Evil Genius.
Ok, just because he is against everything I stand for, and he is evil to his core, at lease he is not Sarah Palin.
Ol' Dick knows government, he may be wrong on how he has implemented his war on terra, hid everything he does from the light of day (like a vampire), and tried to subvert every other branch of government as best he could (and probably has pictures so he wouldn't get impeached), at least he knows what the Vice President is supposed to do.
Just because "go f*@& yourself" has the personality of a sea sick alligator, at least you know what you are up against. With a pitbull in lipstick, you never can figure out what is going to happen.
He was able to pull the puppet strings of gwb effectively, and probably did everything that the president was supposed to do for these past eight years. Even if he was not really the president, he ran a shadow government from his undisclosed location so effectively and so ruthlessly, he might as well have been president.
RB (as he likes to be called) ran several large administrative functions from Ford's chief of staff to Halliburton. He was a representative from Wyoming, he was even house minority whip. Let's admit it, the guy knew how government worked, and he worked it to his advantage.
If Sarah Palin were VP we know we will have more nonsense science, more anti gay, more anti choice, more anti everything else. I don't think she has anywhere near the intelligence needed to actually run the government, or run a large administrative function. She is just another "heck of a job, hockey mom."
Given her belief that there is "real" America, and the rest are America haters, how could she even begin to work with people "on the other side?"
Let's face it, at least heart attack, knew how to manipulate government. Hockey mom is just manipulative.
Oh, and what I want for VP, is someone is not not an average joe. I want someone who knows what is going on in the world, and how the federal government works. I want an excellent Joe (Biden).
I also want hope, and goodness, and positive thoughts and feelings.