Hannity Exclusive: Dick Cheney on the New Era of Republicans and Why Obama Should be a One-Term President
Tonight in Sean Hannity’s interview with Dick Cheney, the former vice president spoke out about the 2012 election season. Cheney just held the biggest fundraiser in the history of Wyoming for the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney.Cheney recently announced that he won’t be attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Cheney told Hannity, “Once you’ve done all of that, to go back with no role – well what would I do, sit in the gallery and watch?”
Hannity said that people might still want to see him there, but Cheney responded, “Well they might. But it’s going to be a Mitt Romney show, it ought to be, he’s our nominee. He ought to be the focal point. And you know, I’m happy to do whatever I can to help but they don’t need to see me at the convention. I’m pretty well known at this stage of the game. And this is a new era if you will and a new set of office holders. It’s very important that we defeat Barack Obama. He’s been a terrible president and frankly, I fundamentally disagree with him on anything and I think Mitt Romney’s going to win.”
Regarding Romney’s handling of the campaign process, Cheney said, “I think he has, has probably a better perspective than most. I mean he’s sort of at the center of it. But if you’ve got some experience at it, which he clearly does — I mean he’s been through the presidential campaign process before, when he was a candidate for the nomination. And I find that when I’ve dealt with him — and I’ve talked with him some — well, especially when he was here — that he’s very well-grounded. He knows what he wants to do. He’s got a good sense of what his strategy ought to be. He’s not being affected, I don’t think, by a lot of the minutiae that goes with running for president.”
Romney is currently in choosing his running mate, and as someone who was vetted for the spot, Cheney described the process and said that there’s a big list and short list. On the big list, he said that people ask to be put on the list in order to help their campaigns at home. Then, there’s the short list consisting of three to five people who are under serious consideration. Cheney wouldn’t comment on specific contenders, but said, “You have got to be capable of standing in tomorrow and taking over as president of the United States. That’s the real requirement.”
Hannity mentioned Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and Rob Portman among some of those who are possibilities. He asked the former vice president if he’s confident that any of the top contenders meet the requirement he spoke about. Cheney answered, “I am generally confident of that. I don’t want to pick out any one particular individual. But I think of it that there’s a new generation of Republicans coming along, and a very attractive generation of Republicans.”
He continued, “The other thing I’d mention, too, is this is the first presidential level decision that — that a candidate, in this case, Governor Romney, will make, the first time the American people get to see him make a decision that has absolute and direct consequences for what his government is going to look like. And so it’s a real test.”
Cheney recently stirred up a bit of controversy when he said that selecting Sarah Palin as a running mate was a “mistake.” Tonight, he expanded on his comments, saying, “I like Governor Palin. I think she’s a very able and effective spokesman for the party, for conservative causes. She believes in a lot of the same things I believe in. … The question I was addressing when I was interviewed was the question of process and did I think, for example, that the McCain process that was used in 2008 met the standards in the way I described them. And my answer was no, I didn’t think it did. It wasn’t aimed so much at Governor Palin as it was against the basic process that McCain used.”
Part I:
Cheney said that he doesn’t believe President Obama was prepared for the job and added, “he served a couple of terms, undistinguished terms, in the Illinois state senate, missed a lot of votes, ran for the House of Representatives once and got beat and then ran for senator from Illinois … and then he disappeared for two years. I never heard anything of him while he was a member of the United States Senate and then all of a sudden he’s running for president.”
President Obama attributes blame to the Bush administration on certain problems, but Cheney was quick to point out that the president has had almost four years to deal with the issues we face as a nation and “he hasn’t dealt with them.”
Cheney said, “I think with respect to the economy, it’s the whole thing was captured in that statement the other day to small business, you know, if you’ve got a small business, you didn’t build it, somebody else did. I’ve got friends that, you know, that’s been their success story of their lives. It’s one of the great success stories of America, that we can do that sort of thing in the United States. And Barack Obama doesn’t appreciate it or understand it or have any sympathy whatsoever. He thinks everything that happens that’s good in the country comes from the government. And he’s just dead wrong.”
Part II:
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/08/06/hannity-exclusive-dick-cheney-on-the-new-era-of-republicans-and-why-obama-should-be-a-one-term-president/
http://nation.foxnews.com/dick-cheney/2012/08/06/cheney-launches-full-frontal-assault-barack-obama
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