Posted on 07/29/2012 7:38:46 AM PDT by 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."
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Renting a “large facility” five minute walk from the convention center is moving on?
What purpose did it serve, for Cheney to say what he did about Sarah Palin? I have admired Dick for all of his career, and his wife nearly as much, but they are now among the elite and they do not like these upstarts from across the tracks horning in.
Notice how close the Bush Clan has become with Bill Clinton, GHWB says he has a new son, and GWB claims Bill as his new brother. What the whole bunch have in common is a disdain for Sarah Palin and that includes both Clans 100%.
Eat you peas and shut up.</sarcasm>
Nassau County now looks mostly like NYC (except for the North Shore). We have been trying to hold Suffolk Country from Nassau's fate, but these cockroaches just seem to take over!
Long Island used to be a suburbia paradise (we moved from the Bronx to Huntington in 1980).
The school in which I vote in was closed down twice because of gang related shootings. That is why I vote before work. I figure the thugs are just getting home from a night out of drinking, drugging and shooting.
I made the mistake ONCE of going to vote after work. NEVER again!
That is what Ubama and the left wants though, a vast desperate population looking to them for guidance, to be molded nearer to their hearts desire.
As for Conservatives like your or Sarah, I will let FBI Agent Larry Grathwohl tell you about that.
It is silly to believe this woman is going to be running a presidential campaign at the same time that her husband ‘s reality show begins playing this fall.
Lots of vendors, PACs and authors have purchased boths and rented ballroms at the convention.
I am not putting her down for going there. But I am not reading a lot into it.
Amen to that. Please Lord, hear our prayers.
How did you do that? All I could get was "View Background" and it was gray.
Sarah sure did knock them out didn't she!?
Go Sarah!
Wow! :) Ever considered going into the modeling business?
To remind Romney that the call of history demands more than the politically expedient and spineless choice, one which he is all too likely to make.
There should have been conditions on Dick Cheney getting his heart transplant...Dick, Keep Your Damn Mouth Shut!
I right clicked and used the ‘View Image Info’ and had to sort through them to see which ones to download.. actually, it was more of a pain to upload to tinypic, since I have to type in a captcha code for each upload ;)
I know Rudy is not very popular here in FR; however, he took what was once a craphole of NYC and changed it into a thriving one.
Yes, Rudy is liberal socially, however, he is a conservative bulldog in both fiscal and national security.
EVERYONE in NYC HATED him as mayor. The FDNY, NYPD, ALL unions, because he said fu, enough is enough.
He made that dirty toilet bright and shiny.....then bloomterd took over, appointed himself “king of NYC” and un-did everything Rudy accomplished.
It’s a damn shame.
I believe a good number of us who didn’t want Rudy as POTUS thought he was an excellent mayor.
Whenever I post to FR I use http://www.draac.com/imagesize.html So I need Image Info.
Those Pics of Sarah are going on my Homepage.
The only thing that brings me comfort....because we ALL know, those who read their Bible and know what is going to happen, is the word of Jesus Christ.
“Remember, they hated me before they hated you”. I will gladly die (fighting not to, of course) with those words in my head.
We will win in the end, but there will be much suffering beforehand.
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