Dick Cheney just arrived to a thunderous standing ovation in Washington at the Conservative Political Action Conference  — a surprise appearance announced by his daughter Liz Cheney, who was speaking in the ballroom moments before.

“A welcome like that almost makes me want to run for office,” he said to another round of applause.

“But I’m not going to do it.”

He spoke briefly and left the stage, not before predicting that President Barack Obama would be a “one-term president.”