I wish Cheney ran in 2008

The Times carried a fascinating op-ed piece today. Ross Douthat posits that a Cheney bid would have ended in total defeat, demonstrating that the country has had enough of the right-wing chicken-hawks we endured the last 8 years. In other words, Cheney and his ilk would have gotten smoked last November. As he emerges from his cave to cast doubt on the Obama administration, he can safely do so as one who was never truly tested in an electoral campaign. He can pretend that his way (torture, lies, outing a CIA operative in an act of pure treason) was endorsed by the American public. But as the republicans and the conservative media continue to embrace him, it is clear that he is the titular head of the party. This bodes well for the Democratic Party in the mid-terms.