[GATOR NAVY]

...but that is on Dick Cheney for conducting the search for a veep and choosing himself. It should have been one of the young lions, so said young lion would have been ready in in 2008, after spending 8 years in the support role.

It's too late to do anything about it now, but that is still an excellent point that needs to be remembered for the future. If we had had a strong veep standing by to run in '08 it wouldn't have been Juan Mclame's "turn."

[Theodore R.]

Not at all, GWB had poisoned the well for any “younger” veep that he may have had.