Cornyn says Cheney could help 2010 candidates

Christian Science Monitor:

Senator John Cornyn, the top campaign strategist for his fellow Senate Republicans, said he sees “significant opportunities in 2010″ when he expects the races to focus on voters’ worries about federal spending and borrowing.

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) also said former Vice President Dick Cheney could be useful as a campaign surrogate in the upcoming battle to win senate seats depending “on the circumstance and on the race.” Cornyn added, “I would be proud to appear with the vice president, anywhere, anytime.”

Speaking at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast on Thursday, Cornyn said, “I think 2010 is likely to be about spending and borrowing and the anxiety the public have there as well as the failure to deal with other looming fiscal challenges like entitlement reform that threaten to swamp us.”

While stressing that “nobody would hope for” the economy to remain troubled, Cornyn noted that “I don’t expect unemployment to go down significantly. So I think there will be serious economic anxiety going into the 2010 elections, not to mention the possibility of hyper inflation as the economy improves and you see all this money sloshing around in the global economy.”

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I think VP Cheney in standing up for principal and defending the integrity of the Bush administration has forced Democrats to squirm. Rather than being a figure of derision as they have tried to paint him, Cheney has been the guy with the persuasive argument on national security that has forced Democrats to back gown on the Gitmo closing that Obama wants. Obama was less than successful to day in making his argument by once again relying on moral preening rather than rational argument.