Reply #6: I think they were more rats deserting a sinking ship.

[Armstead]

Cheney and Ruimmy were (are) Nixonian all the way. Proteges of the dark GOP kingdom of the 70's. ..Actually, they had Nixon's dark qualities without his few redeeming ones.

I tend to think that they and Nixon were all part of the same club. Which also included otehr charactacters we've comne to know and love since then. They may have had their share of infighting, and on a personal level may have helped show Nixon the door when it became inevitable.

But when push came to shove (comes to shove) they all pull together for the same dark political/corporate interests. And they're settling Nixon's old scores and resurrecting the form of government that Nixon was trying to build.