Cheney: Palin pick in ’08 “a mistake”

Hot Air ^ | JULY 29, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

[RobinMasters]

As we wait for Mitt Romney to pick his running mate in the next few weeks, the last successful GOP running mate has been privately advising the current GOP nominee and the head of his VP search committee, Beth Myers. Cheney believes that the #2 slot has to be filled with someone ready to take over the top job on Day 1 — and that John McCain flunked that test in 2008. In an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Cheney called the selection of Sarah Palin “a mistake”:

[silverleaf]

Does Cheney not think Sarah Palin, his fellow Republican leader, has feelings and dignity and did not deserve for him to publicly slam her?

Didn’t Reagan have some wise saying about Republicans not belittling each other?

[SECURE AMERICA]

Palin was more ready then McCain.
McCain lost not Palin........

[shalom aleichem]

Yes, I will have lost much respect for Cheney if he was accurately quoted (and I will check it out)

[DesertRhino]

Said it before, and i’ll say it again. Cheney is a tough guy, as long as other people have go act do the tough stuff on his behalf. And he is no conservative. He’s a gay marriage, open borders, NWO Bushie. Pure GOPe. A total tool that plays that Wyoming macho persona for all its worth.

And didn’t go to Vietnam, because he “had more important things to do”.

But he is worshipped here sometimes. Weird.

[Vigilantcitizen]

In an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Cheney called the selection of Sarah Palin “a mistake”:

If the GOP was intended on replacing Mondale's run for president as "Most Epic fail" ever.

[Uncle Slayton]

The mistake was the Sarah Palin was not at the Top of the Ticket in 2008.

And that mistake has been repeated in 2012 as Sarah Palin will be be at the top of the GOP Ticket.

[kneehurts]

The mistake is the GOPe selecting Romney at the head of this years Republicrat ticket! Just as bad, if not worse than the selection of McSTAIN in 08.

[rod1]

McCain was the loser from day 1. He remains one of Obama’s biggest fans.

[TYVets]

I think Palin was the reason McCain did as well as he did.

Agreed

McCain was a terrible pick. Without Palin, McCain's defeat would have been even worse.

Thank you MSM & Reps elites for giving us 0bama. (/s)

[Steelfish]

Got that one right. His daughter shamelessly and disgustingly “married” her lesbian partner.

[Valpal1]

I think Cheney is wrong and that SP could have easily shouldered the burden of being POTUS from day one. She’s smart, tough, thick-skinned, humble, a good learner and above all else, principled.

Big government experience is not all its cracked up to be, or career politicians wouldn’t have wrecked the ship of state as badly as they have.

The more government experience a pol has, the more likely they are to have been corrupted by that experience.

[DesertRhino]

When Cheney became eligible for the draft, during the Vietnam War, he applied for and received five draft deferments. In 1989, The Washington Post writer George C. Wilson interviewed Cheney as the next Secretary of Defense; when asked about his deferments, Cheney reportedly said, “I had other priorities in the ‘60s than military service.”

Arrogant turd

[Marathoner]

if she’s a mistake to the “GOP” leadership, then the GOP does not represent me, and the only “mistake” was that I ever put any faith, trust or respect in the Republican Party, which obviously holds people like me in contempt.

You said it all!

[RIghtwardHo]

Of course it’s orders from the GOP Elite. They want to make sure Sarah is shut out of the convention. I hope she finds a way in, or upstages them nearby.

[navymom1]

Why am I sensing that Dick Cheney has once again put the media in it’s place without even breaking a sweat? I don’t believe for one minute that he feels this way about Palin. Gotta think he is playing a game designed to eventually benefit the GOP somehow.

[shalom aleichem]

Yes, Cheney was classless, especially the way Sarah has been so disgracefully mishandled and pilloried.

Reagan observed the 11th Commandment (Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican).

Reagan said he got it from California State GOP Chair Gaylord Parkinson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Commandment_(Ronald_Reagan)

[RIghtwardHo]

Do ANY of you people really need any more evidence that the Romney forced nomination is part of a grand GOP elite plan to marginalize the Tea Party? They want us to be like the blacks in the RAT Party . just line up and vote for who we tell you boys.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My immediate thought, too. Palin was inspired. Nominating old, lethargic, listless, “cross-the-aisle,” uninspiring, GOP-Establishment to the core, McCain was an epic blunder.

[Dawgreg]

Yeppers. I voted for Sarah Palin not that motard McCain. The Republican party is in the crapper as far as I’m concerned. :(

[VanDeKoik]

I just stunned at how people still treat this person like she is so incapable of being president.

I was one of those “I hope she runs” people back last summer, and thinks if she was president today, our nation would be on the rise “big time”.

I mean, come on, Mr. Cheney, you didnt even run for the job yourself!