After waiting nearly eight years and maddening the current administration’s supporters, Vice President Dick Cheney finally made his most forceful defense of the Bush presidency. Speaking with Chris Wallace on the December 21, 2008 “Fox News Sunday,” Cheney blasted incoming VP Joe Biden for comments Biden had made during his campaign for Barack Obama.

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It is fascinating how Biden perceives Cheney as the most dangerous Vice President we’ve ever had, whilst he will be serving under what will most likely be the most dangerous President the United States has ever had. Is this not the same Joe Biden that warned us of the inexperience of Barack Obama in the Democrat primaries? Say it ain’t so, Joe!!!

The fact of the matter is, Biden was an afterthought in the Obama transition until last week, when it became apparent that poor old Joe was being left out of any decisions. Now, the holder of The Office Of Vice President Elect (may he also be praised) is trying to make himself relevant by making the point that the office of VP is relatively irrelevant. So why will we be paying you $221,000 next year, Vice President Elect Biden?

Cheney is correct in his assertion that history will treat the Bush presidency much better than his contemporaries do now. The frustrating thing is that neither Cheney nor Bush made an effective defense of the actions to protect this country from foreign and domestic enemies when they had the bully pulpit. Reagan repeatedly and effectively went over the Congress’ and medias’ collective heads and communicated effectively with the people of this country. With a few exceptions (the case for the Iraq War being one), this administration has been unable to sell a bottle of water to a man dying of thirst. Their inability to make a coherent case on a number of issues has been one of the biggest contributing factors to the nation’s lack of trust in the Republican Party to lead.

In then-Governor Bush’s acceptance speech at the 2000 Republican Convention, Bush said over and over (with reference to Clinton and Gore), “They have not led, we will.” In most instances, people fail to lead by what they do, preferring only to lead by what they say and leave the deeds undone. In the case of the Bush administration, the leading was done by the deeds, but was woefully lacking in words. As a result, a young, energetic communicator with the gift of eloquence is our near term future. Too bad he will set back the cause of conservatism at least 50 years.