Mitt’s not going to be anybody’s VP. Mitt would make a great running mate for anybody, given his ability to work a crowd, and to debate the issues, but I just don’t see him as 2nd banana to anybody. Look at his career. He’s been in charge for the last 40 years.
Mitt has always played an executive role but VP is no slouch job (just ask Cheney) especially in a Senate that will be closely divided. If Mitt truly wants to be president I think he knows that his best bet at overcoming the Mormon issue and getting conservatives to forget his liberal past is to be a red-meat conservative Cheney like VP only without the advanced age, and bad heart.) Romney's business record and his stance on Islamofascism show he is a long term thinker. Fred is no spring chicken, has cancer, and may even if healthy choose not to seek a 2nd term. Waiting 4 years or even 8 (he is young) is not beyond Romney's scope of thinking.
That's a good point. However, the drawbacks of being a VP on a losing ticket are pretty severe. How many losing VPs have been re-nominated for President in the last 30 years? Lets run through them:
1960: Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (MA)
1964: Congressman William Miller (NY)
1968: Sen. Edmund Muskie (ME)
1972: Peace Corp Director R. Sargent Shriver, Jr.
1976: Sen. Bob Dole (KS)
1980: former Sen. Walter Mondale (MN)
1984: Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (NY)
1988: Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (TX)
1992: former Sen. Dan Quayle (IN)
1996: former Rep. Jack Kemp (NY)
2000: Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT)
2004: Senator John Edwards (NC)
The only two losing VP candidates to win their party's nomination were Bob Dole and Walter Mondale. We know how well those presidential campaigns turned out.