Bush strategist says to ignore politics when picking a VP
(NEWSER) - From now until August, pundits will be speculating about Mitt Romney's VP choice, and poring over the political benefits of each candidate. Karl Rove thinks Romney should ignore all of that and choose, as George W. Bush did, the "best partner in the White House and a person the country would have confidence in if something terrible happened to him." In his Wall Street Journal column, Rove reveals that he at first strenuously objected to Bush picking Dick Cheney as his VP, and that Bush even had Rove detail all his objections—as Cheney sat, "mute and expressionless, next to the governor." More»
