Sneek Peek: An Early Prediction for 2007. Cheney out, McCain in.

December 4, 2006 by mugsy.

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You’ve probably noticed by now that I don’t like to cover “todays big news” here. There are SO many places you can read all the latest stories, repeating them here would just be redundant. So instead, I prefer to come up with something different.

I plan on doing an *Official* “predictions” entry right after Christmas, but I wanted to throw an early one out there now while it’s fresh in my head:

Most of you know that Cheney & Rumsfeld have ties all the way back to the Nixon Administration. Cheney brought Rummy into Nixon’s “Office of Economic Opportunity“, and it was under President Gerald Ford that Cheney and Rummy staged a mini-coup, pushing Ford to fire Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, tell Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to look for another job and to remove Henry Kissinger from his post as national security adviser. Rumsfeld was then named secretary of defense (youngest ever), and Cheney became chief of staff to the president (also youngest ever).

It was Cheney that “recommended himself” for the position of Vice President after Gov. George W. Bush gave him the job of screening postential VP’s back in 2000. And it was Cheney that recommended his pal Rumsfeld for the position of Secretary of Defense in the GWB Administration (giving Rummy the distinction of being both the *youngest* and the *oldest* SecDef’s in history).

The day after the Democratic election sweep that changed control of both Houses of Congress, President Bush announced Rummy’s departure. Sources inside the White House have claimed that Cheney has been more than “out of sorts” with the dismissal of his longtime friend. And the glaringly bad advice given by Rummy that was the impetus for his dismissal goes for Cheney in spades. If Bush could fire Cheney (a bit like a puppet firing the guy with the hand up his back), he might, but since Cheney was *elected*, he can not be fired. Bush could only ask for his resignation, and we know he would never do that because that would be tantamount to an admission of failure, and Bush is physically incapable of that. The dismissal of Rumsfeld alone is almost inconceivable.

Cheney said from Day One that he would never seek the Presidency himself, that after his second term as VP, he would resign. As a result, the 2008 Presidential campaign may be the most open field in nearly 100 years. With no natural successor.

My first prediction is that sometime in 2007, Cheney will retire, citing “health problems” or some other such nonsense (he took office with at least three heart attacks under his belt to begin with), and the White House’s choice to be the next President will be made VP. This person will be John McCain.

Sen McCain sold out his friend, fellow Vietnam Vet John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential race to throw all of his support behind the man that savaged his character and questioned his loyalty to the country while a P.O.W. in Vietnam. Why would he do this? In my opinion, it is because he made a deal with the Devil, with Bush promising to endorse McCain and put the powerful Bush Election Machine at McCain’s disposal for the 2008 campain in exchange for his endorsement in 2004.

It is almost automatic now that the sitting VP at the end of a President’s second term becomes the Party’s nominee in the next election. But many of the Fundamentalist Christians and Neo-Conservative extremists that make up President Bush’s base don’t like the “pro-choice”, “government reform” John McCain, and are more closely eying potential candidates like Rudy Gulliani (also pro-choice, AND pro-gay rights as well… not to mention moved his mistress into the Mayor’s mansion with him, his wife and his children, at the end of his term in 2001), and Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (again, also “pro-gay rights”, but “pro life” and a devote Mormon), with McCain bringing up the rear. But appointing him VP in 2007 and serving out two years in that position would all but lock up the 2008 nomination for him.

So don’t be surprised if sometime very early in 2007, Dick Cheney resigns for “health reasons” and John McCain is tapped to become Vice President. To ensure McCain serves as close to two full years as possible, expect this move as early as January or February.

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