WOW-WAPO: Rove Told Bush It Was A BAD IDEA To Name Cheney As VP

[kpete]

Karl Rove told George W. Bush before the 2000 election that it was a bad idea to name Richard B. Cheney as his running mate, and Rove later raised objections to the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, according to a new book on the Bush presidency.

When Rove, President Bush’s top political adviser, expressed concerns about the Miers selection, he was “shouted down” and subsequently muted his objections, Draper writes, while other advisers did not realize the outcry the nomination would cause within the president’s conservative political base.

It was John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief justice of the United States, who suggested Miers to Bush as a possible Supreme Court justice, according to the book. Miers, the White House counsel and a Bush loyalist from Texas, did not want the job, but Bush and first lady Laura Bush prevailed on her to accept the nomination, Draper writes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201422.html?hpid=topnews

[pwb]

1. Cheney picked Cheney for that job. Remember?

[kurth]

2. And Rove Also Told Bush It Was A BAD IDEA To Invade Iraq

Also Told Bush It Was A BAD IDEA To Hire Alberto Gonzales, etc. etc.

[rucky]

3. His new book will be entitled...

"A Big Ass To Cover"

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Good one!

:rofl:

[Robbien]

5. I don't trust anything the author Draper writes.

So I am dubious of anything revealed in this book of his.

[tularetom]

6. That's why rove isn't there anymore

He was dumb enough to think that the boy king was actually in charge? Guess rove wasn't the genius the media made him out to be.

[Spinzonner]

7. I guess Roberts wanted his own Thomas

and Scalia wouldn't share

[tanyev]

8. Sounds like Rove was a primary source for the book.

[DemReadingDU]

9. That's what I was thinking

;)