Never afraid to go against the crowd, or the facts, Dick Cheney found Paul Ryan's performance in Thursday night's vice presidential debate dazzling.
Following the debate, Cheney declared that "there is no question in my mind when I look at Joe Biden and Paul Ryan on the stage there last night, I think Paul Ryan's got what it takes to take over as president. I don't think Joe Biden does."
How did George W. Bush's number-two see what so many mere mortals missed?
Cheney pays serious attention to Ryan.
Indeed, he says: "I worship the ground that Paul Ryan walks on."
And no one should doubt Cheney's sincerity.
The former Republican vice president adores the Republican vice presidential candidate because Ryan is a fresh, young Cheney.
Cheney moved to Washington as soon as he could and became a political careerist, working as a Capitol Hill aide, a think-tank hanger on and then a member of Congress. Ryan followed the same insider trajectory.
Cheney's a hyper-partisan Republican with a history of putting party loyalty above everything else. Ryan's an equally loyal GOP mandarin.
Cheney's a rigid ideologue who has never let reality get in the way of cockamamie neocon theories about where to start the next war. And Ryan's every bit as much a neocon as Cheney.
Americans should reflect on Ryan's performance in Thursday's vice presidential debate with Cheney in mind. When they do, they will shudder.
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