Cheney Accuses the Democrats of Living in Past
The fall election will present a choice between hope and negativism, Vice President Dick Cheney told a crowd of more than 1,000 Republican faithful at a Minneapolis rally Saturday morning.
“What we’re hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past,” Cheney, in shirt sleeves, said in his 25-minute speech at the Minneapolis Convention Center. “And we’re not going back.”
The speakers -- who included Cheney’s wife, Lynne, Sen. Norm Coleman and Gov. Tim Pawlenty -- contrasted Cheney’s businesslike style with that of Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.
Pawlenty said the choice was about “steak versus sizzle” and Coleman compared Bush’s allegiance to Cheney, who some have called a drag on the ticket, with Abraham Lincoln’s faith in Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
“He was rough at times. He didn’t look so hot in his uniform. He sometimes used a cuss word,” Coleman said of Grant. But he said Lincoln countered critics with, “He fights.”
After the Saturday event, Cheney planned to head to Casper, Wyo., to attend his and Lynne Cheney’s 45th high school reunion.
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