Cheney: Palin VP comments were about "process"
Former Vice President Dick Cheney.
"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, according to the Washington Post. "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."
What Cheney said last weekend, in an interview on ABC's "This Week," was not actually much different from his comments Monday night: He argued that "The test to get on that small list has to be, 'Is this person capable of being president of the United States?" and that Palin did not meet it.
"I like Governor Palin. I've met her. I know her," he said at the time. "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."
In the wake of some criticism - including from his daughter Liz Cheney - the former vice president is reiterating that he did not mean the comments as a personal attack on Palin.
"[The comments were not] meant so much as a criticism of Governor Palin as it is that I just thought it was not -- the process didn't meet the standards I would like to see our candidate pursue when they pick a -- a running mate," he told Hannity.
Palin responded to Cheney's initial comments last week, serving the former VP something of a backhanded compliment, and contending that he must have bought into a "false narrative" propagated by the "lamestream media."
"Seeing as how Dick -- excuse me, Vice President Cheney -- never misfires, then evidently he's quite convinced that what he had evidently read about me by the lamestream media, having been written, what I believe is a false narrative over the last four years," she said Tuesday night on Fox News. "Evidently Dick Cheney believed that stuff, and that's a shame."
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This is what I think of Obama and Biden but I don't have to worry! I'll be rid of them in January when Mitt Romney is sworn in as president!
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You mean to say you'll VOTE for Romney? You obviously aren't a Chrisitan or are totally lacking in principles if you vote for a man that belongs to a CULT that Christians have been denouncing for well over a 100 years.
It's just as I've always said! Your ID shouldn't be stupa5! It should just be stupid because it describes you better!
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After spending a great deal of time telling EVERYONE that you're a Christian and you act like this....... P.S. Sarah STILL hasn't been invited to the convention and the list of speakers seems to be filling up quickly.
I only give as good as I get! My mother taught me to defend myself and that's all I do. Also just because Palin hasn't received her invitation yet doesn't mean she won't receive one!
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So you don't follow the teachings of the Bible, but the teachings of your mother. So much for being a Christian. LMAO
She's not an embarrassment to this woman and there are MANY of us in the country who don't think she's an embarrassment!
Your the embarrassement to the USA let this bimbo go JV or go find a therapist that can help you end your attachment & addiction to the moose lady!
Try a the 12 step program "PA" palin anonymous it has worked for others with your similar condition!
My proof is the "neck and neck" ratings of the Obama and Romney campaigns. For months they have been in a horse race. One week Obama's ratings are a few points higher and the next week Romney's are.
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that new heart he has was clearly from a liberal who has a more objective view of the world ... and now he's just 'speaking from the heart' ... as they say.