Cheney walks back remark about Palin pick being ‘a mistake'

Washington Post ^ | August 6, 2012

[Bigtigermike]

Former vice president Dick Cheney on Monday backed off his comment that it was “a mistake” for the GOP to pick Sarah Palin as its vice presidential nominee, suggesting the comment was more about the VP process than about Palin herself.

“It wasn’t aimed so much at governor Palin as it was against the basic process that (John) McCain used, “ Cheney told Fox News’s Sean Hannity in an interview airing Monday night. “My point basically dealt with the process in terms of that basic requirement: Is this person prepared to step in to be President of the United States when they’re picked? And it was my judgment — I was asked if I thought the McCain process in ‘08 had been well done or was it a mistake, and I said I thought it was a mistake.”

[Shugee]

Gotta feel sorry for Dick Cheny. The TeaParty made him irrelevant.

[Wuli]

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”.

[Mach9]

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.

[House Atreides]

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.

[turn_to]

How could a comment about Sarah Palin effect the November election? Do you mean that she will not be picked as VP because of what Cheney said?

[Covenantor]

As far as choosing a running mate is concerned, perhaps the biggest mistake in our country's history was Ronald Reagan's choice of George Bush to be his running mate. I was on hand when Reagan announced his choice in Detroit.

Although wild cheering drowned out the rest of Reagan's speech, I was not among those cheering. I worried that if Reagan won and Bush succeeded him, Bush would try to undo whatever Reagan accomplished--and he did.

Same here. After the bitter primary with that POS bush with his "voodoo economics" attack, it was clear that Pres. Reagan had placed a backstabbing viper in the VP spot. The Bush clan is no better than the Kennedys. And Poppy Bush being back slapping buddies with Clinton gets me to hurling. Fool doesn't know WJC's LHAO.

[Iron Munro]

Hey Dick. Let us not forget that all that “experience” you, Rove and Bush brought to the table did not end well.

Amateurs who became the founders of our nation wrote the Declaration of Independence, successfully fought a brutal war to gain their Independence, devised a republican system of government for a free self-governing people, wrote a constitution that is the oldest still in use in the world, and established an economic system that became the envy of the world.

"Experienced Professionals" in the form of Big Government, One-World, Nanny Staters have just about destroyed what the founders built and bequeathed to us. And they have now brought the nation to the brink of destruction.

I know which group has earned my respect.

[bgill]

Looks like Cheney just got blasted in the face this time around.

[AFreeBird]

And Dick wins “The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” award.

[JPG]

His new heart must have come from a lib.

[Lady Lucky]

*Sigh*. How did Newt not win the GOP nomination?

By standing there virtually speechless, while Romney repeated "resigned in disgrace" with impunity. Gingrich lost the nomination in that nolo contendere moment. I will never understand why he didn't hammer Romney through the floor.

[DrewsMum]

How did Cruz do that?

[the invisib1e hand]

Only the most deluded would find that outcome not proof positive of a "mistake" in process.

hero worship does that.

[Biblebelter]

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.

[Bratch]

McCain explains Palin vetting

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.

[Nik Naym]

Too little too late, Dickie.

And dare I say it even sounds a bit weasel like.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Cool Pic.Did you know that Dan Rowen (stage name) was an army airforce pilot in the south pacific during ww2?He flew P-40s in the 49th fighter group until he was injured in a crash and returned stateside.