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Cheney: Palin pick in ’08 “a mistake”
Hot Air ^ | JULY 29, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 07/29/2012 9:49:25 AM PDT by RobinMasters

As we wait for Mitt Romney to pick his running mate in the next few weeks, the last successful GOP running mate has been privately advising the current GOP nominee and the head of his VP search committee, Beth Myers. Cheney believes that the #2 slot has to be filled with someone ready to take over the top job on Day 1 — and that John McCain flunked that test in 2008. In an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Cheney called the selection of Sarah Palin “a mistake”:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; cheney; homosexualagenda; palin
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To: DesertRhino
When Cheney became eligible for the draft, during the Vietnam War, he applied for and received five draft deferments. In 1989, The Washington Post writer George C. Wilson interviewed Cheney as the next Secretary of Defense; when asked about his deferments, Cheney reportedly said, “I had other priorities in the ‘60s than military service.”

Arrogant turd

I never got the hero worship of the guy around here. It is no virtue or act of courage to become the most widely discredited and unpopular administration since Jimmy Carter. Thanks for nothing, guys.

81 posted on 07/29/2012 10:42:29 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: DesertRhino

When Cheney became eligible for the draft, during the Vietnam War, he applied for and received five draft deferments. In 1989, The Washington Post writer George C. Wilson interviewed Cheney as the next Secretary of Defense; when asked about his deferments, Cheney reportedly said, “I had other priorities in the ‘60s than military service.”

Arrogant turd
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Thats Wee Willie Mitty’s excuse too...


82 posted on 07/29/2012 10:42:32 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Happy Rain

“Why did Cheney personally attack Palin”

Good question. My first thought was that it was beneath him. Maybe, though, it was a subtle non-recommendation of one or more of Romney’s VP possibilities.


83 posted on 07/29/2012 10:43:36 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Tennessee Nana
Obama sends his luv;)
84 posted on 07/29/2012 10:44:43 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Obamacare like all Marxist fails, outlaws redress before creating it's demand.")
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To: uncbob

No, i do not think they would accept it. “had more important things to do”. Was his reason for scrambling for 5 deferrments, only the last of which did he have a kid.

But this puts him in good company, Mitt sat out the war in France as a missionary.
Screw the GOPe. That Chickenhawk label never fit so well.
Cheney is a classic Chickenhawk. If they think the way to win the election is to give the finger to Sarah, they lost me.

Just as i was starting to acccept that maybe id hold my nose and do it.


85 posted on 07/29/2012 10:44:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Uncle Slayton
And that mistake has been repeated in 2012 as Sarah Palin will be be at the top of the GOP Ticket.

That seems to be her mistake and yet you don't criticize her for not even entering the race.

86 posted on 07/29/2012 10:45:10 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Pontius Pilate 'voters' are arrogant, delusional, lilly-livered collaborators.)
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To: RobinMasters
Sure Dick, why not have Romney pick a similar boring, white bread, milktoast, RINO wuss, like himself and chase away the few members of the stupid party who are still reluctantly supporting him?

Makes a whole lot of sense to me. /sarc

87 posted on 07/29/2012 10:45:22 AM PDT by neveralib
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To: Sea Parrot

“Methinks Dick got a lefty heart transplant.”

It wasn’t a transplant, it was an implant. He didn’t have one before.

Nothing like finding a queer in the family to make you do a hard left turn.


88 posted on 07/29/2012 10:46:27 AM PDT by beelzepug ("Blind obedience to arbitrary rules is a sign of mental illness")
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To: RobinMasters

Sarah Palin is sitting on between 18 and 20 years executive experience. This is more than almost any other President we have ever had.
Palin’s record includes a term on the Wasilla Council, two terms as Wasilla, AK Mayor, a stint as Chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and gas Conservation Commission (which she left to almost single-handily take down the corrupt GOP Establishment in Alaska). She served as president of the Alaska mayors association and as chairman of the Republican governors. As governor she accomplished more in two years than most do in eight years. Alaska has the largest national guard and they are always on active duty with the governor briefed daily.
The Governorship of Alaska, as defined by the Alaska state Constitution, is the most powerful in the nation. This has left Sarah Palin uniquely qualified to go from being the most powerful Governor in the nation to being the most powerful national leader in the world.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it...DICK!


89 posted on 07/29/2012 10:46:35 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Maybe the horse (RNC) will learn to sing)
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To: cymbeline
Regardless, the Left is so publicly enjoying Cheney's stupidy and the conservatives are so seriously outraged he will have to backpedal and soon.

Bet Romney has writers working right now on Dick Cheney's “heartfelt” apology to Sarah Palin that he will deliver before Rush Limbaugh is on the air tomorrow.

90 posted on 07/29/2012 10:50:12 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Obamacare like all Marxist fails, outlaws redress before creating it's demand.")
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To: RobinMasters

Sorry Dick, but Palin is the only reason McCain did as well as he did.


91 posted on 07/29/2012 10:50:21 AM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: muawiyah

While an induction medical may have caught something, he didn’t even try. And i don’t even fault guys who did anything they could to avoid the draft.

What i despise are the ones who do that, and THEN try to act like a national security hawk. I have more respect for someone who went to Canada than i do him. At least the hippy in Canada didn’t come back and claim to be a foreign policy tough guy. He is another long term political hack from the Nixon/Ford era. Like Mclame. Like all the Bush clan.


92 posted on 07/29/2012 10:53:00 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: newzjunkey

It was very much was a mistake for Gov. Palin to not have entered the race, but you must consider that she was and has been very busy with her Editorial Work at Fox News, her responsibilities with her reality show, not to mention Bristol’s competing on Dancing with the Stars.


93 posted on 07/29/2012 10:53:39 AM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I didn’t vote for either McVain or Palin. I voted against the Kenyan obomo.

Sure, Palin wasn’t ready to serve as POTUS on Day One but she was just as qualified, if not more so, than the imposter we now have in the White House.


94 posted on 07/29/2012 10:53:45 AM PDT by citizen (It's no longer Obamacare. It's Robertscare now. He wanted it, he bought it, he owns it.nn)
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To: RobinMasters

Sorry Dick, but your a dick for saying that.


95 posted on 07/29/2012 10:54:00 AM PDT by vortigern
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To: Tennessee Nana

“I had other priorities in the ‘60s than military service.”

Yeah, me, too. But guess what?


96 posted on 07/29/2012 10:56:57 AM PDT by beelzepug ("Blind obedience to arbitrary rules is a sign of mental illness")
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To: DesertRhino; All
I'm amazed at how many people are putting their personal feelings about Palin over the critical importance of winning in November.

It's pathetic. There, I said it.

She didn't run for the nomination, polling universally shows she is a liability with the general electorate.

In 2012, she has made it her job to work on down-ballot races and that's precisely where she's needed most.

She gets it, why can't you all?

97 posted on 07/29/2012 10:59:04 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Pontius Pilate 'voters' are arrogant, delusional, lilly-livered collaborators.)
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To: RobinMasters

No Mr. Cheney, McCain was the friggin mistake NOT Sarah!


98 posted on 07/29/2012 11:00:06 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: CrosscutSaw

Bush/Cheney was a big mistake.


Oh, yeah....

Gore/Lieberman would have been just wonderful.


99 posted on 07/29/2012 11:01:17 AM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: newzjunkey

I’ve about reached the point where I have nothing but scorn for the “general electorate”. A pack of dolts, nothing more.


100 posted on 07/29/2012 11:04:55 AM PDT by beelzepug ("Blind obedience to arbitrary rules is a sign of mental illness")
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