Didn't Cheney Head The VP Selection Committee And Nominate Himself?

[DrFunkenstein]

Did I dream that?

Ironically, Cheney was the man Bush had tapped to lead his vice presidential search efforts. After three months of deliberations and "vetting" of potential candidates, Bush has chosen a trusted family adviser with whom he has already forged a close working relationship.

Gov. Bush's top advisers insist that the governor arrived at the choice on his own, but several close advisers to the former president said he has for weeks been talking up Cheney as a prospect and that they were certain he had spoken to his son about it.

Even Cheney admitted he did not expect to be standing on a podium as Bush's vice presidential selection. Insisting that he wanted only to lead the search effort, Cheney said Tuesday, "I had an experience that changed my mind last spring."

Cheney emerged as the front-runner for the position quite suddenly last Friday, when it was learned that he changed his voter registration from Dallas, where he has served as CEO of the oil field services firm Halliburton Co., back to Wyoming -- which would eliminate a constitutional barrier to his serving as vice president.

Under the Constitution, one party's candidates for the nation's two highest offices may not reside in the same state.

Closing a touchy subplot to the larger Republican presidential contest, Bush called McCain around 9 a.m. EDT, according to a source close to the senator. McCain, who engaged Bush in blistering battle for the Republican nomination early in the primary season, became the object of speculation late last week, when he reportedly told Pennsylvania's Republican Gov. Tom Ridge that he would serve in the Number 2 slot if asked.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/25/bush.vp/

[displacedtexan]

1. Yep.

But at least he's not afraid of horses!

He was also a Nixon White House aide (trans. paper shredder) during his 5 deferment days.

[Ducks In A Row]

2. I reminded some people of this yesterday

we were talking about bush saying he had selected cheney as vp, but it was cheney who selected himself, after pretending to to help bush search for a vp.