57% of GOP Insiders Think Cheney Has 'Hurt the Republican Party Since Leaving Office'

Posted by Matt Corley, Think Progress at 9:54 AM on May 15, 2009.

Cheney's refusal to leave the public stage has many Republicans wincing.

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Since leaving office, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been perhaps the most prominent conservative critic of the Obama administration. But his refusal to leave the public stage has many Republicans wincing. In the latest National Journal poll of GOP insiders, 57 percent said that Cheney has “hurt” the party since leaving office:

Speaking to National Journal anonymously, many of the insiders harshly denounced how he has acted since leaving office. “Cheney represents the grumpy intolerance that has come to characterize the GOP. Get off the stage!” said one. “There is nothing Dick Cheney can say or do to help the Republican Party today,” said another. “The best thing he can do is disappear for the next 10 years.”

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