The Cheney Quartet For The Future Of The GOP: Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rob Portman & Mark Sanford

Cheney thinks he sees the future of the GOP

Bobby Jindal seems to have botched-- perhaps irreparably-- his debut on the national political stage. But there are still plenty of Republicans who want to offer the nation another opportunity to go back to the catastrophic right-wing policies of the disastrous Bush-Cheney years-- from moderate Mormon Jon Huntsman to extreme right Know Nothing Sarah Palin to flip-floppin' Stand-For-Nothing Mitt Romney and crybaby retread Newt Gingrich. A British paper is reporting today that Bush's favorite general, David Petraeus, will be making a speech in Iowa next year, supposedly an indication that he wants to make a run for the presidency-- or at least present himself as someone the Grand Obstructionist Party can turn to if the current batch of losers and non-starters still looks like a bad version of the Seven Dwarves headed into 2012.

This morning on CNN, though, a delusional Dick Cheney, perhaps the most disliked and distrusted man in American politics, whose response to a litany of failures of his regime was "stuff happens," made it clear where he thinks the Republicans should be looking. He told host John King that the future of the Republican Party lies with far right extremists and ideologues Mark Sanford, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rob Portman and... Limbaugh, whom he said he "loves."

Sanford is nearing the end of his term as governor of South Carolina and will spend the rest of his political life angling to be vice-president or in someone's cabinet. The Ohio Democratic Party and the DSCC is dealing with Rob Portman's pretensions of inserting himself into the U.S. Senate after his disgraceful role in the Bush Regime's mishandling of the American economy. Eric Cantor's district central Virginia congressional district, the reddest in the state (PVI- R+11) was carefully gerrymandered to skirt Democratic precincts. Obama only scored 46% against McCain there, although he beat McCain in the districts next door represented by Republicans Randy Forbes and Frank Wolf and by Democrat Bobby Scott (76-24%). In short, Cantor is in one of those specially designed districts that is safe from political challenge, at least for now. That leaves Paul Ryan, the most electorally vulnerable of any of the Cheney Quartet.

Obama won the district in November, 51-48% and about a week ago we laid out the case that Ryan can be defeated next year. Blue America has been quiet so far this year. But we've been busy. Paul Ryan will soon learn how busy. Please help us put a stop to one of Dick Cheney's favorite politicians by making a donation to stopping Paul Ryan.