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The more he was hated by the left, the more he was loved by the right.
Born in Lincoln, NE, his family moved to Wyoming. He represented a part of the country that is often underrepresented on the national stage.
He was the Neocon of Neocons, believing that the best way to protect America was to fight our enemies abroad so we wouldn't have to fight them here. The left presented him as Darth Vader, which just made Vader more lovable to many of us.
He served under Gerald Ford as White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush, and Vice President under George W. Bush.
His opposition to Trump lost him many fans on the right, and some hypocritical love from the left. But I believe he was always trying to do what was best for America.
Prayers for his family. Kind words should be said now, or none at all. We have had enough examples of a different kind of behavior.
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Rest in peace. For a man who started having heart attacks at around 37, he had a great run. That was one place modern medicine seems to shine.
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"Except for the occasional heart attack, I've never felt better" he once said.
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He always seemed like the anti-politician to me in that he never really seemed to pander or care what the public thought about him. I grew to loathe many of his policies, but I always liked him personally for that reason.
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In a Washington of mumbling fools reciting uninspired talking points, Dick and Newt showed up the lackluster media and feared no one. I'm in the category that opposed the war in Iraq until we were committed by the president, supported the war while criticizing the lack of societal commitment to it and the muddled conduct of the war on the ground, and in the end counted the war as a mistake. The war's failure was a refutation of the Globalist myth that prosperity was the key to kumbaya. I had friends in the Green Zone, which became a symbol of the limited commitment with the regular penetration by rocket propelled grenades and the rest. The cheering liberated crowds and their deep gratitude were phantasmal. The WMD were not what they were claimed to be. The "republic" created was cynical and corrupt and became an Iranian puppet as soon as the US left a power vacuum. W resisted Blair, who wanted to end the endless writhing of occupied Iraq by standing up a strong man to replace Hussein. W's idealism went unrewarded in the end, Islam was not just some lifestyle choice put on like the Christianity of the country club WASPs, it was and is the religion of submission (often mistranslated as "peace").
Where Cheney stood on the continuum between idealistic warrior for a higher good and cynical war profiteer is now a matter between him and the Creator, may He be merciful.
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Dick Cheney was the anti-Clinton. He wasn't going to pretend support for something on Monday, then oppose it on Wednesday, depending on who his audience was each day.
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