government perhaps or the federal government executive branch but i do think that sarah palin had an opportunity in the aftermath of all of that to go to school on the issues and to emerge as a is major spokesman on othe issues which a lot of her critics don t think she has done that key point of the vice presidential selection. it is more important for the future of that person and for the country s politics down the road. great perch to run from president. much more important in that regard than t is about the current election. okay. bill: bill clinton announced today going to have a major role at the democratic convention in north carolina. going to get a prime time address. obama people quite wisely are trying to associate themselves with the successful economically anyway economic administration. bush the younger is not even going to show up to tampa for the republicans.
i don t think it matters thatch anymore. cheney, was that a smart thing for him to say on. here is what i think about that. i think cheney in the sense he is right but i think what happened is that sarah palin actually helped mccain a lot as was suggested in the previous panel. she gave him a terrifically she helped mccain give him a great convention. huge hit at the convention. her speech was a big hit. she did well in the debate against biden. she kind of held her own. now later in the campaign the press got on her. she got character assassin natalled and people ended up at the end of the campaign not thinking very well of her. there is no chance in my opinion after september 15th when the market melted down that mccain was going to win the election and blaming any of it on sarah palin i think is faulty. i kind of agree with that but i don t think that sarah palin at that point in her career as cheney pointed out was ready to run the country. let s be honest about it. i don t
romney s business career? i think t was really good? what if he says that at the convention? i doubt he would go that far. he might say something that would cause obama campaign headaches but they are in so much trouble. bill: you think they have a checklist? this is what you can and can t say and they gave it to them and check it and notarize it and stamp it and say i won t say this stuff. i think they will try to control him as best can. cannot control the big dog. goes where he wants to go and says what he wants to say. bill: are you referring to me or bill clinton. in this particular instance i m referring to bill clinton as for this show i won t for a moment consider you are not the lead canine. this is pretty funny if you step back from it here you have a guy bill clinton who basically says to the president, hey, blank you. i want to say what i want because still mad at you for downgrading hillary in the primary marry in 2008. then he picks the president picks him a
president bush th younger. what about cheney s expertise of sarah palin. i think he was effectively right. he was not trying to den denigrate sarah palin. he had a lot of nice things. john mccain didn t lose because of sarah palin john mccain lost because he ran one of the most inseptember campaigns in modern history. i think that the vice president was trying to make a point about the kind of v.p. that romney should pick and i think he is too modest to put t this way. i think what he is trying to say is that romney needs a v.p. like dick cheney. he needs someone who is going to have instant credibility with conservatives and is going to be seen ann as one of their own but also somebody who has the gravitas and seen as ready to take on the presidency on the first day and first day in office o. the reason that s important is that obama is running a strategy of trashing mitt romney and trying to paint his ticket as unacceptable alternative. he will understands that millions of people h
them is by convincing them that the romney ticket with whoever he puts ton is unacceptable alternative. romney is going to pick somebody along dick cheney s advice energize conservatives cheney like gravitas and seen like somebody who could step into the presidency. who would that be? i think that the most likely pick is paul ryan. paul ryan. let me stop you there. you say you believe paul ryan will get it and we will get back to why. all right, mr. shaffer, dick cheney on sarah palin? i think t might be a little bit overblown. let s just remember at the time that he picked her there was widespread enthusiasm. she breathed new life into a campaign that was really rather pale in comparison to the sort of excitement that was surrounding president or then governor i m sorry senator obama s campaign. so i think that we need to remember that she did sort of an unprecedented role in terms of sparking voter turnout in the way that vice presidential