WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday insisted he will be on President Bush's re-election ticket and brushed aside speculation Bush might consider replacing him.

"He's asked me to serve with him on the ticket again for the next 4 years," Cheney told Fox News in one of a series of cable television interviews. "I'm happy to do that as long as I can be of assistance and he wants me in that spot, I plan to serve."

Here's hopin' he stays on the ticket, but I doubt if he will. Scares small children and rational adults. Can you imagine that guy as President? There ain't no one with a barrel of oil we wouldn't "liberate from oppression". And probably use nukes to make sure they stayed free, from oppression.

(Sure glad the US approved the puppet Iraqi council's constitution. After veto threats, of course, but they're getting the idea.)

I think the Rs are playing it this way to avoid an uncontrollable fight over the VP slot. I suspect Cheney will decide he can't do it for health reasons at the last minute, and Bush will pick someone immediately, without giving contenders time to start tearing each other apart.

Arf