Perhaps not “more qualified”, but certainly “less unqualified”.
I’d call Palin more qualified than Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, Romney, Bachmann, Santorum, Perry, Cain, and just about every current or former US Senator, Congressman, or Governor. It’s a shame that at this point in her life she and her family were not ready to face the pure evil from the far left fringe and their propaganda corps in the mainstream media. I hope America deserves someone at her level in four years, that we will have a free election then, and that her family is ready for the battle.
Liz Cheney is right on!!! Obama is a moron racist, elitist and Biden is a buffoon’s buffoon!!! Palin has more smarts in her little pinky finger then Obama, Biden and the entire Democrat Party combined!!! End of story!!!
McCain would have lost by 30 points if he had not chosen Sarah. Her mistake was how she handled the media. She
was done in by Katie Couric and Saturday Night Live.
This is really pointless subject/debate.
If Palin thought she was ‘ready to be POTUS’ then she would have run for POTUS as so many here (for about two years) claimed she was doing. She is a better judge of her abilities than the Cheney’s who..... didn’t Cheney pick himself in 2000? Well I am sure he thinks that ‘he’ was a great ‘pick’ he made.
Who is Liz Cheney? Another FNC commentator?
A real test of unconditional love for Dick for his daughter: gay and now politically dissenting.
I respect Cheney for his years of service...and he did serve well. But lately, he just sounds like a grumpy old man who is mad at everyone.
I don’t understand why this is even coming up now. The 2 early morning shows on FOX both covered it with more emphasis on the fact that her “only experience” was as a governor for two years. There seemed to be a consensus among all the broadcasters and responders that only experience in a government job is worth anything.
It’s almost as if they feel the need to dispense with and minimize Palin once and for all before the Republican convention this fall.
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.