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Former GOP senator calls Palin a 'cocky wacko'

Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee was known for keeping a low-key profile on Capitol Hill, but the Republican -turned -Independent is making waves with his exceedingly blunt comments on newly-minted Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin:

She's a "cocky wacko," he told a Washington think tank earlier this week.

Chafee, the lone Senate Republican to vote against the Iraq war who endorsed Obama's White House bid earlier this year, told an audience at the New America Foundation in Washington Tuesday that Palin's selection has energized Obama backers.
"People were coming into my office, phone calls were flooding in, e-mails were coming in, 'I just sent money to Obama, I couldn't sleep last night' �?from the left. To see this cocky wacko up there," he said.

He also described McCain's candidacy as "lackluster�?and described the selection of Palin as a throwing "this firestorm, this tornado, into the whole presidential election."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

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{ I must say I couldn't agree more with former Senator Chafee's description of Gov Palin. States sometimes go a little weird and elect local hero's, celebrities, actors and even wrestlers to the Governor's office as in the case of Jesse Ventura in my birth state of Minnesota. However none of them have become President.....yet. Palin is a lightweight and not worthy of being Vice President and most certainly not worthy of being President. She's not a bad person so much as just being a very bad choice. McCain put his country in danger for thirty pieces of silver from the hard core Conservative base and committed the ultimate "sell out".

All he has done is cause us all to question his judgement and to wonder why this obsessed man wants to be President so bad?

Sarah Palin may rejuvenate the GOP as we head to the election in November but if they should be elected the American people will be confronted with the possibility that this "cocky wacko" may someday become President. Even Dan Quayle seemed an inspired choice next to Palin.

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Press: Mr. Vice President, if you were to suddenly become President, do you think you would be up to the job?

Dan Quayle: If such an unfortunate thing were to happen, yes, I believe I would be.

San Jose Mercury News (3/31)

I should say here as well that I don't give a damn about Chafee one way or the other. My point is he put his finger on the exact problem. Palin IS a "cocky wacko". The fact that so many Cons think she is peachy-keen just shows how desperate you are. I could live with McCain should he win the election. I wouldn't like it but I doubt he could be as bad as Bush/Cheney. However McCain/Palin is an insult to all Americans....right and left, male and female. It is a harmful and Machiavellian choice. Quite despicable actually.