Posted on 08/01/2012 4:48:29 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
On Fox News’ On The Record, Sarah Palin responded to Dick Cheney saying in an interview earlier this week that she should not have been chosen as John McCain‘s running mate in 2008. Palin said that Cheney made a rare “misfire,” and suspected that he had bought into the “lamestream media” spin on the election.
Greta Van Susteren noted that Liz Cheney made it clear that she disagrees with her father on Palin, before asking the former Alaska governor what she thought of Cheney’s comments. Palin admitted she was not happy with the former vice president’s thoughts on her qualifications.
“Well, seeing as how Dick — excuse me, Vice President Cheney — never misfires, then evidently he’s quite convinced that what he had evidently read about me by the lamestream media, having been written, what I believe is a false narrative over the last four years, evidently Dick Cheney believed that stuff and that’s a shame. So he characterized me as being a mistake.”
Palin said that she felt “honored” to accept the nomination to be McCain’s running mate, and that the true mistake would have been if she had decided to “hunker… down,” stay in Alaska, and serve out the rest of her term as governor.
Van Susteren noted that Cheney wrote in his memoir that Condoleezza Rice cried on more than one occasion, wondering why he would want to say things like that to prominent women like her and Palin. Palin said that Cheney just misfired, just as she believed the GOP establishment misfired when other Republicans made similar statements about her 2008 candidacy.
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I'm for term limits and age limits too. The Senate seems to double for an old elitist folks home which many members leave in the stiff horizontal position. Send the geezers packing while still breathing and in with the younger, more conservative bloods.
Right or wrong, Cheney is his own man. He’s a career politician who’s made speaking his mind his trademark. I don’t think it was the lamestream media at all, I think it was his real opinion, which I disagree with, but still his own.
After the inauguration in January 2009... bush was at 27% approval... cheney was at 13%.
LLS
I think it’s interesting that most everyone here loved Cheney until he said something they disagreed with. His opinion of Mrs Palin seems to have more of you upset than his views on homo-marriage.
Dick was a DC insider since the 70’s. His entire career was made in Washington. I’ve lost all respect for Dick. He needs to shut up and go away, it’s our turn now.
The media has destroyed Palin’s image, just as they did with Dan Quayle and so many others.
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Exactly. But it pains me to know that Cheney, whom I once admired greatly, follows their lead.
V.P. Cheney is a bit of a misogynist and definitely leans to the “men only” clubs. Otherwise, Mr. Cheney is a patriot. Ms Palin is a favorite....she energizes the moderates and conservatives and that is grand in its self!
At first, I thought Sarah should blow off the Cheney remark, since the media clearly wanted to see a fight between the two. But on seeing her last night, I’m glad she strongly stood up against this crap. I like Cheney, but he’s wrong on homo marriage, and he’s wrong here. McCain’s loss would have been even bigger if she hadn’t been his running mate. Also, Cheney should bear in mind that it wasn’t Sarah who went around saying it would be okay to vote for Obama.
Cheney is caught up in the idea that one needs twenty five years of experience to run for VP. That kind of thinking doesn’t wash any longer. Some of the most experienced politicians in Washington are also the most corrupt. We’ll take constitutional clarity and conservative principles instead.
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I didn't choose the word ‘angry’, it was the title from Josh Feldman (Mediaite). And let each one decide on his/her own.
Hey LLS,
13% Who is Cheney to lecture anyone about “experience”
when picking a VP? All his “experience” in DC earned himself
a 13% approval. So much for “experience”.
>>> ... that acceptance speech in ‘08, it was clear we had a media mega-star ....
Because up to that point, we have fake ‘conservatives’ like Frum, Brooks, and Noonan playing the role on paper/tv talk shows.
Palin showed how one think, talk (i.e. fight), and live a conservative life.
Sarah, you are the best thing to hit American politics since Ronald Reagan.
You will never be a "mistake".
Cheney could have used so many other words--like miscalculation;misjudgment;error;--but he chose to say "mistake"--a word which the haters loved to use about Trig.
Shame on you, Mr. Cheney. You gave ammunition needlessly to the other side for no gain. Very foolish.
Don’t expect any rational perspectives on a Sarah thread. Outrage and indigence are the order of the day . . . even though Sarah herself did appear to be terribly offended or upset by Cheney’s mild evaluation of the 2008 election.
If she did, then she doesn’t have the class necessary to be President of the United States. Cheney respectfully referred to her as “Governor Palin.” If she is petty and classless enough to fire an ad hominem, then she isn’t who I believe her to be. Let’s hope she didn’t mean anything by it beyond a simple informality.
Cheney doesn't misfire, and yet he did. That was no error.
Did you expect it to come up roses with Gov. Palin on the receiving end?
Gov. Palin doesn't misfire either, and yet she temporarily omitted Cheney's title. That was no error either.
I would re-phrase your statement: anyone willing to be used as a punching bag does not have the strength of character to be President.
LLS
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