Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was 'A Mistake'

Yahoo/ABC News ^ | Jonathan Karl

[dirtboy]

Dick Cheney has some advice for Mitt Romney on choosing a running mate: Don't pick another Sarah Palin.

In his first interview since receiving a heart transplant in March, Cheney told ABC News, that John McCain's decision to pick Palin as his running mate in 2008 was "a mistake" - one that it is important from Romney not to repeat.

It's subject on which Cheney has some unique experience. He helped Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush lead their vice presidential searches and, of course, served as vice president for eight years. He's also privately offered some advice to both Romney and Beth Myers, who is leading Romney's search for a runningmate, on the process.

Cheney would not comment on what he told Romney and Myers, but he was harsh in his assessment of McCain's decision to pick Palin.

"That one," Cheney said, "I don't think was well handled."

"The test to get on that small list has to be, 'Is this person capable of being president of the United States?'"

Cheney believes Sarah Palin failed that test.

"I like Governor Palin. I've met her. I know her. She - attractive candidate. But based on her background, she'd only been governor for, what, two years. I don't think she passed that test…of being ready to take over. And I think that was a mistake."

[jjw]

mccain suspended his campaign on about 9/24/2008. look how that helped



but surely this was palin's fault.

[Paladin2]

"...she'd only been governor for, what, two years. I don't think she passed that test…of being ready to take over."

Bleech, Zer0 had less experience.

[LibLieSlayer]

Look Dick... I like you and you were a good VP... but you are wrong on sodomy and homosexuals marrying and you are wrong about Sarah. Now STFU and invite roberts bird hunting.

LLS

[riri]

I agree only to the point of maybe picking Palin was a gamble and Romney has no room for gambling. ( it was a gamble that paid off as Sarah was the only thing that made me enthuistic about voting for McCain)

[Bringbackthedraft]

LOL, I’m still seeing Palin stickers on cars with McCain removed from the top of them. Lets face it, Palin is too down to earth and “Honest” to be a D.C. politician. I don’t see her as a match up with Romney, unless she was on top of the ticket, so let him cook in his own stew.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“I like Governor Palin. I’ve met her. I know her.”

“But she is not ‘of the body’. She is not of the Illuminati, nor of The Sacred Order of the Elites. She is not an Internationalist, and has not embraced the New World Order. Thus she does not have THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE of THAT WHICH MUST BE KNOWN BY THOSE WHO ASCEND THE THRONE OF DESTINY.”

[Right-wing Librarian]

Thanks, Dick Cheney, for outing yourself. Go line up with Karl Rove and other like-minded TYRANTS, on the “Right” or “Left”.

I used to be fooled by the likes of the Dick Cheney’s of the political world. Now I realize it’s not about right or left. It’s about tyranny or liberty. Dems and Pubs are the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine, both tyrants.

Sarah Palin represents LIBERTY, the opposite of you.

God Bless Sarah Palin!!!!

[Carl LaFong]

Name calling and insults .
That always wins friends and influences people.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

What’s your point Dick? Pick Jeb Bush?

That's my take. Or DreamAct, Muslim-loving Rubio with his many years in the Senate. Chickenhawk Cheney should be remembered only for hanging Scooter Libby out to dry.

[Paladin2]

Biden's no executive either.

That being said, Cheney did a generally great job helping Bush run the gov't. Much better than most VPs.

[cripplecreek]

I’m not one of Sarah Palin’s biggest fans but she’s the only reason I was able to choke back my bile and vote for McCain.

[pallis]

Let’s straighten this mess up, so we can understand it. The reason Sarah was a mistake as the VP pick is because she should have been the presidential candidate, and McCain should have retired due to incompetence and excessive sanctimoniousness. ...All of McCain’s little stooges who launched the attacks on Sarah should find jobs in women’s clothing goods, or someplace where queers are comfortable.

[nhwingut]

Project much?

I know. Because you didn't use a cute little flashing 'Hate Cheney' animated script like some immature tool.

[mkjessup]

Name calling and insults .
That always wins friends and influences people.

Oh you ain't seen nothin' yet, the newly arrived Cheney-haters haven't even had the afterbirth of their arrival rinsed off of them, and they're slinging every insult known to man at our previous Vice President who was formerly held in the highest esteem until he had the temerity to utter less than the purest praise and adoration for Sarah Palin.

Ye gawds, he expressed doubt about her being selected as McStain's running mate.

CRUCIFY HIM! GIVE US BARABBAS BIDEN!!!!

Usually I would have to pay a cover charge for this kind of entertainment, lol

[RichInOC]

Yeah, I insult Republicans that I’ve met and know and like all the time. Doesn’t everybody?

Dear Dick: The Eleventh Commandment. It exists. Barely. Learn it. Love it. Live it.

[Happy Rain]

One things for sure—Cheney dissing Palin has already made him the darling of the MSM.

But your point about needing someone who can confront the humongous fed is on target and that is where a “businessman” is needed and I hope Mitt can be a capitalist in chief instead of a RINO retread from Taxechussets.

After winning and during his first official briefing as president, I hope Mitt Romney will jump up and holler to Holy Heaven in appalled astonishment:

“MY GOD!!! THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON HERE ALL THIS TIME!?!? FIRE TWENTY PERCENT OF THE ADMINISTRATION RIGHT NOW AND BRING ME EVERY DEPARTMENT CHIEF—OH, AND TELL THEM TO BRING A BASKET TO TAKE THEIR HEADS BACK HOME WITH!!!”

A

[Gaffer]

If he means that picking McCain to be the nominee was the cataclysmic mistake who happened to pick Palin, I can buy that mistake. I believe the Republican nomination was stolen in Virginia (or was it W. Virginia) when the Huckster and the madman McCain pulled a fast one with the delegates. There was no honest way he could have won the nomination otherwise. Some also say Romney got there the same way.

[mkjessup]

Project much?
I know. Because you didn't use a cute little flashing 'Hate Cheney' animated script like some immature tool.

Hit a raw nerve did I? Now man up and either admit that you HATE Dick Cheney, or explain the hateful comments you have made about him in this thread and how you do NOT hate him?

Maybe you just have trouble dealing with simple HTML code that makes characters flash at you? LOL