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Title: Dick Cheney: Mitt Romney The 'Only' Man For Foreign Policy (Well That Settles It For Me)
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Published: Jul 13, 2012
Author: KASIE HUNT 07/1
Post Date: 2012-07-13 09:35:31 by tom007
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Dick Cheney: Mitt Romney The 'Only' Man For Foreign Policy By KASIE HUNT 07/13/12 01:04 AM ET AP Share on Google+ 15 38 1 86 Get Politics Alerts: Sign Up React: Important Funny Typical Scary Outrageous Amazing Innovative Finally Follow: Elections 2012, Elections 2012, Dick Cheney, Elections 2012, Video, Dick Cheney Mitt Romney, Cheney, Cheney Mitt Romney, Cheney Romney, Dick Cheney Romney, Dick Cheney Romney Fundraiser, Election 2012, Romney 2012, Romney Cheney, Politics News Dick Cheney Mitt Romney WILSON, Wyo. -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney told Republican fundraisers Thursday night that Mitt Romney is the "only" man who can make the right decisions in unexpected foreign policy crises. The presumptive 2012 Republican presidential nominee called Cheney a "great American leader" – and didn't mention former President George W. Bush in a 20-minute speech to a country club reception. Cheney said serving under four presidents taught him that a surprising international crisis is inevitable. "When I think about the kind of individual I want in the Oval Office in that moment of crisis, who has to make those key decisions, some of them life-and-death decisions, some of them decisions as commander-in-chief, who has the responsibility for sending some of our young men and women into harm's way, that man is Mitt Romney," Cheney said to applause. It was a strong endorsement from a man who has come to represent the neoconservative foreign policy wing of the Republican Party. Until Thursday, Romney had avoided appearing with Cheney or with Bush. While Romney avoided mentioning the former president in remarks that were open to the press, he invoked Bush in a question-and-answer session with donors at a private dinner at Cheney's home. In remarks overheard by reporters standing outside the clubhouse, Romney contrasted what he called "President George W. Bush's freedom agenda" with President Barack Obama. Cheney, who generally avoids retail politicking, is still a controversial figure because of his hawkish foreign policy stances and support for enhanced interrogation techniques – like waterboarding – that many consider torture. Obama banned those techniques after he took office. Donors gathered Thursday night under a tent next to the driving range at Teton Pines Country Club, a golfing community where Cheney has a home. After Cheney introduced him, Romney praised the former vice president as "a great American leader." Romney criticized Obama's domestic policies on health care and spending. "But the foreign policy mistakes, I believe, may be even longer lasting in their negative impact on the country," he said, but he did not specify those policies. In the past Romney has attacked Obama's policies on Iran, China and Israel, although he has praised the president for authorizing the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. Romney raised more than $4 million with Cheney, long a strong fundraiser in part because of his popularity among the conservative Republican base. The Cheney-sponsored events in this resort area near Yellowstone National Park represent a welcome endorsement for Romney, who is eager to win over more of the party's base. Cheney was hosting Romney at a private dinner at his Wyoming home after he posed for photos with Romney and the fundraisers who had flown from all over the country for the event. They were drawn either by Cheney or by the dramatic beauty of the mountains in this resort valley. New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, a national campaign finance co-chair, was in attendance, as were bundlers from Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and New York, among other places. Oklahoma City oil magnate Harold Hamm, frequently mentioned in Romney's standard campaign speech as an inspiring rags-to-riches example of American entrepreneurship, also attended. Hamm drove a truck to put himself through college before striking it rich in North Dakota. "Harold's doing just fine, by the way. How you doing, Harold?" Romney called out, as the crowd laughed. "Forbes publishes his net worth on a regular basis." Hamm is No. 78 on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires, worth $11 billion, according to the magazine. Attendance at the dinner with Cheney cost $30,000, though many had already contributed that much before Thursday night's event. Cheney's red-doored home is at the end of a cul-de-sac and overlooks the golf course and the Grand Teton mountain range. The Secret Service had set up metal detectors on the back lawn in preparation for the dinner, and a tent for the dinner was erected near the 18th hole of the golf course close to the clubhouse. Romney doesn't have a close personal relationship with the former vice president. While he speaks regularly with former President George H.W. Bush, Romney seldom refers by name to the most recent Bush to occupy the White House. On occasion he goes out of his way not to say Bush's name out loud and simply calls him "the predecessor" to Obama. Romney has embraced Cheney in the past. Last year, he told an Arizona town hall that Cheney's "wisdom and judgment" would provide a model for choosing his own vice president. Many of Romney's policy advisers were officials in the Bush White House. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently endorsed the former Massachusetts governor. On Thursday, Romney aides refused to comment on reports that Rice is a top consideration for vice president. Earlier this month, Romney's wife, Ann, said her husband was considering choosing a woman as a running mate. Romney's visit with the GOP sage came as he was in the final stages of picking his No. 2. Cheney is familiar with the process: He was charged with leading Bush's vice presidential search in 2000 and ended up vice president himself. Romney has tasked longtime aide Beth Myers with leading his own vice presidential search. Cheney has long struggled with cardiovascular disease, suffering a heart attack in 2010, his fifth since the age of 37. Now 71, he received a heart transplant earlier this year at a more advanced age than most patients. Cheney's daughter Liz also attended Thursday's fundraiser. She recently bought a house in Wyoming, sparking questions about whether she plans to run for office. Her father was elected to six terms as a House member from the state.
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Mitt is good at foreign policy cause that's where all his money is.
Makes me want to run right out and register to cast my patriotic vote.
Cheney left office with an approval rating of 13% .... even lower than the Kardashians', even lower than the suggestion that the USA should turn Communist! But, hey, the endorsement of the man who lied us into a fraudulent war in Iraq, who blew the cover of a CIA officer responsible for loose nukes, who shot a man in the face and used his SS men to keep the police from questioning him, certainly decides for me how I will vote. There's a very definite reason why no journalists or broadcasters were allowed at this Romney-Cheney lovefest.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's Handmaiden
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's Handmaiden
The experiment is over, just waiting for the STHTF and 'Merica to become history.
Asshat moved directly to his Kill! lists. (What a shit article) To succeed in life, you need three things; a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone ~ Reba McEntire
Yes, yes. We know all that stuff. The question is:"Who will run the New World War?" Is it to be a bunch of leftist bums from Chicago or a battle-tested gang of pirates who know where the important skeletons lie buried? Now that is "the" best inquiry made so far today ! "In an unjust society, the only place for a just man is prison." Thoreau
Neither of those groups are on our side - the side of the American people who care about the Republic. They are only interested in how much money and power they can extract from the crisis/false-flag op being referred to by Cheney.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
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Obama banned those techniques after he took office.
#8. To: Shoonra (#3)
Cheney left office with an approval rating of 13%
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Is it to be a bunch of leftist bums from Chicago or a battle-tested gang of pirates who know where the important skeletons lie buried?
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Is it to be a bunch of leftist bums from Chicago or a battle-tested gang of pirates who know where the important skeletons lie buried?
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