OK, this is one of those things that conservatives go back and forth on. "DICK CHENEY IS A GOD!" and "DICK CHENEY RUINED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!" are common extremes within the party, and I must say I'm a bit closer to the first extreme.

I certainly don't think of him as a God, per say, but I absolutely love the mans character (I mean come on, telling people to go F themselves is the American way), and I would do exactly what Cheney is doing right now: defend my policies. He has nothing to lose, after all. He's retired from politics after a long and very successful career, and although I'm sure certain parts of the Republican party would like him to sit down and shut up, the man has the gonads the size of grape fruit and didn't back down during the Bush administration and won't back down now. And his eldest daughter seems to be following in his footsteps.

Liz Cheney has started a  group aimed at rallying opposition to some of Obama's foreign policy, called Keep America Safe. I've been on the record SEVERAL times saying that I know less about foreign policy than, say, Mr. Tracy, but depending on what Liz is rallying opposition against (if shes anything like her father) then I'm on board!

"Keep America Safe will focus on issues like troop levels, missile defense, detainees, and interrogation, according to Liz Cheney, who is heading the group along with Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and Debra Burlingame, the hawkish sister of an American Airlines pilot killed in the September 11 attacks." (Politico)

I'm excited because both Kristol (one of the leading neocons) and a Cheney started this group, and while I don't ascribe to everything in the neoconservative ideology I feel that this particular sect of the Republican party has been misinterpreted and mismanaged (mostly because of key Bush mistakes with Iraq) and deserves a chance to unsoil their brand. 

This will be an interesting group to keep an eye on, and I look forward to another pissed off Cheney tearing people new ones.

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Kevin Tracy
I'm wondering if this isn't a prelude to a US Senate campaign in Wyoming or similar state with strong Cheney connections. It will be interesting to see where the money goes in all of this.
There are elements of her foreign policy that I truly wish had died after Bush left office, but there is always room for hawks in the debate and this might be desperately needed as the rest of the Republican Party flees from the foreign policy debate.