Cheney - Palin 2012

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1. Why not just...

combine them.

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2. Save on jet fuel, staff, and other things -

She may look like this by then;)

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7. I also did this one last year:

[Ohio Joe]

23. Well... thats just disturbing

Damn... I'm glad I didn't see this last night, would have given me nightmares. :scared:

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31. You are the superior craftsman!

That's great! The Bush-McCain face is perfect and it's got those Richard "Dick" Hickock eyes.

[BuyingThyme]

4. Looks kinda like Harry Potter.

[H2O Man]

20. Beauty!

Love it!

[saltpoint]

3. Vicious and Vacuous 2012.

[Me.]

5. Great Minds?

Thought of this earlier this evening. Personally I would love to see it on so many different levels.

[BlooInBloo]

6. It's funny watching republicans actively choosing the worst people possible....

They happily try to destroy the country - and even the world - just to piss us off. Strange people.

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13. Every time I think they won't go any lower

they come through. Pretty soon they'll have candidates who need handlers like "Goat Boy" on SNL.

[skier_]

30. When really it would make so much

more sense for them to find sensible people that can bridge the gap between the parties.

[ihavenobias]

8. Great, now how am I going to fall asleep tonight?!

;)

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14. In a word

Ambien;)

[Kazak]

9. Palin/Cheney?

Let's not pussyfoot.

[Profprileasn]

25. More likely

with a heart problem, Cheney would never be President but VP possibly.

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29. Dick's on top

That's not a sexist comment. I'm employing a class hierarchy;)

[lpbk2713]

10. Go ahead Dick. Take her hunting.

She likes to hunt. From helicopters preferably. Take your best scatter gun
along and have a few beers before the hunting trip just to loosen up a little.

[DemoTex]

12. Bwaa haa haa haa! Indeed!

[Peace Patriot]

11. The terrifying thing is that it can be EASILY done!

The last time I looked, our entire voting system was run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by a handful of rightwing Puke corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls. As far as I know, this has not changed. Half the voting systems in the country have no audit at all (no automatic handcount as a check on machine fraud), either because they have no paper trail at all or they have no requirement to count any percentage of the paper ballots. The other half of the states may have a paper ballot, but they do a meager and inadequate 1% audit. Experts whom I respect say that 10% is the minimum audit needed to detect fraud.

A little corpo/fascist "news" narrative, and the thing is done. And we have no recourse against it. Zero. Zip. None.

By contrast, Venezuela uses electronic voting, but it is an OPEN SOURCE code system--anyone may review the code by which the votes are tabulating--and they handcount a whopping 55% of the votes as a check on machine fraud. That's why they have universal free medical care, universal free college education, use of the country's oil resource to benefit the poor, and had a sizzling near 10% economic growth rate over the last five years (2003-2008), with the most growth in the private sector (not including oil), and meanwhile the Chavez government put aside $40 billion in international cash reserves for a 'rainy day'--such as the Bushwhacks' Financial 9/11 last September. Venezuela landed on its feet, while our economy slid into Great Depression II.*

How did our system of counting votes become almost totally non-transparent, and placed in the control of private corporations, some of whose far rightwing connections would make your hair stand on end? The Anthrax Congress did it by appropriating $3.9 billion dollars to fast-track these diabolical voting machines all over the country during the 2002 to 2004 period, with no controls whatsoever on their use. There was a lot of corruption of election officials and state legislators. Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia--the big three--heavily lobbied for no audit/recount controls and got their way most of the time, as well as lobbying for purchasing of these highly expensive systems which need constant upgrades and maintenance. Our Democratic leaders were quiet as mouses while this occurred.

How do we fix it? The best bet is at the state/local level, where control over voting systems still resides, and where ordinary people still have some potential influence. Your county voting registrar, for instance, may live down the street from you. Congress ain't going to fix it. They did it to us--our own party included. They are not going to undo it. And they live far away, in rich neighborhoods in fancy houses that most of us can't get near, and inside the cauldron of corruption we call our nation's capitol. Have they fixed it? No. Is there any prospect at all that our 'Democratic' Congress will do so? None. You can ask yourselves why. I won't go into what I think about why. I'm just saying, this IS the situation.

There are a lot of things wrong with our election system. But this is the ultimate bar to reform, as well as a just about guaranteed weapon for installing future dictators. There are only two reasons for near complete non-transparency in vote counting: preventing reform and electing really bad people. These are what it was for. These are what it does.

Until we change this, Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin could easily--EASILY!--be the next President and Vice President of the U.S.

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*Venezuela has a bit of an inflation problem, but the bolivars in circulation are solidly backed and a careful devaluation, combined with government stimulus, is expected to steady the inflation problem. Don't know about you, but I'd rather have a bit of inflation right now than a dead economy and Great Depression II. Inflation helps the "little guy"--if it doesn't go too far. Depression does not. That's why financial fascists like Rotters, the New York Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and others are always railing against inflation and issuing dire warnings about it. The Chavez government has defied all dire predictions, and is doing just fine. It enjoys a continued approval rating in the 60% range.

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35. 55% hand count to check

Heck that approaches inventory standards. It's clear that they actually care who wins. That's how
Chavez responds to his doubters. He makes it more transparent. Here we just get blown off as
nut cases for questioning an obviously absurd system with no checks and no transparency.

We've been reduced to lagging behind the nations that we despise.

It's like the saying goes, 'They wouldn't let us vote if it did any good' or something like that.

And they wouldn't.

[DCKit]

15. All good, until the first debate with OUR President.

Cheney's good at the sound-bites, but he can't stand up to any kind of scrutiny.

But it would be fun to watch.

Biden vs. Palin? At this point he'd be justified in asking "WTF are you doing here?"

[Contrary1]

16. She may not be back from Hong Kong by then.

You know, that big city in the country of Asia.

[Cleita]

17. Palin won't do it. She's through with being second banana on the

presidential ticket. Cheney will be dead by then.

[DFW]

18. We should be so lucky

They'll nominate two new faces that we have nothing on, so that they can point to Obama's "failures," while
we can't point to anything, since they'll be as predictable (and as interesting) as day-old mashed potatoes.

[formercia]

19. EEK!!

Not this early, please.

The 'Dream Team.' :rofl:

[LeftishBrit]

22. The Dream Team - if you enjoy nightmares.

[LeftishBrit]

21. Argh. Sounds like the plot of a horror film.

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24. With Beck as WH communications "director"

Michelle Bachmann as SOS

Any other possibilities for the total clusterF... administration?

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33. LOL either I suppose might work, but the first would rhyme better.

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34. He certainly has better moves;)

[VOX]

26. The Troll and The Doll = Troll Doll '12...

For those who remember troll dolls. :bounce:

[formercia]

27. I think of Palin dressed in leather with a riding crop

and Cheney hog-tied on all fours. Who needs late-night TV?

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28. I really like the way you think!