is telling Obama how to deal with intelligence information? He and W did such a good job with that. 9-11 anyone?

[lvdragonlady]

01:55 PM on 02/19/2010

IN your dreams dickie poo.

[EF3]

01:45 PM on 02/19/2010

And since the Dark Lord Cheney has a track record of being wrong, that just means Obama will be re-elected in 2012. Thank you, Dicky.

[SoCalNick]

01:27 PM on 02/19/2010

The KKLAN Has NEVER enjoyed this much Press attention.

They have always been around, just as nuts and full of hate

BUT the MSM and 99% of this Nation IGNORED them.

That was when the MSM was more concerned with INTEGRITY and not just AD Dollars.

It seems like the MSM is in a non-stop campaign to give these sickos Millions upon Millions of dollars a day in free promotions and we all need to worry about this.

This new spotlight that falsely implies these people represent the Majority out there and not just the normal amount of ignorant racists that have and will ALWAYS be out there is very dangerous.

I personally am ashamed of what the world sees now. We were HUMILIATED by BUSH and now that we have a Real President who is trying to fix this nation the UGLIEST part of this Nations embarrassing History has been brought to the FRONT once again AND AMPLIFIED.

When will it end you ask?

When the TRUE Majority in this country gets SERIOUS and DOES something about this. Not just Dems and Repubs etc but the People who make up the Vast majority of this nation of EVERY Party , Race and Religion and Sexual Orientation who do not want our Nation to once again have the Global image of the 50's and 60's

That is all

[edwcorey]

12:59 PM on 02/19/2010

With a demonstrable trail of failure--policy and predictions--he's speaking to the right (wing) people--the Troglodyte party.

[claudiam]

12:58 PM on 02/19/2010

Why is the American not complaining that these gops are running a campaign and not taking care of the nation's business? They make me sick, literally, and I find them to stand against what this county is for. They are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats. YOU LOST, to someone has way more credibility and integrity that you will never be able to regain again! This hate monger is absolutely hurtful to our country. claudiatucsonaz

[edsel]

12:49 PM on 02/19/2010

Glad to hear he said that, I was concerned he wasn't going to win.

[Denemator]

12:39 PM on 02/19/2010

Sign the petition.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/cheney_torture/