{"id":533,"date":"2004-01-27T15:36:48","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/cheney_to_be_dumped\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:36:48","slug":"cheney_to_be_dumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/cheney_to_be_dumped\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney to Be Dumped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rumors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/Default.aspx?id=4065772&#038;p1=0\">continue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A well-placed source says that the president will &#8220;most likely&#8221; drop Dick Cheney from his re-election ticket and his first choice for a replacement is former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.<br \/>\n&#8220;The issue of Cheney&#8217;s health will probably be given as the reason,&#8221; says the insider. &#8220;There\ufffds a short list of possible replacements, and Rudy is at the top of the list.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe source adds that the selection of the former New York mayor may be overridden by Bush advisors from the far right. &#8220;Giuliani has been pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and is pretty liberal on some other social issues, but the thinking is that he might broaden Bush\ufffds appeal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Health would be a convenient excuse.  Interestingly, Cheney <i>hasn&#8217;t<\/i> had another heart attack since assuming office, so one could argue his health must have actually improved.<br \/>\nAssuming, as one must, that Bush&#8217;s next move is driven by political calculations, the Cheney replacement story is credible.  With a term under his belt, Bush can claim he doesn&#8217;t need a seasoned running mate as he did in 2000.  Cheney doesn&#8217;t bring any electoral help to the ticket; to the contrary, his Halliburton\/Iraq\/energy bill record is becoming an increasing liability.  I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see him dumped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/cheney_to_be_dumped\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Cheney to Be Dumped?\"><p>The rumors continue: A well-placed source says that the president will &#8220;most likely&#8221; drop Dick Cheney from his re-election ticket and his first choice for a replacement is former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. &#8220;The issue of Cheney&#8217;s health will probably be given as the reason,&#8221; says the insider. &#8220;There\ufffds a short list of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}