Well if Mitt Romney thinks that former Vice President Dick Cheney "is a man of wisdom and judgment" then I have question Mitt Romney's own wisdom and judgment, or I should say glaring lack of wisdom and judgment, and so should many Americans.
Romney says Cheney has qualities he would seek in a vice-president candidate
By Matt Viser , Globe Staff
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney yesterday praised former Vice President Dick Cheney, saying he would seek a running mate who shared many traits of longtime, and often controversial, political figure.
At a town hall meeting in a retirement community in Arizona, Romney was asked whether he would name a Tea Party person as his vice presidential nominee. He didn’t answer directly, instead saying that his “overwhelming critera” was that they be ready to become president.
“I think it was last weekend I was watching C-SPAN, and I saw Vice President Dick Cheney and he was being asked questions about a whole host of issues -- following 9/11, the affairs in various countries in the world,” Romney said, according to MSNBC . “And I listened to him speak and said whether you agree or disagree with him, this is a man of wisdom and judgment, and he could have been president of the United States.”
“That’s the kind of persona I’d like to have – a person of wisdom and judgment,” he added.
Does Romney think most Americans hold Dick Cheney in such high esteem? Does Mitt really regard Cheney as the Republican Party's Senior Statesman and the GOP's leading authority on foreign policy issues?
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Romney may have been subtly trying to score points from Cheney, but it’s unclear whether he’d seek – or want – the endorsement from someone who remains controversial.
This has to raise some serious questions about the kind of people a president Romney would bring into critical posts in his administration were he to become president. It appears that Mitt Romney's White House inner circle would be every bit as incompetent and corrupt as George W. Bush's was.