Will Cheney Run?

After being beat up for the last eight years, why would Dick Cheney be interested in running for President? There you go, jumping to the wrong conclusion. I don't mean Dick Cheney, I mean his daughter Liz Cheney. After Dick weighed in on the enhanced interrogation methods debate, Liz came on the scene to defend her father. Lately, she has been interviewed on just about every news program there is, and, at least in my opinion, making a very good showing for herself. I have to admit that I haven't been able to catch more than a couple of minutes at a time, but I am really impressed with what she has to say. Last night, Larry King paired her up with James Carville and it was no contest. Carville would answer every question with the officially sanctioned left-wing talking point reply, and Cheney would counter with an in-your-face direct answer, delivered with a velvet hammer and a smile. She made Carville look like the idiot he is. Seriously, she has everything I would like to see in a candidate. It looks like she has the same conservative views as her father, but she is able to present them in a non-confrontational manner. It is obvious that she is very intelligent, and is quite comfortable in front of a camera and microphone. I think she matches Obama's ability to connect with the people she is trying to reach, and she doesn't seem to need a teleprompter. Anyway, I think she deserves watching. I don't know if Liz is the daughter who is gay, but if so, that would cost her some votes. I could overlook it.
Speaking of getting elected, there is a big election taking place in Iran tomorrow. Moderate candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi seems to be in a good position to oust Ahmadinejad from the presidency. If he wins, I think it would be remarkable in one very important sense. His main backers seem to be young people, some of whom drive around town at night shouting, with radios blaring and waving banners. Unknown to me before now, the young people are really into Facebook on the internet, and Mousavi is making good use of this connection. After his victory, he would just about have to cater to this contingent. After all, there are 70,000,000 young people under the age of thirty in Iran. Ahmadinejad, with his strict interpretations of the Koranic law, probably wouldn't appeal to these young voters. Of course, the clerics, who wield a lot of power, would still have a lot to say about how open the government would be allowed to be. Then, too, they are all muslims, which would take rationality out of the picture. And who's to say if the election will be fair? Muslims........