Opinion: Sarah Palin gets approving words from President Bush, VP Dick Cheney

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The two top members of the outgoing Republican administration have publicly, and not at all surprisingly, joined the Sarah Palin bandwagon.

Dick Cheney -- the polarizing vice president who missed his party’s conclave in St. Paul, Minn., last week because he was conveniently out of the country -- still had time to check out Palin’s big speech to the gathering and declared it ‘superb.’

Our colleague Johanna Neuman, over at the Countdown to Crawford blog, has more on what Cheney has to say about the woman who hopes to succeed him, including his evaluation that there’s ‘no reason’ Palin ‘can’t be a successful vice president.’

Meanwhile, President Bush, in an interview to air Tuesday morning on Fox News, praises Palin as ‘a very dynamic, capable, smart woman.’ And he gives credit to John McCain for making ‘an inspired choice’ in selecting her as his running mate.

Neuman also has more from Bush’s interview.

-- Don Frederick