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Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was 'A Mistake'
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| Jonathan Karl
Posted on 07/29/2012 7:38:46 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: mkjessup
Now I’m quaking in my boots. What are ya gonna’ do, shake your cane at me?
To: nhwingut
These clowns gave us all the debt, two wars, and Obama. Go away! Ya, but apparently that takes a degree of experience and skill.
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posted on
07/29/2012 7:08:49 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: 1rudeboy
Ya young whippersnapper, I’ll dance on your grave! lol
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posted on
07/29/2012 7:09:22 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
To: mkjessup
Don’t take checks you can’t cash, old man. (Nice to be called “sonny boy,” though).
To: 1rudeboy
“Age and Treachery will always overcome Youth and Skill.” :)
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posted on
07/29/2012 7:14:34 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
To: mkjessup
Unless the youth is treacherous, of course. That leaves age. Making one, well, old.
To: mkjessup; 1rudeboy
I am not a ‘Cheney hater’, as you, Mr Jessup, would suggest. Others in this thread made an excellent point, had GWB picked a running mate for his second term physically and otherwise qualified to be a viable candidate in 2008, it is quite possible that the Bummer would not have been elected. We all know that Juan was not a viable candidate.
I am also not quick to defend Palin. It is not important. And I do not think she should have been the candidate this time around. Time will soon tell if Mitt picks his running mate wisely. And hopefully Mitt really wants to win this thing...I do not think Juan had his heart in winning from the git-go, but ‘why’ is a puzzlement.
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posted on
07/29/2012 7:46:52 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
To: dirtboy
Cheney helped pick himself? That was a dumb idea considering his second term as VP kept a possible VP from running for POTUS in 2008 and left the door wide open for McCain. McCain was the mistake of 2008.
Cheney as VP was in no way physically up to being POTUS and should have stepped down shortly after the 2004 election. Yea he's a real expert on picking a VP alright. I wonder if Ford picking Nelson Rockefeller as the VP was Cheney's idea also?
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posted on
07/29/2012 7:57:08 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: MestaMachine
You should have asked THEM for a donation to the TEA Party. WE arent going to join them, so they should just join US. I will definitely be using that one next time they call.
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posted on
07/29/2012 8:04:09 PM PDT
by
meadsjn
(Sarah 2012, or sooner)
To: dirtboy
Wow, dirtboy, you’ve really excited the base with this thread on Sarah.
I wish we could get the same response on an eligibility thread. It will take someone with the courage AND track record of Sarah Palin to really clean house on both sides of the aisle after this election
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posted on
07/29/2012 8:34:22 PM PDT
by
circumbendibus
(Obama is an unconstitutional illegal putative president. Quo Warranto in 2012)
To: 9YearLurker
Even if the link for that source were good, I have tested it three times before posting and again. It worked every time. Because it is to a specific post on FR, you do have to wait a bit.
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posted on
07/29/2012 9:46:38 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
To: mkjessup
Yeah poor DumbAss Cheney! Why did he even mention Palin? News Flash Cheney - She ain't running. DumbAss Cheney had to stab a conservative in the back for no reason on a national liberal show. Now it's playing locally over and over again. What exactly did DumbAss Cheney gain by attacking Palin?
Instead he could have said the same thing about Obama, but no, he had to insult Palin. And I am NOT going to take it back. It was a stupid think for him to say. What a jerk! What a disappointment!
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posted on
07/29/2012 10:28:27 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. TY)
To: 1rudeboy
Unless the youth is treacherous, of course. That leaves age. Making one, well, old.
Youth always deludes itself with illusions of it's invulnerability.
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posted on
07/29/2012 11:39:17 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
I am not a Cheney hater, as you, Mr Jessup, would suggest.
Your post #333 suggests otherwise.
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posted on
07/29/2012 11:44:47 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
To: Chgogal
Yeah poor DumbAss Cheney! Why did he even mention Palin? News Flash Cheney - She ain't running. DumbAss Cheney had to stab a conservative in the back for no reason on a national liberal show. Now it's playing locally over and over again. What exactly did DumbAss Cheney gain by attacking Palin?
Instead he could have said the same thing about Obama, but no, he had to insult Palin. And I am NOT going to take it back. It was a stupid think for him to say. What a jerk! What a disappointment!
If Dick Cheney keeled and died due to a blood clot from that new heart of his, you would probably giggle, cheer and say "serves him RIGHT!" now wouldn't you?
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posted on
07/29/2012 11:48:16 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
To: Carry_Okie
No, I’m talking about the source you list in your post—footnote 13.
To: 9YearLurker
While I cannot be responsible for the continuity of a link, you could certainly have tried finding the data yourself. It took me about thirty seconds to find this one:
Alaska faced a $1.65 billion budget shortfall for fiscal year 2009[1] and a similar shortfall for fiscal year 2010, $1.25 billion, in light of drops in oil revenue.[2] In early January 2009 Senate President Gary Stevens stated that the state was facing a budget deficit as large as $2 to $3 billion for FY 2010. [3] The state budget spending-versus-revenue gap is largely due to a decline in the price of oil. In December 2008 state officials anticipated a $388.7 million surplus for FY 2010 but in just two months revenues dropped.[2] In response to the state budget crisis Gov. Sarah Palin proposed that the state draw on reserves. A total of $1.36 billion and approximately $1.2 billion are estimated to be withdrawn for FY 2009 and FY 2010 respectively. Responsible reductions and prudent use of reserve funds that we had set aside for tougher times will help us weather the storm, said Palin. The includes Constitutional Budget Reserve totals $7 billion. [4]
The source links for the above quote are available
here
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:26:29 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
To: Carry_Okie
You’re quoting sources in the midst of the global financial crisis and the middle of her term. She forward funded a lot of state spending and built up the state’s reserves. You’re just all wrong to go after her about her fiscal record as governor and I don’t know what so motivates you.
To: 9YearLurker
Youre quoting sources in the midst of the global financial crisis and the middle of her term. You said she cut spending. I showed you otherwise. She was only there two years, and ran out before TSHTF.
Youre just all wrong to go after her about her fiscal record as governor and I dont know what so motivates you.
All wrong eh? No, the budget of the State of Alaska says you are wrong.
Look, when she showed up at the convention in 2008 I was all for her. Then I did my homework and witnessed her choices, particularly endorsing Fiorina over DeVore in California. I winced at her appearances on TV, blathering little more than pabulum, repeatedly, waiting in vain for some sign of depth. Nice to look at, but little substance. Hence, as to why I don't like her, she's a grandstanding cheer leader whose record is not nearly as conservative as advertised offering blandishments so vague as to be capable of translating into anything when it comes to hard choices. Wasn't her string RINO endorsements enough for you?
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posted on
07/30/2012 1:36:25 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
To: Carry_Okie
You didn’t show otherwise. You’re quoting from a source from her first year in office, I showed you numbers over all her budgets—of which she got three years through.
I take it you don’t live in a purple or blue state, where sometimes you’ve got to go with the most electable—or the Dems entirely get their way.
And yeah, I wish she’d do more wonk-speak in her appearances, but it is the general principles that she connects with people on—and better than any other conservative pol out there—and her actions are all wonk accomplishment.
I’m not a reality TV/celebrity-type fan, and I’d rather she’d spent her time making less money but working putting out serious policy papers on energy and the global economy at the AEI. I also wish she spoke more clearly and strongly against illegal immigration, rather than cutely, like McCain and most in the GOP do. But I don’t get to micromanage the career paths of our political leaders.
You ought to go and double check your work on her gubernatorial record—and you’ll see that she did more cutting than any of our national-class pols has ever done. She was hugely popular in the voting booth in Wasilla, and grew the town, which is what the residents wanted, by building infrastructure and making it more business friendly.
If you didn’t have some sort of personally-motivated antipathy toward her, you’d see she has a better record of cost-cutting and executive governing than anyone else we have in the national arena.
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