Dick Cheney’s Popularity Soars to New Highs

People find many similiarities between Jack Nicholson's portrayal of an officer and Dick Cheney

With his recent media blitz, Dick Cheney’s favorability ratings have soared over 30% and are approaching where the Republican administration’s were at the end of 2008.   Reasons for 1/3 of America now embracing Cheney range from his charming daughter to people who just wished that he was still running the country.  Cheney now finds himself nearly 20 percentage points ahead of Fidel Castro and trailing Obama by less than 40%.   This is good news for Cheney who had previously been unable to break half of Obama’s approval rating. In fact he now tops Lou Dobbs among Mexican immigrants by a 3 to 2 margin at 3% to 2%.

Even MSNBC liberals are seeing this.   Joe Scarborough recently said the Dick Cheney’s speech this week was just like the speech that Jack Nicholson gave as Colonel Jessup in a Few Good Men.  In that movie, Tom Cruise is grilling him on the stand about some alleged wrongdoing under his command.   He gives a now famous speech, basically telling Cruise “you can’t handle the truth”  and is acquitted by an awestruck jury.  Likewise, the jury of political opinion, I believe, will acquit Cheney.

Now some people will say, “so what?”  Joe Scarborough is no liberal.   He was a Republican Congressman.   However,  simply by hosting his show on MSNBC shows his liberal bias.  If he was conservative he’d never appear on a biased station like that.   Unlike Fox which provides Fair and Balanced coverage by taking pains to give  the Neo Con, Libertarian, and Traditional Conservative views on the issues of the day, MSNBC makes no claim to such objectivity.

Where is left for Cheney to go?  Well I have a list of milestones so we can chart his progress:

1. Percent of Americans who don’t believe in evolution (51%)
2. Young Americans between 11-17 who were convinced by Clinton’s scandal with Lewinsky that it was OK to lie. (40%)
3. Percent of Saudis who view the United States favorably (40%)
4. People who believe we totally need to rebuild our health care system (38%)
5. Catholics who attend mass weekly who were in favor of giving Obama an honorary degree (37%)

Voters Pick Palin to Head National Day Care

I am not a big fan of US News and World Report.  It usually has too many long articles and not enough simple charts and pictures like USA Today does.  This week though US News has an amazing poll on their website that asks, “Who Would Run the Best Daycare Center?”  The choices are Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi.  America has spoken and with 49% of the vote Sarah Palin is winning the contest.

This is great news for us Republicans, especially considering that Sarah would be the most likely to ask you why you aren’t staying home with your own kids when you dropped them off with her in the morning.  This is also a testament to how well the Palin children have turned out compared to screw ups like Chelsea Clinton and the Obama brats.

I think we need an equally relevant questions for the Washington men and I think I have one.  A lumberjack isn’t trusted with children, but he is trusted with very powerful equipment.  If you had to deforest Yelowstone and you could only have one lumberjack, who would you choose?

McCain Heading to Victory

An AP Poll that came out yesterday shows that McCain has rapidly made up Obama’s once seemingly insurmountable lead and now stands on the precipice of a victory November 4th.  As reporters were simply announcing that McCain had narrowed the gap to a slim 1% Obama lead, I looked beyond the polls and found that things are looking even better for McCain in 12 days.

The great news for John McCain is an amazing surge of evangelical Christians in this country.  In the AP poll 45% of respondents and 44% of likely voters identified themselves as evangelical Christians.  In the 2004 election, where the Christian right is largely credited for their superior grass roots effort to win the White House for Bush, evangelicals made up 23% of the total vote.  In 2000, that total was at 14% in exit polls.  This near doubling of the number of evangelicals in this country is amazing news for the McCain campaign who is clearly outpolling Obama with this group.

Now that we have this sudden doubling of the Christian right in this country, expect a large Republican victory in the congressional elections too.  This huge growth proves the power of committed monogomous married life to create new Republicans.