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Cheney: Palin pick in ’08 “a mistake”
Hot Air ^ | JULY 29, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 07/29/2012 9:49:25 AM PDT by RobinMasters

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To: The_Media_never_lie
Picking John McCain proved the GOPe learned nothing from picking Bob Dole as a candidate.

They picked Tom Dewey twice, even though he proved himself a loser the first time around. And before that, they picked Wendell Willkie and Alf Landon. You don't have to be Einstein to figure out why the GOP has been dubbed the stupid party.

121 posted on 07/29/2012 11:47:43 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: greene66
Voting for Palin was the first time I was truly enthused about voting since Reagan...Well, if she’s a mistake to the “GOP” leadership, then the GOP does not represent me...

Ditto and bump that!

122 posted on 07/29/2012 11:51:27 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: RobinMasters

Giving ABC an interview brings him down a notch in my book. And lambasting Palin takes him off the list.


123 posted on 07/29/2012 11:53:46 AM PDT by Terry Mross ( To kin and former friends: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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To: pepsionice
...had Palin simply gone on being Alaska governor for a full eight years, and eventually challenged Senator Lisa...it would have been a better path in the long run and given her more time to mature.

You're kidding me.

By that standard, Mitt's not even close to being qualified to run for president. He'd better get his hiney back to Massachusetts and serve another term as Governor, then spend a term in the US Senate before trying his hand at presidential politics again.

It continues to amaze me that some on our side set such a high bar for experience in front of Sarah Palin, and NO other politician. Let me remind you that Sarah Palin had twenty years of experience in public service when she ran for VP. Twenty years.

Not only that, of the four individuals running in the 2008 race, she was the ONLY one of them who possessed any executive experience. She was more qualified than the lot of them to be president.

124 posted on 07/29/2012 11:57:26 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: shalom aleichem

IMO it just shows what we already know—their complaints about Sarah Palin have nothing to do with her level, degree, or type of political experience.


125 posted on 07/29/2012 11:59:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free; All

“Hey DICK, want to win??? How about giving us conservatives top of the ticket instead of arch RINOs like Romney.”

How many elections does it take to figure out that the Cheneys, McCains, Bush’s, Palins are NEVER going to ‘give’ us a conservative????

How many??? When you all stop drinking the GOP Kool aid, that’s when.


126 posted on 07/29/2012 12:00:57 PM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Cricket24
Dick Cheney is WRONG! I would never have voted for McCain WITHOUT Sarah Palin being on the ticket. McCain would have lost by a landslide without her!

There are a lot of shades to this argument. Sarah Palin was not ready. On the other hand, the other three of the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates all had even less relevant experience.

127 posted on 07/29/2012 12:01:28 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: JLS

A nice collection of points nicely made!


128 posted on 07/29/2012 12:01:40 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: VanDeKoik
You left out the part about the SoS of Virginia and Missouri purposefully not allowing the names of his two closest competitors on ballots in those states... all so that mitt could sail to victory in a market known to respond bigtime to negative campaigning.

LLS

129 posted on 07/29/2012 12:03:22 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: RobinMasters
Newt on Palin Pick:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGhy8LVwAo&

130 posted on 07/29/2012 12:06:04 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Uncle Slayton

She is the only Conservative that has been able to make an impact directly on the pop culture... you know... that thing that is destroying our Republic.

LLS


131 posted on 07/29/2012 12:06:40 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Vaquero
I agree that Palin needed more time in higher office.

Yeah, imagine the difference in America today with an Alaskan Corruption fighter in office instead of the Chichago Politics as usual Thugocracy we have endured to date.

132 posted on 07/29/2012 12:09:15 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Cricket24

Dick Cheney is WRONG! I would never have voted for McCain WITHOUT Sarah Palin being on the ticket.

&&&
Same here. And I suspect there are thousands like us.

There was a time when I just loved Cheney — I even have a cat named after him. So sad to find out what he really is....


133 posted on 07/29/2012 12:12:05 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: monkapotamus

Thanks for posting that. Newt supported Sarah and Sarah and Todd supported Newt. The establishment have gone out of their way to nuke them both. Sarah is out stumping for tea party candidates and they perceive her as a huge threat. They fear the tea party and anyone connected with it.


134 posted on 07/29/2012 12:16:27 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: uncbob

There were many dads over in Vietnam...

The GOPe is getting ready to blow another one with Mitt. I would think he would be smart enough to latch on to the excitement at the Beck rally last night, but he doesn’t need the tea party. He will go ahead and pick someone more vanilla than him, Portman is my guess, and not have to worry about being out done by his running mate. Yawn.

Simply disagreeing with Obama will NOT get the job done. But he cannot hear anyone except Rowe.


135 posted on 07/29/2012 12:17:10 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: All

Hey DICK, methinks that new heart of yours came from a PDSer.

Go back to the shotgun range and practice!!!


136 posted on 07/29/2012 12:17:22 PM PDT by ak267 (The Law Of the Sea Treaty...LOST...must be defeated...CALL YOUR SENATORS!!!)
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To: CrosscutSaw
Bush/Cheney was a big mistake.

my my how times change...that woulda got ya banned her in 2003..

the naysayers then were more right than we knew...i saw folks here question Bush from jump street

i didn't till amnesty really...

137 posted on 07/29/2012 12:18:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (this white hair don't cover up my redneck......)
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And another thing....DICK....when you and your GOPe clique were out screwing the conservative base and protecting your little fiefdoms, Palin has been working the grass roots and rallying the base.

Ohhhhh, that’s right, She’s been getting a new batch of CONSERVATIVES into the arena....ahhhh, I see. She’s starting a new club and your friends ain’t in it.


138 posted on 07/29/2012 12:26:04 PM PDT by ak267 (The Law Of the Sea Treaty...LOST...must be defeated...CALL YOUR SENATORS!!!)
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To: uncbob
don't forget Drudge carried Mitt's homo-water and the fact Rush and Hannity played “keep access” footsie

and only Levin actually smacked Romney about

it showed how disassociated GOP leadership is ..by and large...from it's base

this is how parties collapse historically in time

139 posted on 07/29/2012 12:26:36 PM PDT by wardaddy (this white hair don't cover up my redneck......)
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To: RobinMasters

Why does Dick Cheney feel it necessary to attack Sarah Palin?.

by Mark Levin on Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 9:57am ·
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I’m a fan of the former vice president but this isn’t classy. And he’s also wrong. John McCain ran a terrible campaign; the Bush-Cheney administration had become very unpopular with the American people, including many Republicans; and the Bush-Cheney administration was every bit as activist when it came to expanding domestic spending and government activism as the Nixon administration. The continuing attacks on leaders of grassroot conservatives by the Republican establishment, especially former Bush administration officials, need to end now. They got their nominee and they need to focus on Obama.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/dick-cheney-picking-sarah-palin-for-vp-was-a-mistake/

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150943108255946


140 posted on 07/29/2012 12:28:35 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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