Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin Was A ‘Mistake’

[rightwinger]

Picking Cheney was a mistake

By the end of his presidency, even Bush knew it. Bullied into invading Iraq, deemphasizing anti terror before 9-11, botched energy program, advocating torture, ignoring an economic collapse, opposing TARP.....all Cheneys doing

 

[Stephanie]

You have to love it...One day they want Cheney hung for war crimes along with Bush, then the next they swoon all over his words of some perceived "put down" of Sarah Palin.

again, PALIN had more qualifications then OBAMA...she was a mayor then a governor..

Obama= a community agitator, a lowly STATE Senator of a corrupted government, Illinois and a damn JUNIOR SENATOR of less than two years..

then they say Palin wasn't ready but we are to believe that OBAMA WAS...

 

[Sarah G]

So glad Cheney finally has a clue 4 years later..

The idiot.

 

[rightwinger]

You have to love it...One day they want Cheney hung for war crimes along with Bush, then the next they swoon all over his words of some perceived "put down" of Sarah Palin.

again, PALIN had more qualifications then OBAMA...she was a mayor then a governor..

Obama= a community agitator, a lowly STATE Senator of a corrupted government, Illinois and a damn JUNIOR SENATOR of less than two years..

then they say Palin wasn't ready but we are to believe that OBAMA WAS...

Mitt Romney is not as qualified as Obama was in 2008

 

[Stephanie]

You have to love it...One day they want Cheney hung for war crimes along with Bush, then the next they swoon all over his words of some perceived "put down" of Sarah Palin.

again, PALIN had more qualifications then OBAMA...she was a mayor then a governor..

Obama= a community agitator, a lowly STATE Senator of a corrupted government, Illinois and a damn JUNIOR SENATOR of less than two years..

then they say Palin wasn't ready but we are to believe that OBAMA WAS...

Mitt Romney is not as qualified as Obama was in 2008

LOL, Obama is qualified to run on 8.2% unemployment, credit rating downgraded, 5 trillion more in dept?
hell yeah, obama is showing his qualifications four years later

 

[there4eyeM]

A war criminal fesses up to the obvious. So?

In a just world, he would have been hanged, yes (according to the precedents of Nuremberg), along with his henchmen.

Poor Sarah Palin is so removed from the real that she doesn't even know how much of a joke she is.

Again, out with both parties.

 

[Stephanie]

right, palin was such a joke she was elected Governor beating out the Republican good ole boy Governor with a higher percentage 80% approval. than Obama was for President..
but whatever..you all don't focus on the jokes we have as president and vice President.

 

[rightwinger]

You have to love it...One day they want Cheney hung for war crimes along with Bush, then the next they swoon all over his words of some perceived "put down" of Sarah Palin.

again, PALIN had more qualifications then OBAMA...she was a mayor then a governor..

Obama= a community agitator, a lowly STATE Senator of a corrupted government, Illinois and a damn JUNIOR SENATOR of less than two years..

then they say Palin wasn't ready but we are to believe that OBAMA WAS...

Mitt Romney is not as qualified as Obama was in 2008

LOL, Obama is qualified to run on 8.2% unemployment, credit rating downgraded, 5 trillion more in dept?
hell yeah, obama is showing his qualifications four years later

Obama has dropped unemployment 2%...remember how it raised 4% under Bush?

Tea Tards trashed our credit rating and are still too stupid to know better.

Bush was given a 4% unemployment rate and left an 8% unemployment rate
Bush was given a stock market at 10750 and left a market at 8150
Bush was given rising employment numbers and left losing 700,000 jobs a month
Bush was given a Budget surplus and left a trillion dollar budget deficit
Bush was given a nation at peace and left us with two wars

And Romney wants to return to the policies of Bush

 

[Stephanie]

Mitt Romney is not as qualified as Obama was in 2008

LOL, Obama is qualified to run on 8.2% unemployment, credit rating downgraded, 5 trillion more in dept?
hell yeah, obama is showing his qualifications four years later

Obama has dropped unemployment 2%...remember how it raised 4% under Bush?

Tea Tards trashed our credit rating and are still too stupid to know better.

Bush was given a 4% unemployment rate and left an 8% unemployment rate
Bush was given a stock market at 10750 and left a market at 8150
Bush was given rising employment numbers and left losing 700,000 jobs a month
Bush was given a Budget surplus and left a trillion dollar budget deficit
Bush was given a nation at peace and left us with two wars

And Romney wants to return to the policies of Bush

still running against Bush I see...not going to work this time...this is all OBama's record NOW

 

[Liability]

Picking Cheney was a mistake

By the end of his presidency, even Bush knew it. Bullied into invading Iraq, deemphasizing anti terror before 9-11, botched energy program, advocating torture, ignoring an economic collapse, opposing TARP.....all Cheneys doing

Nonsense.

Picking Cheney was perhaps one of the best decisions made by W.

And there's not a shred of evidence to support your bullshit speculation that W ever got bullied into anything. Making shit up on the fly, as you tend to do so often, is not the same thing as evidence.

The balance of your post is equally merit-less and fictional.

 

[Synthaholic]

"Thanks for keeping me in the news, my leftist pals! The bank account thanks you too!" - Sarah Palin

Interestingly enough, it's FAUX Nooze that pays her, not CNN or MSNBC.

Wanna explain again how the left keeps bringing her money?

They feel AND fear our power!

 

[Synthaholic]

"Thanks for keeping me in the news, my leftist pals! The bank account thanks you too!" - Sarah Palin

Interestingly enough, it's FAUX Nooze that pays her, not CNN or MSNBC.

Wanna explain again how the left keeps bringing her money?

Because the more that libtards like you insult and demean her, the more that conservatives buy her books and appear at her rallies. Libtard attacks on her are money in the bank for Sarah.

Of course I doubt you can wrap your brain around that, but here you go anyway.

So, Conservatives are easily manipulated, and respond like Pavlov's Dog to the power of Liberals?

I'll buy that!

 

[Synthaholic]

i've always marveled at the ignorance that would make someone support a politician simply for based on the amusement value of the level that politician repels normal people.

Based on WHAT evidence? That SNL did parodies of her?

You do know that she never said she could see Russia from her front porch, right?

And its her fault that Romney people set her up for an ambush in the Couric interview, too, right?

And if you think that her fans support her because she repels the anti-normal left then you really dont have the analytical skills to understand the explanation I would give you, so I wont bother.

Now that I have disagreed with you, go ahead and neg me. Thats how libs do it right? lol

The libtard repulsion is far from the only reason that Palins fans like her.

How did Couric "ambush" Palin?

This should be good!

 

[Synthaholic]

Here is the New York Times covering a recent Palin speech:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/us/10iht-currents10.html

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Let us begin by confessing that, if Sarah Palin surfaced to say something intelligent and wise and fresh about the present American condition, many of us would fail to hear it.

That is not how we’re primed to see Ms. Palin. A pugnacious Tea Partyer? Sure. A woman of the people? Yup. A Mama Grizzly? You betcha.

But something curious happened when Ms. Palin strode onto the stage last weekend at a Tea Party event in Indianola, Iowa. Along with her familiar and predictable swipes at President Barack Obama and the “far left,” she delivered a devastating indictment of the entire U.S. political establishment — left, right and center — and pointed toward a way of transcending the presently unbridgeable political divide.

The next day, the “lamestream” media, as she calls it, played into her fantasy of it by ignoring the ideas she unfurled and dwelling almost entirely on the will-she-won’t-she question of her presidential ambitions.

So here is something I never thought I would write: a column about Sarah Palin’s ideas.

There was plenty of the usual Palin schtick — words that make clear that she is not speaking to everyone but to a particular strain of American: “The working men and women of this country, you got up off your couch, you came down from the deer stand, you came out of the duck blind, you got off the John Deere, and we took to the streets, and we took to the town halls, and we ended up at the ballot box.”

But when her throat was cleared at last, Ms. Palin had something considerably more substantive to say.

She made three interlocking points. First, that the United States is now governed by a “permanent political class,” drawn from both parties, that is increasingly cut off from the concerns of regular people. Second, that these Republicans and Democrats have allied with big business to mutual advantage to create what she called “corporate crony capitalism.” Third, that the real political divide in the United States may no longer be between friends and foes of Big Government, but between friends and foes of vast, remote, unaccountable institutions (both public and private).

In supporting her first point, about the permanent political class, she attacked both parties’ tendency to talk of spending cuts while spending more and more; to stoke public anxiety about a credit downgrade, but take a vacation anyway; to arrive in Washington of modest means and then somehow ride the gravy train to fabulous wealth. She observed that 7 of the 10 wealthiest counties in the United States happen to be suburbs of the nation’s capital.

Her second point, about money in politics, helped to explain the first. The permanent class stays in power because it positions itself between two deep troughs: the money spent by the government and the money spent by big companies to secure decisions from government that help them make more money.

“Do you want to know why nothing ever really gets done?” she said, referring to politicians. “It’s because there’s nothing in it for them. They’ve got a lot of mouths to feed — a lot of corporate lobbyists and a lot of special interests that are counting on them to keep the good times and the money rolling along.”

Because her party has agitated for the wholesale deregulation of money in politics and the unshackling of lobbyists, these will be heard in some quarters as sacrilegious words.

Ms. Palin’s third point was more striking still: in contrast to the sweeping paeans to capitalism and the free market delivered by the Republican presidential candidates whose ranks she has yet to join, she sought to make a distinction between good capitalists and bad ones. The good ones, in her telling, are those small businesses that take risks and sink and swim in the churning market; the bad ones are well-connected megacorporations that live off bailouts, dodge taxes and profit terrifically while creating no jobs.

Strangely, she was saying things that liberals might like, if not for Ms. Palin’s having said them.

“This is not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk,” she said of the crony variety. She added: “It’s the collusion of big government and big business and big finance to the detriment of all the rest — to the little guys. It’s a slap in the face to our small business owners — the true entrepreneurs, the job creators accounting for 70 percent of the jobs in America.”

Is there a hint of a political breakthrough hiding in there?

No, there will never be a breakthrough between the populist left and the populist right because so many on both sides are so conditioned to see the other as complete lunatics and embiciles that they can only understand the other in the context of that stupidity and wackoism.

And so the people stay divided and impotent as the corporate lobbyists run DC and rape the American people.

Palin was a threat to that system and so Tweedle Dee from the left savaged her in ridiculous attacks and snide humor, giving the leftwing rank and file 'reasons' to dislike her, dismiss her, but most importantly to ignore anything she had to say.

And it worked beautifully, for them.

Dick Cheney is part of the crony capitalism that runs DC and this country through the power that comes from DC.

Of course he thinks Palin a bad pick as she was a threat to the system that feeds Cheney and his entourage.

Anand Giridharadas is an American writer and newspaper columnist. He also serves as an analyst for CNN and CBC Radio. Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio Giridharadas grew up in Cleveland, Paris and Maryland.

Not a news story by NYTimes reporters. FAIL.

 

[Synthaholic]

I personally think that McCain gets too much grief over picking Palin, and a lot of the judgments about Palin aren't based on what we knew in 2008, but what she's done since in her "reality TV" mode. Yes, let's concede the point, we really dodged a bullet putting someone that petty and dumb a heartbeat away from the presidency.

However, the People saying "I told you so" really said no such things in 2008. At the time, Palin looked like a pretty good pick. She got the conservative base excited, she had a good record as a reformer, she was attractive and likable.

McCain's real problems were that his own party really didn't want him, but the alternatives were worse, and the economic and military situations had drained any popularity the GOP had.

McCain's main problem was a vow to continue the failed policies of Bush.

That's why he got the nicknames 'McBush' and 'McSame'.

Picking Poor Sarah was just the final straw and made people seriously question his judgement.

 

[Synthaholic]

Well, sounds like ole Dick ain't totally senile...yet...

Fascinating how that works in la la land. Dick Cheney is a lying republican war monger unless he says something you like and then all of a sudden he's right on.

but of course..
like Obama picking Biden has been a huge win for him...
how scary to think he could step in as President...

Biden is more qualified, and more knowledgeable, than McCain, Palin or Obama.

 

[Synthaholic]

no he's a smart guy, I disagree with him on this.....NEXT!

You believe Poor Sarah was prepared to be President Of The United States?

she was just as prepared as the community organizer junior senator you all put upon us as President

I thought this was a conservative country, and outnumbered Liberals?

Yet you couldn't even nominate a conservative?

Face it: you are a small minority.

 

[Synthaholic]

You have to love it...One day they want Cheney hung for war crimes along with Bush, then the next they swoon all over his words of some perceived "put down" of Sarah Palin.

again, PALIN had more qualifications then OBAMA...she was a mayor then a governor..

Obama= a community agitator, a lowly STATE Senator of a corrupted government, Illinois and a damn JUNIOR SENATOR of less than two years..

then they say Palin wasn't ready but we are to believe that OBAMA WAS...

A broken clock is right twice a day.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

I'm not a Palin fan, but I'd take her over Obama/Biden any day. When you look at it like that, it puts the "mistake" in perspective.

 

[bodecea]

You have to love it...One day they want Cheney hung for war crimes along with Bush, then the next they swoon all over his words of some perceived "put down" of Sarah Palin.

again, PALIN had more qualifications then OBAMA...she was a mayor then a governor..

Obama= a community agitator, a lowly STATE Senator of a corrupted government, Illinois and a damn JUNIOR SENATOR of less than two years..

then they say Palin wasn't ready but we are to believe that OBAMA WAS...

Thank you for giving an excellent example of the simplistic two-dimensional thinking of today's conservative. In your simplistic mind....one must be for Cheney all the way or not at all...there is no "sometimes yes, sometimes no"....it's your way of displaying a lack of higher level thinking skills.