I'm no Dick Cheany fan and it could be (and has been) faceitously suggsted this was Dick Cheney being named Republican presidental candidate by Bush as Cheney along with some others have aslo run the country for the past eight years. One could argue had Cheney decided to run for president in 2008 he would have had a chance at being the first four term president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. But although you could unfacetiously say that Gore won the election, it wasn't a disaterous choice that Bush made unlike the one his pops made in 88.