Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was 'A Mistake'

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[dirtboy]

Palin excited the hard right - but, she amused or scared the mushy middle. And the mushy middle is who decides elections.

And, once again, I call horsecrap. Palin helped McCain to a lead in the polls, and then McCain utterly botched his handling of the financial crisis. He never recovered, so his handlers stabbed Palin in the back.

If Palin is such a lead balloon, then reconcile your claim with the fact that she has helped so many candidates win elections, and is a much-sought-after endorsement for so many pubbies.

[cripplecreek]

Nominating Romney has reinvigorated the moderates and we’re back to square one.

[Carry_Okie]

And if McCain hadn’t picked Sarah he would have gone down to an even more humiliating defeat.

True, although I don't think Cheney was saying that. In commenting that she was an attractive candidate, he was acknowledging that she was pulling in voters. That does not mean she was ready to be CIC in his mind.

[Carry_Okie]

As Sarah repopulates the senate with conservatives, we’ll look back and thank John McCain for that “mistake.”

She is on record having backed RINOs at the expense of conservatives.

[DeadFurrow]

This proves, beyond a doubt, Cheney’s new heart came form a libTard.

[Lady Lucky]

I’ve heard it said the presidency is unique and nobody’s truly prepared for it.
And if anyone is, it’s probably Hillary Clinton, who lived in the White House for 8 years and was married to the President.
So if preparedness is the criterion, Hillary’s the answer.
Surely Cheney wouldn’t endorse her.

But there are other qualities to be considered. Like whether someone’s an American from top to toe and right through to the core. Their life experience, their values, their vision.

And btw, Palin didn’t spend her brief time in the governor’s office doing photo ops and hugging scouts. Nor did she get there by being somebody’s wife. She rose the old-fashioned way: effort and merit.

I like Cheney but this from him is very disappointing.

[Liberty Valance]

Eh tu Dick?

[kanawa]

It would have been so easy for him to give good advice on picking a VP running mate without mentioning Palin at all.
Just seems rude and crude to me.

[hitchwolf]

Screw Cheney. Ran up the debt and 2 idiotic and pointless wars. And I don’t want to get into some long debate about that. I believe they were pointless and idiotic.

So screw him and his neocon bunch.

[JayAr36]

The Republican Establishment in Washington just can't stand a Conservative, Male, Female, Black, White or other. It seems to offend their sense of capitulation. If anyone stands up for America they shiver in their boots, afraid that someone will say something bad about them. Cowards All.

[antonico]

Cheney is nothing more than a Bush family acolyte. As such, the Bush people believe in big government - so long as they and their hand-picked committee chairmen are controlling all the money. They believe in government spending at their core, so it’s not surprising Cheney would utter this stuff. Once the Republican Party has flushed out the Bushes and their family suck-ups (Cheney, Rove, Schmidt, et.al.), the McConnell’s, the Cantor’s and all of the other Progressive Republicans is when we can start to put real meaning in WE The People.

[Amagi]

Never figured Dick for such a RINO>

Perhaps it's the cerebral hypoxia talking.

[RIghtwardHo]

The push is on by the GOP, and has been for awhile now, to marginalize we Tea Partiers. It’s only going to get worse. We are to the GOP as blacks are to the RATS.

[nhwingut]

Obama didn’t win because people didn’t feel Palin was ready (see Obama’s lack of experience as top of ticket, so there goes that argument).

McCain lost because the country was sick of Bush and Cheney.

And so here comes Cheney to rewrite history.

I hope Palin slams him today. But she probably won’t as she has more class than thee turds.

[Lazamataz]

Jeez.

What happens to good conservatives when they go to Washington???!???!??!?!?!?

[old school]

Yeah, that’s right. The American voters are so sophisticated and discerning, that they voted for a loser, who has nearly destroyed this country!

[originalbuckeye]

I don't believe anyone of the GOP could have beaten Obama in 2008. The fix was in. Voter fraud all over the country. ‘Make history’ and vote for the first Black President. ETC! If McCain had won, the Dems would still have gotten everything they wanted with the Dem Senate (stolen) and the Dem House. McCain would have been blamed (like GWB was when the Dem House and Senate pushed through their agenda after the 2006 election) and we would still have been in a mess. Maybe not the mess we are in now, but close. We will have to weed out the traitors in every area of our Government if we want to return to a prosperous and successful country. GWB wanted to make nice with the Dems and look where it got him. Romney, are you listening?

[StAnDeliver]

Nice that the guy who lacked the courage to run for President on his own slams the ticket that replaced him. Nice.

[cripplecreek]

Palin excited the hard right - but, she amused or scared the mushy middle. And the mushy middle is who decides elections.

Then they should be democrats and stop feeding on the comatose body of the GOP. Moderates are nothing but lying, manipulative, bottom feeding scum. All of their holier than thou blather about compromise and reaching out is reserved for their friends on the left. They are the true purists who will never compromise with the right.

They need to man up and moderate the party that actually needs it.