Posted on 07/30/2012 9:38:26 AM PDT by kingattax
ABC News aired part of an exclusive interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney this morning, in which Cheney admitted that the choice of Sarah Palin for vice president in 2008 was a “mistake.”
Liz Cheney took to Twitter to voice her disagreement with her father and her overwhelming support for Palin. Cheney has been very supportive of Palin since her 2008 nomination, and tweeted her dissent with her father earlier today, arguing that Palin is more qualified than the current president and vice president.
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Unfortunately infinitely more qualified than Derelict Duo of 2008 and equally less electable. The risks are too high in this election to have too much polarization on the ballot.
” If love Bachmann but I wouldnt go into a hissy fit if someone said she wasnt ready to run as a number of Palinistas did last year. “
Neither would I, and Palin has backed more than a few RINOS for public office. That to me is not what a conservative leader does.
Palin leads the conservative movement, Bachmann doesn’t.
Let’s hope that the top endorsement in America takes Cruz to the Senate.
Liz is preparing to run for her father’s old seat. She is a good enough politician to know who not to piss off.
Not the same woman.
Liz Cheney is not her sister Mary Cheney.
There is a reason that Sarah Palin chose not to run for president this time. It’s because she knew that she did not have the support of the GOP-E, who would rather see Obama re-elected than her. Sarah, along with the rest of us tea partiers, are a direct threat to their power.
Had Palin run and lost, the GOP-E would have blamed her for the loss they caused. If we are to take back our country, we’ll need to be more strategic than that.
OK, this has been explained to you MANY times. She HAD to help McCain win his AZ primary so she could sew up the nomination against Romney early THIS year.
If she didnt help McCain win (and as a sign of loyalty ) we would have Romney as a nominee right now.... ....what??... you say he is the nominee??....When did that happen?? How many electorals did she get? She didnt even try??? And we are still stuck with RINO McCain who is attacking THE REAL conservative Bachmann?
HA-HA, remember that lame excuse ??
Don't say 'she's not ready'. That drives them nuts. Only she can say that she is not ready on the Levin show then it's like it was written on the Stone Tablets.
So you are saying she didn't run because she knew she would get beaten by Obama. So she strategically let Romney have the nomination after the Bus and book tours, Iwoa passion video, The UnDefeated and dancing with the stars? And helping RINO Mccain?? I guess that was ‘strategic in a way.
Then she seemed to support Newt. If I follow your 'theory' she wanted Newt to lose to Obama and get the blame vfor the loss. Wow that is clever. LOL
The usual children’s play at swatting at the leader of the conservative movement in America.
Ping rabscuttle and pissant to your anti-Palin fest, in the meantime we conservatives are rooting for her to take Cruz over the top tomorrow.
In the same interview with ABC News, Dick Cheney leveled some very tough criticism at Barack Obama. Jonathan Karl asked if Cheney thought Obama was worse than Jimmy Carter, and Cheney said “yes.” This presents an interesting opportunity to illustrate why it was wrong for Cheney to dismiss Palin the way he did, because while most Americans recall Jimmy Carter as an utter disaster, it is very rare to hear any prominent Democrat describe him that way.
Of course, the media is not interested in maneuvering Democrats into a position where they would be expected to denounce Carter, or make them squirm while refusing to do so. But you’re not going to hear any Democrat with stature comparable to former Vice President Dick Cheney say that Carter’s election was a “mistake,” or that he wasn’t ready for the office. Even with decades of perspective, even after Carter has been a thorn in the sides of his Democrat successors, and even though very few Americans would offer a spirited defense of the Carter presidency, top-level elected Democrats will not throw the Rabbit Slayer under the bus… at least, not in front of news cameras.
Cheney had some interesting thoughts to offer about the vice-presidential selection process, including the observation that every presidential candidate has two veep lists: a list of people he wants to be seen as considering, and a much smaller list of truly serious prospects. But those thoughts could easily have been offered without taking an unnecessary and unwarranted shot at Sarah Palin, who gave the woeful McCain campaign the only signs of a pulse it ever had.
I want a consistent conservative. Not one who bolsters Cruz one time, and a RINO the next. I don’t know of any consistent conservative in the spotlight right now.
Well, there is one consistent conservative out there. His name is Thomas Sowell. But he is hardly in the spotlight. In fact, he isn’t ALLOWED there!
I did like Rabs, pissant not so much. He went into a fit one time when I defended Palin. And he liked tax credits,.
Many of those PDSers you cite were just as suckered as your Palinistas cultists were on believing that she WOULD run. That is why they kept posting that she SHOULD NOT run. But not me.....
Nope, I stood above you all like an all knowing seer or prophet and proclaimed consistently that “LO AND BEHOLD, SHE WILL NOT RUN”. And I almost got burned at the stake by your crazy cult for that blasphemy , that turned out to be proved 100% correct. Perceptiveness and reasoning is a cross I bear that keeps me from joining a crazy cult like yours and makes me THE THREAT (does that make me THE ONE???? LOL) .
Your bitterness and anger are something to see but why you want to knock off the leader of the conservative movement and leave Romney without a Reagan wing of the GOP to challenge him, is puzzling.
If you watched the campaigning you may have noticed that Perry jumped in to knock off the Palin momentum just as it looked like she was peaking in preparation for her announcement, the ex-Gore man stayed just long enough to suck the air out of the conservative threat to Romney, then vanished and is now back in Texas fighting Palin and the tea party.
Modesty becomes you : )
I wasn’t positive Palin wouldn’t run..only 94% sure. I became 100% when she failed to resign from Fox News in a timely manner.
????? It was your Joan of Arc the Mamma Grizzy who sent her horse into battle (the primary) without her and allowed Romney to gain the nomination. As I posted a few times on this thread, I never told her to do that.
I believe she said that running for POTUS would interfere with her career over at FNC as a opinionist. Good thing that those who followed her horse into battle without her (she was getting make up on Greta at the time) are so gullible they haven't figured out how snookered they were. The few that survived.
there is a sucker born every minute and suckers are $$ to those willing to play the tease, wink, smile....
Well, no one can say that you aren’t obsessed with a single, simple minded hatred, I guess we conservatives will keep on trucking and be glad that the movement has such an effective leader.
It is hard for a middle class working gal to turn down 1 million a year for 5 years, on an “if come” in the political arena. I doubt if Palin will ever run for office again. At least not until her Fox deal is finished.
I wish her well and victory, GOP women are showing more, uh, uh, courage than GOP males.
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