Dick Cheney in '08! He's Grim, Pasty, and Ready!



Matt Yglesias wonders why people think Cheney is too old to run for President when they didn't think the same about Ronald Reagan. (Actually, I do remember people talking about Reagan's age in the '80s, talk which got louder when he flubbed the first debate with Walter Mondale.) Well, if we buy into the saying "You're as old as you feel", Dick Cheney must be about Yoda's age by now. He's always had that pallor, as if his nature will not permit him to sit out in daylight. His countenance suggests Mr. Burns crossed with Ebeneezer Scrooge crossed with severe colonic spasms (with a demeanor to match). He's the kind of guy who, when he saw that picture of Nixon stalking the beach in his suit and wing tips, wondered how he could copy that look.

Reagan always managed to evoke Grandpa, a slightly bewildered buy largely amiable soul who'd pull quarters from behind your ears. (He wasn't really like that, by most reliable accounts, but that's how he appeared to white people who didn't know him.) Cheney brings to mind that miserable son of a bitch at every Rotary meeting who grabs the boy of the month by his arm and orders him to get a haircut. He's the old bastard that kids are afraid of because he'll sick his dog on them if they try to retrieve their frisbees from his lawn. When people hear how old he really is, they think, my God, what must that man have done to himself? My father appears younger than Dick Cheney, and he'll be 85 next month.

This:



is an old, old man.

Posted: Sat - January 29, 2005 at 03:37 PM        

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