Cheney For President
That's the title of Ross Douthat's first New York Times column since he joined them as a full-time columnist. Douthat says:

"The former vice-president kept his distance from the Bush administration’s attempts at domestic reform, and he had little time for the idealistic, religiously infused side of his boss’s policy agenda. He was for tax cuts at home and pre-emptive warfare overseas; anything else he seemed to disdain as sentimentalism."

To the extent this characterization of him is correct, I think I would have voted for Dick Cheney--despite his flaws--had Douthat's alternate history come to pass.  (NB: Douthat's no Cheney fan.)  But Cheney's long-standing unpopularity shows that Americans deserve a horrible President.  And so we've got one!   (Which is not to say his predecessor was anything special--or even anything good--merely an improvement on Obama, in large measure because of the influence of Dick Cheney and others like him.)

UPDATE: Further reading reminds me that Cheney was a vocal bailout supporter (as opposed to someone who passively supported his President).  Combine that with his other flaws, and I think I might not have voted for him after all.  This much I can say for sure: however bad he is, he would have been an improvement over McCain and is an improvement over many, many Republicans--which, given his massive flaws, tells you just how badly things are going in this country.