The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Cheney on the Hustings: The Reluctant Candidate:
ALTOONA, Pa., July 4 – By the second rally of his weekend campaign swing, Vice President Dick Cheney seemed to be getting the hang of it, delivering an entire line of his standard stump speech looking at the audience instead of the podium as he usually does.
Then the audience got a little too excited. Their cheers forced him to read the same line twice. The vice president is a man who likes to get on with things.
“You guys want to hear this speech or not?” he asked, not angrily but not quite kidding.
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“I think his style is very effective,” said Steve Schmidt, a campaign spokesman. “He was a tremendous asset in 2000 and he’ll be a tremendous asset in 2004.”
Oh please please please please keep him on the ticket.
Having seen this, it becomes obvious the GOP daren’t recruit McCain to replace BigTime . . .
DNC Video: McCain:
“DNC Video: McCain on Bush”