Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was a ‘Mistake’
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sen. John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his GOP running mate in 2008 was a “mistake” — and one that Mitt Romney can’t repeat.
In an interview segment broadcast Sunday — his first since receiving a heart transplant earlier this year — Cheney told ABC‘s Jonathan Karl he does not think McCain’s decision to pick the former Alaska governor was “well handled,” largely because she would not have been ready to be president of the United States.
Cheney, who headed up the running mate search for Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush before being named the latter’s No. 2, said there are always “two lists” in play during the vetting process: The “big list,” which is broad and full of non-serious contenders, and the “small list, the one that’s really under active consideration.”
“The test to get on that small list has to be, ‘Is this person capable of being president of the United States?’” Cheney said.
In Palin’s case, he said, the answer was no.
“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,” Cheney said.
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Comments (337)
marybethelizabeth
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:28pmWhen people are close to death they often abandon their posturing and finally tell the truth.
Report Post »Altair
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:34pmAnd are you going to start soon, hopefully ?
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:45pmIf the litmus test is “Is this person capable of being president of the United States?”, I‘d have to say we’re quite good at making some questionable choices when any review of history is considered (and not just with the VP).
Report Post »I suspect I won’t see a female president or even vice president in my lifetime. I suspect that won’t happen ’til past the midpoint of this century at the earliest. But keep trying, ladies.
marybethelizabeth
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:53pmNeither Clinton and Bachmann and qualified.
I believe Rosanne Barr is still running
Report Post »jeffsumm
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:21pmWhen people are close to death they often abandon their strength and go soft.
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:28pmSo sorry to hear that your close to death.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 2:54pmYou know why we likely won’t have a female president? Other females. You can argue against this as much as you like, but females LOVE to eat their own. I’m not saying Clinton or Bachman are “presidential material” (whatever the hell that means with a review of what has gone before), but I‘d argue they’re as serious and qualified as you might find from the left or right (especially when compared to those males who’ve served in my lifetime… the past 40 years).
Report Post »The image of Roseanne Barr “running” is enough to discount that clown. Let’s see… who might be comparable males from the left and right? Maybe Michael Moore as the loud, ill-informed leftist male and Rush Limbaugh as the loud, know-it-all status quo Republican. Thanks for that mental image. I don’t want to think of any of these mounds “running” (not that they shouldn’t get a little exercise). I mean, you’re not REALLY serious about this leftist gasbag are you? I suppose if you’re going for a certain level of androgyny….
Women will not vote for women, regardless of lip service or polling. In fact, they will be the first to rip female candidates to shreds. Funny how that works.
muffythetuffy
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 4:58pmIt does not matter but Palin was an American Citizen and had more experience that what is there now. We may find out that what is there now is really a KGB operative.
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 5:00pmWhen FDR choose Truman, people said FDR was crazy because Truman was a terrible choice.
Report Post »SupernaturalResearch.com
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 5:08pmI’ve been writing about this for years. The biggest VP mistake in history was GW picking Dick Cheney instead of POSITIONING someone who would actually run in 2008. At the time in 2000 it seemed Alan Keyes was the tea party favorite (grass roots). A credible VP with 8 years of experience would have had the best chance to win Obama…. An African American VP would have beat him hands down…..
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 5:15pmAMERICA?
Its not that people are unemployed and do not have jobs, the companies are gone and there are no companies to return too. Companies have been shut down and their buildings are being dismantled and plowed under. Homeland Security is hiring, it is hiring people to lean how to kill you this November to keep Obama in power. Obama has ordered 175 coal fired power plants shut down and plowed under 60 of them by the end of the year. Does that tell you anything?
Report Post »Kevin The Elder
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 6:29pm@ALTAIR. If there’s a Top 10 for greatest comments on the blaze, yours has to be in there. In fact, it’s got my vote for THE BEST. Thanks for a great laugh.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 6:33pm.
Report Post »The mistake was when the RNC picked John McCain.
Everything after that was doomed.
Actually, I was going to stay home, but I went to vote for Palin,
so much for that theory.
ModerationIsBest
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 7:52pm@THE GOOCH
I agree.
Our country has continually tried to demean women. Even the religion of the majority of Americans tells women that they shouldn’t be in places of leadership(especially regarding the church).
There are many religious people(both male and female) who say they will never follow the leadership of the women because it’s against their beliefs and the “role” of women.
It’s really sad.
Report Post »9635kari
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 7:56pmI love Cheney, but he is the definition of the establishment Republican, a party we conservatives have no real connection to.
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 8:24pmI too voted because Palin entered as the VP. I think she would have been infinitely better the the “president” we ended up with. People have bought into the trash that was put out by the MSM on Palin. I see someone who really has a good head on her shoulders.
Report Post »carlschulz
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 8:39pm@Secret Squirrel Remember, the RNC didn’t pick McCain, it was simply his “turn.” That’s the way politics is these days. Even the VP pick isn‘t about who’s best qualified, it’s about who will deliver votes. McCain is a moderate ass and his team knew it so Sara Palin was picked because she would deliver the conservative vote.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 9:28pm@marybethelizabeth: Have you been drinking again?
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:07pmI wonder if Cheney got up in a bad mood and just wanted to make enemies. This was a great way to lose a whole lot of goodwill a whole lot of people have had for him.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:48pmWe currently have 50 Governors, both Republicans and Democrats, who have to make tough decisions everyday. Sarah Palin should have been one of them. Instead she quit to make tens of thousands of dollars criticizing those politicans that stayed. One the day she quit she said she wanted to “change the world”. Since then she has done nothing but put money in her own pockets. I‘m not saying if she would or would not have made a good leader but she has done nothing of any quality since the day she quit the Governor’s job.
Report Post »XScramblerX
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:25amThe truth is, picking Dick Chaney as a hunting partner was a REALLY BAD MISTAKE!!
Report Post »Fact is that Sarah picked the wrong ticket to run on. I mean McCain, come on Dick! John McCain was the best you could do? And now your blaming Sarah? Get yourself a diaper change, and easy on the meds DICK! God ! I can’t believe the moronic things that politicians say, or whats worse, the fact that these morons are never challenged.
Jacktedp
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:43amSarah Palin was the only thing that kept McCain competitive. When Sarah Palin was brought on board, the enthusiasm immediately changed.
Where McCain had struggled to fill an arena, lines outside events featuring Palin seemed miles long.
Polls prove, that until McCain inexplicably stepped into the media’s “erratic” narrative by trotting off to DC to “save the economy,” Sarah Palin had given the ticket a very real chance to win.
McCain was the one who made the terrible decision to ‘suspend’ the campaign. The numbers dropped that day and never went back up.
McCain led in one of a dozen polls before the announcement and would go on to trail in every one of the 100+ polls taken and included in the RCP average following that move.
After the bailout vote, support for the Republican ticket collapsed.
In Pew’s exit poll in 2008, voters who said Palin was a factor in their vote went for McCain by a whopping 56-43 margin.
Sarah Palin energized the Party, and carried Senator McCain farther than he could have possibly gone without her.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 8:26amPalin was the only thing that put life into McLames campaign! BTW in retrospect “W” didn’t do such a bang up job, adding 5 trillion to the debt, abandoning free market principles to save the free market (what the hell ever THAT means).
Report Post »I‘m afraid ol’ Dick has a bad case of GOP establishment elitism. He probably doesn’t like the tea party movement, either.
sixtysix
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:13amThe mistake was picking McCain. There was no vice presidential nominee who could have saved him. Palin was a victime of both liberal and RINO elitists. Most citizens just believed what these pseudo sophisticates said. Whether Palin would have made a good vice president is a question we cannot answer. Certainly she was more qualified than the man who was elected president. At least she has a grasp on economics and business. Her foreign policy could not have been worse than that we have had for nearly four years. In fact, we don‘t have a foreign policy just as we don’t have a budget. I have to laugh when I hear about the budget committee when liberals have not passed a budget since the presidential election.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:52pmThe GOP giving us Sen. John McCain was the mistake. Nothing else matters when you start going down the wrong road.
Report Post »gbo
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:44pmPeople are likely to say anything, regardless of how close to death they are, although I think Cheney spoke the truth, as he perceived it. It was an egregious mistake to choose Palin – for the establishment Republicans, that is. For the rest of America, it was a reminder that a candidate doesn’t necessarily have to be a Party stooge to get on the ticket, or do the job. Whether or not Palin would have made a better President than Obama, Biden, or McCain is merely speculation now, but it definitely isn’t hard to imagine.
Report Post »I think real Americans are less concerned about a leader‘s physical appearance than they are about that leader’s character. We want leaders who are real, and we want leaders who are American enough to represent us, regardless of sex, race, or religion.
Clive
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:25pmmccain had principals, mccain was a well liked senator, and decorated war hero / POW.
romney dodged the draft, and has no principals. he was pro choice, pro gay marriage, and pro socialized medicine. robotic personality, and no one likes him.
The point is, if you think the GOP gave us a bad candidate with john mccain, wait until you see how romney performs this fall. yikes. I just hope the GOP has their act together for 2016.
Report Post »harryfillmore
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:50pmWOW Look mom one of the left wing wackos are back on line.
Report Post »Churchill
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:26pmI would take Palin over Cheney!!!
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 2:09pmAt this point, I would too.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 4:39pmThe only reason McCain got my vote was because Palin was on the ticket
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 5:07pmIt was McCain who was the mistake. If McCain had won nothing would be different now. McCain supports everything Obama is doing. Romney looks like McCain II. It may be better to reelect Obama and smash the USA into a million peaces so several new nations can emerge like happened in the USSR. Economically, culturally, socially, racially, and educationally America has passed away and is on the trash heap of history. Great nations are great because its people are grate. We have become a despicable and disgraceful people.
Report Post »jerseyflash
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 5:35pmI like your thinking CHURCHILL….I think Dick said something when he had his OLD HEART in his chest about “How great Sarah Palin was” right along with his daughter who LOVES SARAH…WHAT REALLY FLOOR’S ME…IS WHEN…THE CRAZIEEEE AND ZOMBIEEEE SAY THAT ” SHE WOULDN’T BE READY TO BE PRESIDENT”….MC RINO WAS GOING TO DIE OF SKIN CANCER…AND SARAH WOULD HAVE TO TAKE OVER IN LESS THEN A YEAR…REMEMBER WHEN THAT WAS SAID…funny thing…I can’t seem to remember ANYTHING said about GERALDINE FERRARO when her name was pulled from the hat…here is what you have TODAY assumming Ferraro was still alive…ONLY ONE OF THE THREE CAN BE POTUS “TODAY”
Report Post »(1) SARAH PALIN….(2) B.H.OBAMA….(3) GERALDINE FERRARO…I’m eeven going to give Urkel a 3 and half year head-start on the (2) women….go-head…pick-one ???????
Meyvn
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 9:28pmAs would I.
Report Post »BelowAverageJoe
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:36pmI have nothing but respect for Dick Cheney. I felt that he would have been a stronger president than W was. However, I think he spoke out of turn in this case and should have kept this opinion to himself. Sarah Palin has been vilified a million times over for no cause and he should know better than to pile on after the constant media battering he took for 8 years (Darth Vader, Halliburton, etc.).
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 11:14amRight on! McCain was the weight, Palin was the rocket…..no one was ready for the lame-stream-media at that time; they did a number on her like no other and still try to today! She is a force to be reckoned with. If she was a democrat everyone on the left would be slathering all over her! Don’t be fooled again, lest you are a fool!
Report Post »Guitar Master
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:23pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From THE REPORTGER
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Oh, by the way, Sarah Palin is a quitter. She was elected to be governor for 4 years and quit after two for her own selfish reasons. That says a lot about any person !!
Report Post »TomSawyer
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:30pmIt was costing the state of Alaska money to have the liberal dishonesty attack the governor. She was $500,000 in debt fighting the attack; then she quit and got a book deal that made her a millionaire. I would call that common sense.
Report Post »aleena
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:40pmThat is a total lie. She was being hounded by liberals like you. They were and still are trashing her family. She was deeply in debt and could not do her job. Your post says a lot about you and nothing about Sarah Palin.
Report Post »RANGER1965
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:49pmCommon Troll…
Move Along
Report Post »Jacktedp
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:42amSarah Palin resigned because she recognized the cost that the frivolous ethics complaints were having on her state , and she saw how much of her staff’s time and her own time were forced to deal with those issues.
Those frivolous lawsuits had already cost the state of AK close to $2 million; Sarah Palin had over $500,000 dollars in legal fees.
That entire campaign of BS lawsuits was meant to do nothing but hamstring the governor’s office and bankrupt Sarah Palin.
She saw that if she stayed on as Governor it would continue to cost the state millions of dollars in wasted time and resources to defend against false and maliciously ethics complaints and doom it to gridlock.
Sarah Palin knew that for the sake of her state, her country, her family, and her political voice, it would be best if she stepped aside from the governorship.
She promised to keep the frivolous anti-Palin law suits away from the Alaskan people and to be more effective on the stump ( supporting candidates , fundraising, etc)
Sarah Palin was truthful on both accounts!
For the past four years Sarah Palin has worked tirelessly to fight Obama’s policies and elect conservatives; she was #1 in the fight!
Report Post »She basically spearheaded the 2010 victory with her endorsements and rallies all over the country!
antibiggov
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:45pmI guess that makes obama a quitter. he quit the senate. I know it was after he won the election, buy why didn’t he finish his senate term before running?
Report Post »Guitar Master
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:22pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From THE REPORTER
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Does anyone in this world really care what this washed-up old fahrt thinks? Can anyone remember how he lied about WMD’s in Iraq? It’s high time we think on our own and forget about what people like this have to say. Their words are meaningless.
Report Post »Altair
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:34pmThe WMDs were transported to Syria, and you’ll probably be hearing about some of them in the near future.
Report Post »RANGER1965
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:48pmWow! another brilliant insight filled with irrefutable facts. And the logic! It is beyond compare. Who would dare to argue with an argument so profound it‘s almost poetic in it’s perfection.
Truly Guitar Master, a man of your dizzying intellect is wasted here on the Blaze. Such a national treasure as yourself is destined for FAR! greater things.
May I humbly suggest you apply to be an advisor for our current president.
RANGER
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 4:16pmGUITAR MASTER, I think that you are a little short sighted there. If you can remember back to the last year of the Clinton Administration, it was the Dems en mass talking about a potential strike on Sadam Hussein’s MWDs. Was it Clinton telling lies about these MWDs or the Governor of Texas? Actually, it was Iraq, and Hussein thumping their chests over their MWD programs. Hussein allowed the world, and the UN to believe that he had chemical MWDs which he did, and that his nuclear research was about to yield results. The dems believed the stories, then naturally turned on the Republicans in office when they did the very same thing. Politics actually does go back a little further than yesterday.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 6:01pmAltair
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:34pm
The WMDs were transported to Syria, and you’ll probably be hearing about some of them in the near future.
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Suuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrre they were……….
The Martians must have transported them there (LOL!)
Report Post »harryfillmore
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:48pmYou are talking about old news. Time to talk about what is going on in today’s world you wacko are you Obama. Does Michelle know your on line?
Report Post »vinnymac46
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:21pmThe problem was McCain was trying not to lose and Palin was doing her best to win!!! Big difference Mr. Chaney, oh and why oh why do you do interviews with the same network who bashes the crap out of you, tsk, tsk…must have had a high deductable on that heart transplant…bottom line a “no comment” would have done fine when asked that question about Palin.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:44pmTHAT’S IT !!! Brilliant .. where did he get that heart from?
MUST HAVING BEEN A BLEEDING HEART PROGRESSIVE!
Report Post »FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:20pmMcCain was the weak link on that ticket, not Sarah.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:33pmAgreed and the trouble started when Sarah started to attack Obama not just lie down like McSlain did.
Report Post »Dick Cheney, McSlain and the whole Ols Republicn guard need to be ousted out of Washington. They are corrupt, and have their own ideas about how things should run. They compromise, instead of holding to their principles, and to the words of the Constitution. They are indoctrinating the newest group of Congressmen that came in 2010. That’s why Congress has been so lame. These new guys have been listening to the old guys.
booger71
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:11pmI agree, vote the big government Republicans out of office.
Report Post »DIR
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 6:22pmPoor old Dick. Nancy Pelosi never met an old Dick she didn‘t think was her’s and was compelled to try and screw the America people with. Nancy suffer’s the heartbreak of Johnson envy. Then there is Dick Cheney and his comment. How do you figure Dick? Like others here, my perception is the weakest link on that ticket was McCain, not Sarah. Personally the way McCain ran his campaign, I got the feeling he was supporting Barry.
Report Post »brovet
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:20pmPalin was not the mistake, McCain was! He did not have the stomach to go after BO. McCain was trying to conduct an honorable campaign against a dishonorable Democrat machine. There was so much that could have been used against BO and McCain let it all slide. No mention of drug use, of his communist mentors, of his hidden transcript, ect. He even let BO dictate that he, McCain, could not use his middle name. Then he made a major mistake in not allowing Palin to be herself. She is a dynamic speaker and “go for the jugler” politician, but McCain put the brakes on her.
Lastly, Palin had more government experience that BO but the left leaning press attacked her without even worrying about the facts.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:17pm…
Report Post »Dick, you and Sarah are both hunters, but at least Sarah Palin has never shot her hunting partner in the face, like you did.
Lowgo1981
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 9:05pmAnd that is why he knew she wasnt ready to be prez. Because she hasnt shot her hunting partner in the face. She should give it a try!
Report Post »jimmohn
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 9:33pmWould you rather go hunting with Dick C. or for a ride with Kennedy?
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:16pmIf if if. If my aunt had testicles she would be my uncle if she weren’t my aunt
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:06pmIf she is a democrat, that wouldn’t prove anything.
Report Post »Lgbpop
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 7:42pmJudging by some of the replies I’ve seen you post, I’d believe your aunt had testicles and probably she was your sister too
Report Post »zipzap
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:15pmTwo comments:
First – How did Barack Obama make the list? He was clearly unqualified to be anything but rabble rouser and bar tender. You can thank the Brainlesstream media for him.
Second – The party elite were killing the GOP. It was on life support, with abosolutely no energy. Sarah Palin restored hope to conservatives and gave us 2010 as a result of an energized base. If you had some Bozo from the (ahem) astute members of the mossy stone society of blueblood Republicans, America as a free nation would already be lost to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their socialist buddy on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Report Post »antibiggov
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:51pmagree
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:14pm…
Report Post »Why was a man Dick’s age, given a heart transplant?
There are a lot of young people on the transplant waiting list, who have their whole lives ahead of them, to look forward to, if they could just get a heart transplant.
Since he’s a former VP, I suppose we taxpayers footed the bill for his transplant.
brovet
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:03pmYou’re kidding right? Chaney was on the list and took his turn, why shouldn’t he get one. He spent many years of stress serving his country which certainly contributed to the heart disease. You may not like him but your comment was totally insensitive!
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:55pmSick attitude LEAD ..
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:11pmMr. Cheney, you are wrong.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:09pmWho is Sarah Palin?. Sounds like a stripper name…LOL!
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 8:00pmWow what wit ..
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:08pmMaybe it was the other way around. Sarah Palin would have been better off without McCain.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:22pmThere you go!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:31pmImChristian….could not have said it better myself..my hat is of to you!
Report Post »daveycrokett
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 3:10pmI agree, Juan McCain could not energize the base and if Romney doesnt grow a pair he will suffer the same fate
Report Post »Toltepeceno
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:07pmI guess he wasn’t paying attention. Mccain was a mistake, his campaign was like watching paint peel. Palin was the only thing that brought any life at all into it at all. Mccain was dead in the water long before he picked her.
As a disabled veteran I respect mccain’s service and what he went through. He was a huge mistake as a presidential candidate though, the real race was between odumbo and shrillary.
Report Post »ricckky
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:07pmAnd the LIAR-N-CHIEF was qualified???????? Please give me a break–as much as I respect D.C. he is an establishment rhino that needs to shut up!!!!!–WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY!!! and he is not helping—-Sarah Palin has more political savvy in her little finger than The Liar will ever have. All Obama does is LIE!!!!!!!!–We need fresh new blood to turn our country around—NO MORE RINOS, NO MORE RINOS!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:15pmIf the convention nominates Sarah or Bachman, my vote would mean so much more than bad or badder.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:02pm…
Report Post »Dick Cheney, you old fool.
The only reason John McCain got as many votes as he did, was due to Sarah Palin.
Sarah breathed new life into John’s campaign.
I, and everyone I know, voted for Palin, not McCain.
Toltepeceno
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:09pmExactly right. If not for palin it would have been a huge landslide.
Report Post »Toltepeceno
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:14pmI left out landslide for the Iibtards.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 1:35pm@Toltepeceno, It was a huge landslide for the Democrats. President Obama won by 53% with a 70% voter turnout. To contrast, Ronald Reagan’s “Conservative Mandate” of 1980 was a bare 50% of the vote with a 50% turnout. His average voter was a middle aged, upper middle class White, Protestant, male, a voter type that hadn’t been that over-represented in decades.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 3:43pmDersertRose
Report Post »Many White Male Voters You’re refering to
Voted for Obama to prove they wern‘t Racist’s
They will be voting against him this time to
Prove they’re not Stupid.
Silversmith
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:02pmYeah and Barry’s experience was .. uh .. well — never mind.
Dick’s in the progressive tank.
Silversmith
Report Post »saranda
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:00pmSurely he did not just figure that out. SP still sends shivers down my spine every time I hear she has “commented” on something.
If she were a serious person she would have gone away and built on credentials and come back with fewer weaknesses. But instead she took the easy route with no accountability to anyone and spouts off the same uninformed nonsense. What a waste of God given talent she has proven to be. And now we have to endure her uneducated, unthinking daughter trying to stay in the media’s eye. Go back to school or get a real job.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:13pmYour post shows YOUR ignorance. How is BO working out, with ZERO experience, for the 40% black unemployment? How is the gaffe machine Biden working out with his extensive experience?
Your comments about Sarah’s experience are the lefts blah, blah, blah talking points, and as usual, they are wrong. Yes, let’s bring her daughter into the conversation, she‘s WORKING and I’m not paying for her food stamps, her unemployment checks, her disability check or her birth control pills. She’s speaking out on teen pregnancy, trying to inform young teens of the consequences of their actions, from her personal experience. What have you done lately?
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:34pmSaranda…I think it is funny if Sarah means nothing why does the left respond to everyone of her comments. It cracks me up what a thorn she must be in the sides of lefties!
Report Post »saranda
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 3:02pm@wantourcountryback – when did I or the article suggest on was qualified. Stay on point here if possible. Palin was not qualified and was too much of a polarizing figure to be electable.
As for what I have done, I prefer to give quietly as the Bible suggests I do. I sit on multiple charitable boards. I raise money amongst my friends and associates for causes near to my heart and/or community. I write large checks annually to a foundation I believe in and i do not always receive tax receipts in my giving as that takes the fun out of being anonymous. I do not need to draw attention to my charity unlike too many who give on ly for what they receive back in publicity or accolades.
Young Palin is fair to comment on as she keeps herself in the public forum with her bizarre polls and comments on adult matters of which she disp,ays no understanding. Unfortunately McCain released the whole brood on us in his poor selection of sp.
I do not know but it is likely safe to say I have more in my 53 years than your entire family will give in its lifetime.
Report Post »demsaredumb
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:59amShe would have made a much better president than he would have. Only two years as a governor makes her much more experienced that BH Obummer was.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:58amAllowing the media to pick McCain as the presidential candidate was an even bigger mistake. Simple as that.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:10pmand now you will vote for Romney, does it make you feel cheap to be used like that?
soybomb315_II
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:12pmditto for 2012…deja vu all over again
some people will never learn
Report Post »Toltepeceno
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:15pmSteelhead Does it make you feel cheap to be used by moveon.org and the losers at the dumbocratic underachiever forum?
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:58amSarah Palin was the best thing going for the McPain for president campaign. MISTAKE??? McPain was the mistake.
Report Post »Mr. Cheney, thank you for your good service, but your judgement has been clouded by the blue blood republicrat estabishment.
Steelhead
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:57amCheney, I mean you Dick, is right. This coming from the guy that got us into two useless wars.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:06pmI believe the Congress had a lot to do with that too. Along with many of the Democrats, although they tried to back peddle much later. You know how Lurch said that he was for the war before he was against it. Prior to those wars When Clinton was still president, just how many of the Dems were quoted as saying that they were all for an attack on Iraq and Sadam Hussein because of their WMD programs? How quickly the likes of your HEAD choose to forget.
Report Post »Toltepeceno
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:13pmRJJinGadsden Expecting a Iibtard to be honest? Never happen.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:21pmDick the Cheney messed up and flubbed the first war with Iraq by not killing Saddam. Halliburton is Cheney’s legacy, war profits and all.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:55amYEAH, how dare McCain pick someone that hasnt been corrupted by the republican party!!!!
Rest assured, Mitt Romney will pick a moderate/progressive which will end all hopes of turning things around through the republican party
Report Post »antibiggov
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:09pmRomney is not my first choice and my thought is that it is time to go consrvative in the whole congress that will keep him in line and not get away with all the bs that obama is doing. obama gets away with things because the Senate and rhino/moderates in the house let him
Report Post »john koenig
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:55amSorry, Dick. Even you can be wrong from time to time. Palin was far readier and far more qualified than Barry Soetoro.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:02pmYep, and less communist to.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 12:04pmYep, Sarah would not be bowing to anyone but the American people. She believes in this country and her people and would not be in bed in her enemies. Sarah was a good choice, the only problem with her nomination was that she should have been running for President.
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