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...Dick Cheney tries to keep a low profile as Vice President, quietly advising President Bush and focusing on national security matters as far away from the spotlight as possible. That may be wise, since Cheney is not a popular man among the broader American public; his approval ratings (37% in a recent CNN poll) are lower than even the President's. But in election season the Vice President remains a big draw for conservative audiences. In this midterm election cycle, he has held 114 campaign events across the country and raised more than $40 million for the G.O.P. cause...
...Cheney: Well, it is different when you're doing it -- your own name is on the ballot. And of course, I did that, what, I guess six times when I ran in Wyoming, and then twice as Vice President. And I will say that's more fun. I've still got a lot invested in what I'm doing now. But I've done a lot of this over the years. Obviously, when I was in Congress, part of the leadership, I campaigned for colleagues all the time...
...There's the rap on me, occasionally, Cheney doesn't have any fun out on the campaign trail. It's not true. I do enjoy it. And we have oftentimes over the years turned it into a family enterprise. When I ran for Congress the first time was in an RV that my dad drove. Mom cooked. Lynne and I and the girls campaigned...
...wake of the assassination, as suspicions fall on a Syrian man, now President Cheney suspends most civil liberties and itches to invade Syria. To leftists, a government that grounds its policies in paranoia may not seem like fantasy. For others, there's fascination in the whodunit that Range weaves with his fictional talking heads from the Bush White House, the Chicago cops and the FBI. But the killer's ID takes a backseat to the infernal cleverness of the enterprise. D.O.A.P. has a surface plausibility as seductive as a good political campaign...
...Cheney is also reprising some of his more apocalyptic rhetoric from the last campaign, including his warning that there is no guarantee that the nation will avoid "another 9/11." But he says it's "no accident" that hasn't happened yet, and points to administration-backed anti-terrorism tools that have drawn criticism from Democrats who argue that Bush has overreached. He wraps up by asserting it is "no surprise that such a party would turn its back on a man like Senator Joe Lieberman," the Connecticut Democrat (and Cheney counterpart on Al Gore's ticket in 2000) who lost...