At first I thought this item read, "Dick Cheney replaced on the Republican ticket with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". I guess I've got sugar-plums dancing in my head.

Closet gay like his parent. He is useless as a VP. He will cause us so much hatred from other countries by the lies that he produced and how he slams other when they disagree.

I would really enjoy a Bush-Giuliani ticket but as others have stated earlier, it's a one in a million chance of happening. Not only because it's so late in the campaign (could you imagine making brand new campaign signs!), but also because Cheney is a strong and powerful assest to the Bush adminstration.

In a way this is a good idea. But dick was loyal to bush for 4 years. But the upside is if bush picks Rudy it would almost be a given that bush would get more votes especially thoise key votes from New York.

I don't see it happening, Bush considers Cheney to valuable to be replaced anytime soon.

I'm rating this on the likeliness of it happening. Cheney, who is one of the most unpopular people in the Bush Administration, could be a burden for Bush in the campaign. Giuliani would be more popular, and the Bush Campaign could call it a all 9/11 ticket. Fortunately, it does not look like Cheney will be dumped. He is one of the people that offers the ignorant president advice. Bush has said he supports Cheney. Of course, Cheney could get himself off the ticket and claim it was because of his health.

That would actually give me hope that things really aren't so bad. It won't happen, though: Cheney is too important to the President. He guides him more than you even know.

This would actually come as a surprise to me. Giuliani would make Bush far more electable in my view, but he isn't going to dump Cheney anytime soon. The word around some party circles is that the Vice President is a weight around Bush. Cheney's energy commission recommending more subsidies to the industry, allegations of corporate cronyism, his hawkish views, and his lack of charisma are the reasons cited by some people to get rid of him. Polls indicate that the President remains popular but Cheney represents everything bad that people associate with the Administration, namely it's secretiveness and its preference towards corporatist policies. Bush won't do it because he relies too much on him for organizing his agenda, he makes and decides on policy as opposed to the President. Giuliani is a talented politician, but he's far too independently minded for Bush to take, who prefers loyalty above anything else, another reason why Cheney isn't going anywhere. If a scandal comes out involving the energy commission or his activities during the onset of the Iraq conflict, then expect him to resign for health reasons. If Bush lets Cheney go, that would be a sign of political weakness, an admission that his policies concerning the war on Iraq aren't working, being that the Vice President is the most prominent hawk in the Administration, it isn't going to happen.