Random Political Thoughts

Random Thought Number One: Say what you want about Dick Cheney, but I am going to miss the son-of-a-bitch.

I interrupt this message in the interest of full disclosure: So no one jumps to any conclusions about my political leanings, I am a fiscally conservative Libertarian, registered as a Republican. But if you know a little about Libertarianism, you know that we are about individual rights, so there are many things about which I agree with Democrats. For example, I don't care what people do in their bedrooms, as long as they are consenting adults. I don't care whether they are married, or not. I don't care whether they are the same gender, or different genders. And I don't even care whether they are of different genders and are married.

Libertarians are also about smaller government, so there are many things about which I agree with at least some Republicans: lower taxes; less government. After all, when you see daily examples of how corrupt government is, why would you think more of it were the best solution to any problems?

But back to Dick Cheney. I just watched Chris Wallace's interview of him, and I just love his no-nonsense, honest responses.

Wallace: Did you really tell someone in the Senate to bleep himself?

Cheney: Yes. That was Pat Leahy. I thought he merited it at the time, and we've since, I think, patched over that wound and we're civil to one another now.

Most politicians would have pussy-footed around, and said that whatever was said would remain between the two parties involved, or some such nonsense, but Cheney just admitted it. I love it.

Random Thought Number Two: With all of the money in the Kennedy and Onassis families, it never occurred to anyone to get Caroline Kennedy into some braces?? Man, that is some unattractive overbite. Even if she didn't want her daughter to run for political office, orthodontia for Caroline should have occurred to Jackie O.