How dare they ask him for a state-issued photo ID!

Vice President Dick Cheney got carded. Not for drinking but for voting.

It happened at the Teton County clerk's office Thursday in Wyoming, when the vice president, accompanied by his wife and a Secret Service detail, dropped in unexpectedly to cast an absentee ballot in next Tuesday's primary election.

An election worker, Mike Farady, asked the vice president for his driver's license.

"The reason is we are supposed to confirm identity with a photo ID and it also helps confirm residency and that was the easiest way to do it," Farady told the Jackson Hole News & Guide. "I know he is the vice president and I know he can vote, but I wanted to make sure he can vote here and now."

Will there be the same complaints from Democrats one would get if the person asked were a retired nun, an African-American ex-con, or an illegal immigrant from Latin America?

Probably not -- after all, he wasn't going to vote for their candidate. And since he is a heterosexual white male US citizen, he's not a member of any of the groups whose interests the Democrats claim to be interested in protecting.

We Republicans, of course, are simply grateful that they take ballot security seriously in some parts of the country.