The reaction to Dick Cheney's media blitz the last few weeks has been divided within the Republican Party.

National Journal's bi-weekly poll of political operatives, released Friday, found that 57 percent of Republican ops think Cheney has hurt the GOP since leaving office, while 33 percent say he's helped (5 percent said he's had no effect, 5 percent said "both").

Then you have Byron York's piece today, which quotes John Weaver, the Republican strategist who advised Jon Huntsman on a possible presidential run and was a longtime adviser to Sen. John McCain: "If it's 2012 and our party is defined by Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney, then we're headed for a blowout. That's just the truth."

However, on the Sunday talk shows, Republican leaders John Boehner and Michael Steele defended the former vice president's actions. Calling Cheney "a big member in our party," Boehner said "having these voices out there doesn't hurt us, it helps us."