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In my view it doesn’t take a whole lot of insight to come to the conclusion that Sarah Palin’s responses to questions about the VP role are not gaffes or misstatements but a clear pattern and a concerted effort to describe a Cheney-like Vice President with outrageous extra-Constitutional authority.
It is also clear to me that someone with zero experience in this regard would never come up with these statements on her own, and that the same neoconservatives in charge of her $150k luxury makeover are also writing her talking points about the VP job description (well duh…).
The media, of course, is totally inept on this important — and potentially dangerous — issue that hits at the core of the Separation of Powers as designed by the country’s Founders.
My questions to fellow readers and any journalists out there:
1) Does she really substantively believe that this series of statements accurately reflects the job as it is outlined in the Constitution, and IF SO, to please elaborate on that.
2) Was it the McCain Campaign that prepped her to say these things (um, of course), and if so, WHO was it that did so?
3) I would ask these same questions of John McCain. As a Senator does he believe the VP is "in Charge of the Senate" and that the VP can "really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes"? And, in following up on that question with McCain, WHO in your campaign was responsible for prepping her on this issue?
Anyone want to take a stab?
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I think she does mean it. She is clearly of the Cheney School, and wants to extend executive power “by any means necessary.” That is why she hedged when asked if the VP is part of the Executive Branch.
Ok, I’ll buy that cobernicus. She authentically believes it… But predicated on what? Her own study of neoconservative philosophy and constitutional law? Or regurgitated talking points? Still many questions imho… McCain is, and has been, a neocon. It would be nice if the press confronted him on this since Palin really brought it to the surface and since McCain’s pushing the “I’m not Bush” meme. Palin = McCain = Bush = Cheney etc. It is so obvious. Why can’t the press make the connection (or why do they refuse to)?
Predicated on watching her elders play, and the assumption that:
- H.L. Mencken
ethan, I agree with you, she was salavating at the mouth with the prosepect of having more power then the president, cheney set that template and she planned on expanding his role
Yeah. She relishes it, she does. Power. As with Troopergate, etc. My only question is to what extent this specific issue re: VP was implanted and by whom. I don’t remember for certain, but I don’t recall whether Dick Cheney ever said anything about the “flexible” VP before he went ahead and ruined the country after (before?) 9/11. The fact that she is saying so on network interviews is astonishing to me. Dick is probably rolling over in his almost-grave. I can see him being like: “Ya don’t SAY that until after you’re elected, THEN when you are confronted all you need to say is: So?” She clearly has a lot to learn about The Dark Side.
while we’re at it can we start hitting them on the McCarthyesque use of Democrat for Democratic when referring to the party?