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Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was 'A Mistake'
Yahoo/ABC News ^ | Jonathan Karl

Posted on 07/29/2012 7:38:46 AM PDT by dirtboy

Dick Cheney has some advice for Mitt Romney on choosing a running mate: Don't pick another Sarah Palin.

In his first interview since receiving a heart transplant in March, Cheney told ABC News, that John McCain's decision to pick Palin as his running mate in 2008 was "a mistake" - one that it is important from Romney not to repeat.

It's subject on which Cheney has some unique experience. He helped Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush lead their vice presidential searches and, of course, served as vice president for eight years. He's also privately offered some advice to both Romney and Beth Myers, who is leading Romney's search for a runningmate, on the process.

Cheney would not comment on what he told Romney and Myers, but he was harsh in his assessment of McCain's decision to pick Palin.

"That one," Cheney said, "I don't think was well handled."

"The test to get on that small list has to be, 'Is this person capable of being president of the United States?'"

Cheney believes Sarah Palin failed that test.

"I like Governor Palin. I've met her. I know her. She - attractive candidate. But based on her background, she'd only been governor for, what, two years. I don't think she passed that test…of being ready to take over. And I think that was a mistake."

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To: mkjessup

well played


81 posted on 07/29/2012 8:16:20 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: Ditter

Cheney is just gay-rage sour grapes mad because his RINO buddy Dewhurst is about to go down in flames.


82 posted on 07/29/2012 8:17:10 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: nhwingut

Looks like you can dish it out, but you can’t take it, regarding my #71. No worries, I hit the abuse on your puerile graphic up there at #69.

Now get back to hating Dick Cheney, it’s all you got.


83 posted on 07/29/2012 8:17:10 AM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: jimbo123

I have helped Doohurts go down. I have voted for Cruz twice and I plan to vote for him again in Nov.


84 posted on 07/29/2012 8:20:53 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: dirtboy

I agree in part. Palin should have been running for POTUS rather than VP.


85 posted on 07/29/2012 8:22:58 AM PDT by bgill
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To: 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."

The problem was, the Money Party - the moneyocracy funding & directing both parties - threw the election by securing the GOPe Judas goat (McCrisis is more Judas goat than RINO), but before they had Hillary solidly in place.

They screwed the pooch. They were down for 8 with Madame Cankles, now they're switching horses midstream; which is why you see Mittens getting a firehose of cash from GoldmanSachs 3:1 over Obama -- the same ratio Obama got over McCrisis! And GoldmanSachs doesn't lose elections...

86 posted on 07/29/2012 8:23:36 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (2008 + IN, NC, FL, VA, OH, NV o/r IA = 271EV)
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To: dirtboy

So, Romney would have been a better pick in 2008?

Mayb.

Romney going down with the sinking USS McCain would make it harder for him to be the ‘front runner’ this election cycle.


87 posted on 07/29/2012 8:24:18 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: dirtboy

This is Cheney’s opinion. Period.

I agree with him on some issues, and on other issues, not so much.

Sarah almost won the election for McCain. He lost it in spite of her, not because of her.

Cheney has been wrong before (IMO) and he’s wrong about this.


88 posted on 07/29/2012 8:24:18 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (Boston's mayor is anti-Christian and anti-free speech.)
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To: nhwingut
I’d like to find out the politics of the person who donated Cheney’s hearts. Wonder if he was a bleeding heart libtard.

'hearts'? How many do you think he got?

No matter,

"FEEL the hate welling up in you, yes
it has made you STRONG!!!"

89 posted on 07/29/2012 8:24:27 AM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: Ditter
I have helped Doohurts go down. I have voted for Cruz twice and I plan to vote for him again in Nov.

Dick Cheney and his testosterone-deficient GOP-e clones will be mad at you, just like they are at Sarah Palin.
90 posted on 07/29/2012 8:24:58 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: dirtboy

If after a set of grueling primaries for Vice President, Sarah were to be left standing... and THEN, she had to choose her President running mate, she would be making a BIG mistake were she to choose Romney.


91 posted on 07/29/2012 8:25:12 AM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: oldbrowser
"It literally functions as a league of sovereign agencies manned by faceless bureaucrats who take reams of laws and decisions from courts, committees, czars, and interprets them as they see fit."

It's Mandarinism gone mad. More Chinese than Chinese...

92 posted on 07/29/2012 8:25:33 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (2008 + IN, NC, FL, VA, OH, NV o/r IA = 271EV)
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To: dirtboy

Cheney should probably bear in mind that it wasn’t Sarah Palin who told the 2008 voting public that Obama would make a good president.


93 posted on 07/29/2012 8:26:20 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: SkyDancer

Exactly: {Palin carried that POS McCain.

He wouldn’t have gotten half as many votes as he got without her.

The mistake was in not picking her for President.

Cheney is full of chit on this one.

The mistake this year was in not running Bolton for President instead of the Mass. Liberal rich kid Romney.
Unfortunately republican picks come from a pack of RINO’s and not the rank and file republican.

McCain was a lousy candidate and any candidate who say’s we have nothing to fear by voting for his opponent, is an idiot of the first water.


94 posted on 07/29/2012 8:26:40 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: leprechaun9

My post #89 applies to you too.


95 posted on 07/29/2012 8:26:52 AM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: mkjessup; admin

I never once have hit ‘abuse.’ Must have been dmin or someone else. I can take debates. No matter how childish, i.e. You are all haters. Start hating.

Who uses language like that, other than the gay mafia and teenagers.


96 posted on 07/29/2012 8:27:56 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: dirtboy

The Mistake was the RNC picking the likes of Bob Dole and McInsane.


97 posted on 07/29/2012 8:28:14 AM PDT by CodeToad (History says our end is near.)
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To: BlatherNaut

The problem is that guys like Cheney are fine for fighting the democrats but not much else.

I fear that we’re wasting too much time fighting the democrats while we’re losing the ideological/cultural war.


98 posted on 07/29/2012 8:28:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: dirtboy

I think the problem here is that Palin is a social conservative, while Cheney himself is a libertarian who actively campaigns for gay marriage and has little if any interest in the social decay of the USA.


99 posted on 07/29/2012 8:29:12 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: arasina; F15Eagle

Quite right! Cheney is not a stupid man. There’s method to this madness.


100 posted on 07/29/2012 8:30:43 AM PDT by old school
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