Cheney Makes His Choice
Today, Vice President Dick Cheney said he will cast his ballot for the McCain-Palin ticket. You can imagine the McCain campaign wondering why the VP couldn’t have a nice relaxing Saturday in Wyoming. Instead, he gave the Obama camp an opening and they jumped on it.
“This year, of course, I’m not on the ballot, so I am here … not to vote for me, but I want to join daughter Liz, who is with me today, join us in casting … our ballots for John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
At a rally in Pueblo, Obama responded to the Cheney endorsement. “I’d like to congratulate Sen. McCain on this endorsement, because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy,” he said. “George Bush may be in an undisclosed location now, but Dick Cheney’s out there on the campaign trail because he’d be delighted to pass the baton to John McCain…He knows that with John McCain, you get a twofer: George Bush’s economic policy and Dick Cheney’s foreign policy. And that is a risk we cannot afford to take.”
On a day when the McCain campaign tried to seize some momentum with the Obama Aunt story, this is a real set back. Any day when Cheney or Bush are connected to McCain is a bad day for him.
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