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Cheney: Palin no lock to be GOP nominee in 2012
AP ^ | 21 Dec 2008 | AP

Posted on 12/21/2008 8:28:23 AM PST by BGHater

Vice President Dick Cheney says he's confident Republicans will rebound from this year's election defeats. But he doesn't know if Sarah Palin will be the candidate to lead the comeback.

Cheney said the Alaska governor who was John McCain's running mate this year is no lock to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012. Cheney says Palin will have to "earn it," just like anybody else would.

Besides capturing the White House, Democrats widened their majorities in the House and Senate in this year's elections.

Cheney likens the current political cycle to the 1970s, when Republicans lost the White House following the Watergate scandal. Republican Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980, after just a single term for Democrat Jimmy Carter.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; cheney; elections; gop; palin
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To: Jeff Head

Thanks,Jeff....
That’s an awful lot of admiration and support for somebody who’s not gonna be the lock in 2012,don’t you think?


21 posted on 12/21/2008 8:46:29 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Sarahloution!!!!!)
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To: icwhatudo
AP trying hard to make a reasonable remark look like another attack on Palin

You stated that well

22 posted on 12/21/2008 8:47:16 AM PST by BRL
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To: BGHater

G.O.B.C. at work. “Good Old Boys Club”


23 posted on 12/21/2008 8:47:56 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: stockstrader

Post that to me in four years or so we shall see Even the left will want to get rid of him


24 posted on 12/21/2008 8:51:06 AM PST by al baby (Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own partyÂ’s establishment in Alaska a)
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To: BGHater

Typical GOP performance standards, “We’re less worse than the Democrats”.

What’s next the Denney Hastert Weight Loss Show?
Hair Care Grooming With Trent Lott.
Huckabee Hospital Tour?
HW and GW Elocution Show and Better Living Through Debts( Replaces “How I Was A Doormat, And Liked It Show”.


25 posted on 12/21/2008 8:52:46 AM PST by Leisler
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To: BGHater
If Palin was governor of any other state besides Alaska, I'd say she didn't really have a shot. Alaska IS unique and she has MORALS.

In 4 years, we WILL know Mr. Obama and the people will be crying for Capitalism and Morality.

26 posted on 12/21/2008 8:52:57 AM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: stockstrader

“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘Make us your slaves, but feed us.’” (Dosteovsky’s Grand Inquisitor.)


27 posted on 12/21/2008 8:54:00 AM PST by Leisler
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To: gimme1ibertee
Exactly...except I believe she is going to be the nominee...and the Liberals, Dems, marxists, and RINOs know it and fear it.

So they hate her and attack her for it...just like they did Clarence Thomas and reagan and any other threat to their desire for an absolute hammer-lock monopoly on this nation.

PALINN 2012!

28 posted on 12/21/2008 8:56:20 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: BGHater
Vice President Dick Cheney says he's confident Republicans will rebound from this year's election defeats. But he doesn't know if Sarah Palin will be the candidate to lead the comeback.

I was wondering four years ago who might Bush be preparing to replace him on the Republican ticket. Other than friendly meetings with the Clintons, and witfull suggestions that Hillary might next occupy the White House, there was no one in the "batter's box" for the Republicans.

I can tell you one thing; now I have someone in mind for the next presidential election, and that is Sarah Palin. Sure, there are or may be others, but she alone represents what I am looking for in terms of integrity, honesty, and support for the culture of life, and more...

29 posted on 12/21/2008 8:57:07 AM PST by olezip
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To: BGHater
We will be damn lucky if there IS a USA by 2012, and if there is, under czar Hussein, it may not look anything like the grand old 80s.
30 posted on 12/21/2008 8:59:37 AM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: Jeff Head; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; ntnychik; potlatch; devolve; dixiechick2000

Ah lock Sarah a lot. Mr. McChurian, not lock him so much.

31 posted on 12/21/2008 9:02:04 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: BGHater

I agree she will have to earn it. After watching her campaign for VP i am sure she will out campaign everyone. So she is no lock but she has my vote.


32 posted on 12/21/2008 9:02:26 AM PST by carjic (I would crawl over a mile of "Broken Glass" to vote for Palin!!!)
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To: al baby

The electorate will be even more ignorant in 4 years. He’ll win again.


33 posted on 12/21/2008 9:04:25 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: BGHater
Someone yesterday sited a video that I CAN NOT FIND that ask 12 questions of average people. They were just so uninformed and though Palin said things that Hillary or Obama said. It showed the power of the misleading press. Please, someone, send it to me. THANKS.
34 posted on 12/21/2008 9:06:16 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Jeff Head
Hey thank you for the Photos!! They were uplifting in this time of uncertainty.
35 posted on 12/21/2008 9:16:45 AM PST by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: stockstrader
Also consider that the demographics will be in Obama’s favor. There will be less conservatives and more liberals eligible to vote in 2012. If Obama grants amnesty to illegals, it will be difficult for him to lose.
36 posted on 12/21/2008 9:17:34 AM PST by MBB1984
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To: BGHater

He is correct of course. And who knows if she wants to even try for the nomination? Put her family through all the associated crap?


37 posted on 12/21/2008 9:18:14 AM PST by tips up
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To: tips up

Of course he’s right. I dunno if Gov. Palin would want to get attacked by jackals again.


38 posted on 12/21/2008 9:19:18 AM PST by BGHater (Obama is a Neocon.)
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To: 70th Division

I don’t know if this is the report you’re referring to, but this one shows how uniformed Obama’s voters were.

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/11/ignorance-and-media-elected-this.html
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Ignorance and the Media elected this President

Released: November 18, 2008

Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test

Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden

UTICA, New York — Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.

Zogby Statement on Ziegler poll

Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly.

The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President–Elect Joe Biden. The telephone survey of 512 Obama voters nationwide was conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points. The survey was commissioned by John Ziegler, author of The Death of Free Speech, producer of the recently released film “Blocking the Path to 9/11” and producer of the upcoming documentary film, Media Malpractice...How Obama Got Elected.

“After I interviewed Obama voters on Election Day for my documentary, I had a pretty low opinion of what most of them had picked up from the media coverage of the campaign, but this poll really proves beyond any doubt the stunning level of malpractice on the part of the media in not educating the Obama portion of the voting populace,” said Ziegler.

Ninety-four percent of Obama voters correctly identified Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter, 86% correctly identified Palin as the candidate associated with a $150,000 wardrobe purchased by her political party, and 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned. When asked which candidate said they could “see Russia from their house,” 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of “none” or “Palin” was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin.

Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden — 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.

Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.

In addition to questions regarding statements and scandals associated with the campaigns, the 12-question, multiple-choice survey also included a question asking which political party controlled both houses of Congress leading up to the election — 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1642


39 posted on 12/21/2008 9:20:46 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: BGHater

VP Cheney, no disrespect sir, but you are full of shit.


40 posted on 12/21/2008 9:22:08 AM PST by Gaffer
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