Call Indiana a "red" state or a "blue" state, there's one thing that most of the country has agreed on for a while: Dick Cheney was a terrifying presence in political process for far too long.
Which for an embattled Dan Coats, is worth remembering as he reads headlines like "Coats hires Cheney spokesman."
Republican Sen. Dan Coats - hoping to be the once-and-future Senator from Indiana - has hired a high-profile spokesman - Kevin Kellems, the former communications director for Vice-President Dick Cheney often tasked with defending the controversial Saddam Hussein-al Qaeda link.
Kellems has an unusually heavy-duty White House-national security resume, coupled with deep Hoosier connections. The Indiana native - who recently served as a spokesman for Secretary of State Todd Rokita who passed on a bid against incumbent Evan Bayh, and served as a spokesman for Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) before his White House stint and ran unsuccessfully for an Indiana House seat in '00.
For what it's worth, this makes day six or so in which we haven't heard from Coats, who appears content to drink his hot chocolate and cozy up next to his custom-made fireplace in Virginia while his pay-to-play workers trudge around the state collecting signatures.
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