CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY NOVEMBER 5, 2025
AS YOU HAVE PROBABLY HEARD BY NOW, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY HAS DIED, HE WAS 84. MEDIA REPORTS USE THE SAME LABELS THEY ALWAYS APPLY TO CONSERVATIVES – CONTROVERSIAL, DIVISIVE, WAR MONGER, AND MORE.
MOST PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT CHENEY PERSUADED PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO INVADE IRAQ AND TOPPLE SADDAM HUSSEIN. THEY CLAIMED SADDAM WAS PURSUING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, THOUGH NONE WERE FOUND.
FOR CONSERVATIVES, CHENEY’S DAUGHTER, LIZ CHENEY, ALONG WITH THEIR OPPOSITION TO DONALD TRUMP, WAS A BLACK MARK ON HIM. LIZ CHENEY WAS PART OF THE REPUBICAN SELECT COMMITTEE THAT CONDUCTED A ONE-SIDED INVESTIGATION OF THE RIOT ON CAPITOL HILL ON JANUARY 6, 2021. THAT FOLLOWED THE NOVEMBER ELECTION PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CLAIMED HE WON.
CHENEY WAS A FORMER WYOMING CONGRESSMAN WHO HEADED PRESIDENT-ELECT BUSH’S SEARCH FOR A VICE PRESIDENT IN THE 2000 ELECTION RACE. AND THEN BUSH CHOSE HIM AS HIS RUNNING MATE, AND THE TWO WON THAT ELECTION.
CHENEY SERVED AS WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF UNDER GERALD FORD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND OTHER POSITIONS. I NEVER KNEW IF HE HAD SAVING FAITH. HE NEVER SPOKE OF IT. BUT DESPITE CONTROVERSY OVER SOME OF HIS POLICIES, IT CAN BE SAID HE DID HIS BEST TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY. I’M CAL THOMAS.
