George W. Bush tilted hard to the right to find a vice-presidential running mate: Dick Cheney.

After Texas Governor George W. Bush named fellow Texas millionaire oil man Dick Cheney his vice presidential nominee, commentators like Rush Limbaugh tried to paint Cheney as a moderate.

But his record suggests that what Limbaugh and the GOP think is moderate means harsh anti-worker positions and appeasement of racist governments.

The Wall Street Journal labeled him "ultra-conservative," and his record proves it.

As Ronald Reagan's most loyal lieutenant during his decade in Congress, Cheney supported almost every piece of anti-worker legislation that came before the House. In 130 major UAW votes in ten years, Cheney voted against working families 124 times.

Cheney opposed OSHA coverage for all workers in 1980, domestic content requirement for cars in 1983, and plant closing notification in 1985. In 1983 he voted to raise the Social Security retirement age. And in 1987 he supported a law that would have eroded collective bargaining rights.

Cheney voted against providing death benefits to the families of slain police officers and firefighters, the Clean Water Act, and Head Start programs, and he often opposed sanctions on South Africa's brutally racist apartheid government.

Cheney even opposed a resolution calling for Nelson Mandela's release from a South African prison in 1986.

After Congress and a stint in Bush Sr.'s cabinet, Cheney became CEO of Halliburton Co, a Dallas oil servicing company, and last year made $1.28 million in salary after laying off 9,000 employees.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich once said, "Cheney's voting record was slightly more conservative than mine."

Does that sound moderate?