Here is a patriot most here never even remotely traveled close to the circles he walked in and experienced first hand ..
He Cheney thinks or was concerned Palin was ready to POTUS I take the mans word for it...
What town, however large or small, were they ever mayor of?
What state, however large or small, were they ever governor of?
Cheney is part of the Republican establishment.
In other words, he’s part of the problem.
Mr. Vice President, I don’t know what’s sadder: That you said it in the first place, that you took it back, or that it took a week for you to figure out you had to take it back.
Gotta feel sorry for Dick Cheny. The TeaParty made him irrelevant.
I thought Dick listened to me the first time, when he decided - after his Palin remark - that was going to be “gone fishin” until after the election.
Why Mr Hannity did you bring Dick back? Were your ratings too low, or are you, like Dick, stoking the fires of resentment between the grassroots and the GOP establishment. Keep it up, you’ll help get enough grassroots Conservatives switching from “holding our nose” to doin like Dick and “goin fishin”.
That’s “walking it back?” Seems like he double-downed. The truth, as everyone knows, is that the mistake lay in the PRESIDENTIAL candidate. And in 4 years, we’ve apparently learned NADA.
Cheney did not, and continues to not, do his daughter Liz any favors related to her possible political future in Wyoming by, in effect, bad mouthing Sarah Palin in an uncalled for manner based upon falsehoods.
Looks like Cheney just got blasted in the face this time around.
His new heart must have come from a lib.
Ronald Reagan NEVER trusted Tricky Dicky Cheney who was chief of staff in the Ford-Rockefeller administration.
Reagan’s biggest mistake may have been to trust the head spook in the Ford-Rockefeller administation. Good spycraft after all is not about trust but deceit as he broke trust with ALL conservatives who expected him to keep his no new taxes pledge.
When the head-spook in the Ford-Rockefeller had his bacon saved by the genuine conservative Lee Atwater and became president he NEVER trusted Tricky Dicky Cheney either and Cheney was NEVER on GHWB’s list of first choices for his cabinet. The Ultimate Washington elitist insider John Tower was GHWB’s first choice for secretary of defense, but Tower’s elitist insider baggage was a little too heavy for him to carry through confirmation hearings.
A.B. Culvahouse Praises Sarah Palin
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin can still count A.B. Culvahouse Jr. as one of her defenders in the Lower 48.
Culvahouse, O’Melveny & Myers’ chairman and the leader of the team that vetted Palin before Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose her as his running mate last summer, spoke about Palin this morning at the Republican National Lawyers Association’s policy conference at the National Press Club. During the vetting process, said Culvahouse, “Me and two of my most cynical partners interviewed her, and came away impressed.” Culvahouse added that Palin would “have been a great vice president,” and said that he told McCain exactly that.
So what was so impressive? Culvahouse said Palin hit certain, particularly tough questions “out of the park,” such as whether she was prepared to use nuclear weapons, and whether she would order the CIA to shoot Osama bin Laden even if it guaranteed civilian deaths. Culvahouse did not offer the details of Palin’s answers, but said, “She had a lot of capacity.”
Culvahouse waved off some of Palin’s more controversial moments during the campaign. He questioned the editing of the now-infamous Katie Couric interview, in which Palin was unable to name Supreme Court cases she disagreed with other than Roe v. Wade. Culvahouse said Palin obviously knew about the Exxon Valdez case, since his firm represented Exxon in the matter, and Palin herself was at one time a plaintiff.
He offered some insight into the vetting process as well. Culvahouse said he had a team of 30 lawyers helping him, and that there were 26 contenders on the long list of possible vice presidents. He said “John was the decider” when it came to the vetting process, and that there was not a committee pushing McCain to choose one way or another.
Culvahouse said he only learned he would lead the vetting team when it was publicly announced. He said the campaign asked if he would be involved in legal policy issues after he and Wiley Rein’s Richard Wiley hosted a fundraiser for McCain in October 2007. Culvahouse agreed that if McCain won the Republican nomination, he would help with vetting, but he said he didn’t hear from the McCain campaign for months after that. Then, during a press conference in Miami, when asked who would lead his vice presidential vetting effort, McCain announced that Culvahouse had the job.
Too little too late, Dickie.
And dare I say it even sounds a bit weasel like.
>> “It wasn’t aimed so much at governor Palin”
Not sooo much, but just a teensy weensy bit?
It was an idiotic and callous remark for such a brilliant man.
His raw hate for the lovely Gov is obvious and disgusting!
Lost even more respect for him damn little left.
The brain transplant from Joe Biden is placed in the RESET mode!
I have lost much of my previous respect for Cheney as a wise, thoughtful,old (even though younger than myself) person. His reported comment about Palin topped the list.