Cheney’s Chance
New York Sun Editorial
April 4, 2007
For all the talk about potential candidates who haven’t entered the 2008 presidential race – from Mayor Bloomberg to Vice President Gore to Senator Thompson and Speaker Gingrich – the one that who would bring the most to the race is Vice President Cheney. In previous recent campaigns, when there was an outgoing president who had won a second term, there has been a vice president around on the campaign trail to defend the record of the administration. George H.W. Bush promised to be kinder and gentler than Reagan, but he was still essentially defending the Reagan record. Vice President Gore didn’t campaign much with President Clinton in 2000, but he was running in part on the record of the Clinton-Gore administration.