Dick Cheney Says What We’re All Thinking: Picking Sarah Palin Was a Mistake

Heh..  Yeah..  Gawker:

Vice presidential expert Dick Cheney has offered his perspective on selecting a running mate to Mitt Romney and Beth Myers, who is heading Romney's search. While Cheney wouldn't divulge what he told the Republican candidate, he did offer one clear message: don't pick another Sarah Palin.



When asked by ABC News about John McCain's decision to pick Palin in 2008, Cheney was direct — "That one, I don't think was well handled."
To many, this seems like common sense, but few Republicans have been willing to publicly speak ill of Palin. McCain even said Sarah Palin was a better choice than Mitt Romney.


As Cheney explained, "The test to get on that small list has to be, 'Is this person capable of being president of the United States?'" Palin's lack of foreign policy knowledge and her limited experience were two major strikes against her during the 2008 election.


It's not personal, Cheney insisted.

I like Governor Palin. I've met her. I know her. She [is an] 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.

The interview will air tomorrow on ABC.

The Establishment and Neocons have spoken:  Much more real political experience, or no national Palin.  By running around the country jabbering without the benefit of political office only insures that she won't be ready for any higher office until her "I'd hit that" looks have faded and people actually have to listen to her!  So..  Probably no more national Palin.  Don't worry, though;  There's always Tina Fey!

Sarah Palin’s Chief Propagandist Turns On Her

From Gawker:

John Ziegler, a talk-radio host and filmmaker whose zeal in defending Sarah Palin's every move and utterance over the past two years zoomed past advocacy and into creepiness has now done what all stalkers do eventually: He's decided if he can't have her, no one can.
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..he's decided she can't be president and has written a lengthy tell-all-ish (tell some?) story in the Daily Caller arguing that she's going to destroy the Republican Party if she runs—which, he says, she will—and is surrounded by yes-men. He's also launched a site called "The Sarah Palin I Know" as a future vehicle for damaging information about her. Ziegler is the second high-profile denizen of Palinland to defect: Earlier this year long-time aide Frank Bailey wrote a tell-all based on thousands of e-mails with Palin that he'd kept.

Bailey's turnaround was instructive in the sense that an insider became disillusioned with Palin as he came to know more about her. Ziegler's is instructive in the sense that any time you see someone on television defending Palin, keep in mind that they're probably an attention-starved opportunist who just wants to feel important and will probably say whatever you want as long as you keep listening.  Also that Sarah Palin surrounds herself with horrible people, because she is one.