Posted on 07/29/2012 9:49:25 AM PDT by 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”:
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I personally think some insider to the McCain inner circle pushed Palin as someone likely to stumble the campaign.
The problem with that is that the Palin pick energized the campaign and the ticket was pushing ahead of Obumbles/Mongoloid until the economy tanked.
Because i saw Sarahs handler during the 08 campaign was a Romney worker. Because the 50k wardrobe story came from a Romneybot inside McCains campaign assiged to Sarah. Because i saw Romneyboy Schmidt stop Sarah from an election night speech.
I have witnesses that the negatives she has, resulted from a 3 year campaign the GOP has rarely see to tear her down.
And because i havent seen Sarah endorse him. I think she was just what we needed. I wasn’t alone. So he worked hard to destroy here in a very personal way.
If Romney wants my vote, all he has to do is go ask Sarah to endorse him. Whats so hard about that? LOL
The RINOs are herding around their guy. It was inevitable that it woud happen.
I bow to the superior wisdom and knowledge of Dick Cheney.
And yet the Bush family, which should have a better idea of ‘what it takes’, in terms of experience, to serve as president than the Big Dick has, has been all hot for the 2-year US Senator Marco Rubio, who has no executive or private sector experience and is years younger than Palin was when she was picked, to be named as Romney’s veep.
What a tool.
Stunning stupidity (or they just want “their man” named so they’ll continue to have ‘access’.)
“I have witnesses that the negatives she has, resulted from a 3 year campaign the GOP has rarely see to tear her down.”
Make that i have wittnessed that the negatives she has, resulted from a 3 year campaign the GOP has rarely seen to tear her down.
Of course he has high negatives. The GOP worked relentlessly to create them, especially in the year when TEA arose. So if they want my vote, they need to go do some Sarah ass kissing. And it isn’t about her personally, it’s that SHE represents what i think. So what they have done to her, they have done to me too.
So i conclude they must not need my vote too badly. Otherwise, they wouldn’t flip me the finger.
OOPS! Forgot the sarcasm tag.
Bet you didn't know that either.
The whole point of not telling anyone about that feature was so enlistments wouldn't be discouraged.
Never heard that! wow
“Bush/Cheney was a big mistake.”
Nope, Cheney not Bush/Chenney was a mistake.
1. Cheney had to lie to be nominate and not forfeit the Texas electoral votes. So he quickly changed his voter registration to Wyoming from Texas.
2. He was too ill and too old to ever run for president so at the end of the Bush years, their was no one in line. So the rino John McCain was able to step into the vacuum and get the nomination.
3. His health meant that Cheney was always far less prepared than Palin to handle the job of president.
4. He was too inside the beltway then and now as his foolishness not well reasoned opinion on Palin shows.
When you ask someone to help you pick a VEEP or any other position, they are excluded. It is not at all unusual for the guy in charge to have a moment where he wants to pick the advisor vetting candidates. It is a natural human emotion to say, well what about you. A big person, a responsible friend and advisor says no, I have discovered these candidates that are better. Cheney was apparently too big an egotist and as his opinion on Palin shows too small an intellect to be a good friend and advisor to G.W.Bush at that moment and decline.
Wow - I am very disappointed to hear Cheney say that. I have always respected him and appreciated his service to the country. It’s hard to hear him say that about Sarah.
I only voted for Sarah, not for McCain. Had McCain picked someone else I doubt I’d have voted for him period. I think without Sarah McCain would have lost by a landslide and it would have never gotten as close as it did before he suspended his campaign and ran back to DC to handle the economic crisis.
“I’d say picking John McCain was the huge mistake.”
I absolutely agree with you and Cheney making a statement like this I find irritating....to me it is like the Dems still blaming Bush for everything and now the GOP is still trying to blame Palin for McCain’s loss.......
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.
Disagree. By your assertion, the Tea party is already dead.
Hardly. It’s still growing.
The Tea Party will be there to hold a President Romney to account just like Jugears McSandtrap. We are much more active in the Senate and House races than POTUS and a Romney presidency is very much working toward Tea Party goals. Why? Because hammering Romney on fiscal conservatism will start to overcome the vicious media narrative and prove, once and for all to see, we couldn’t care less about race.
The key is Congress, not POTUS. That, and the State and Local level, is the long game. A more Conservative, less RINOy Congress is key to fixing this nation. The Dems are committing slow suicide, as far as I am concerned and we are making gains at the State and Local level.
Jeez... isn't that a ridiculous overreaction? He said some nice things about Palin but expressed his opinion that she wasn't ready to be the number two person in the free world.
Can't you just disagree with Cheney without losing your mind?
I disagree with people all the time, but I don't feel the need to insult them over nothing.
Picking John McCain proved the GOPe learned nothing from picking Bob Dole as a candidate.
Picking John McCain proved the GOPe learned nothing from picking Bob Dole as a candidate.
My first thought, too. The media pre-picked him and a lot of people bought it.
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