Dick Cheney was relentlessly on message Monday in his “Today Show” interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, almost as if he intended his comments to aid his daughter’s nascent bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Wyoming.
The former vice president — whose book Heart on his own history of heart disease comes out Tuesday — refused to criticize Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or any other aspect of the tea party movement in American politics. And he disagreed with Guthrie that there is any kind of “rift” within the Republican Party.
Instead, Cheney called the tea party a “new wave” in politics. When pressed on the wisdom of Cruz’s gambit to shut down the government over opposition to Obamacare, Cheney turned and criticized President Barack Obama as a “radical.”
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