[Alberta's Child]

Romney never had any intention of asking Petraeus to be his running mate. The evidence of this is that Romney's team went to such great lengths to ignore anything related to Afghanistan or the so-called "war on terror" from his campaign. Selecting Obama's CIA director as his running mate would have made something too obvious to voters: Both major parties are on the same side of almost every major issue in the U.S. today.

[livius]

Well, that’s absolutely the truth. Both parties - or at least their leaders - are on the same side.

So therefore it would have been no problem for Romney to have picked Petraeus (who is as liberal as the day is long and was perfectly happy with Obama) as his running mate, and it was only the nagging feeling that he had to somehow pretend to be conservative that made him pick Ryan...who like Palin, was never allowed to say much of anything.

Ryan had actually wanted to go to some of our black ghetto areas and to a lot of Hispanic areas and make a pitch on economic and personal liberty, and he was shut down by Romney’s campaign.

I’m never voting for VP again.