Let me start by saying Mitt Romney is a Pathological Liar.
Dick Cheney is a warmongering control freak who decided in 2007 that Mitt Romney is so weak and greedy for power he would be perfect as Cheney's new Puppet. That's why Liz Cheney endorsed Romney in 2007.
Dick Cheney figured out that, out of all the GOP candidates for President, Mitt Romney was the best suited to be Cheney's puppet because Mitt Romney has no core beliefs. Romney wants nothing more than to be President and he has shown he will lie, mislead, erased and replaced computer hard drives, shred documents, and hire Bush/Cheney Advisors in order to try to get there.
In 2007, Cheney made sure Romney hired most of Bush/Cheney Policy Advisers -- and Romney did just that. Romney has hired Bush/Cheney Advisers who helped falsify Intel so-as-to gain public & Congressional support to invade Iraq. Romney has hired Bush/Cheney Advisers whose policies melted down the US Economy in 2007.
Now, if you know anything at all about Dick Cheney, you know that he knows: in order for Dick Cheney to have complete control over America invading oil countries -- so that he, via Halliburton, can get richer -- and to fulfill his paranoid warmongering delusions, Cheney must also have complete control over the Vice President as well as President.
Currently, I have concluded that the only two people Dick deems as loyal to Dick Cheney and who he knows he can have control over is: Liz Cheney and Rob Portman. Face it, Dick Cheney will not let Romney pick his own Vice President as that would be too big a variable for Cheney's paranoia.
I think Cheney picked Romney's VP and told Romney who his VP would be during the Coronation of the Puppet Strings on July 12, 2012.
TIMING:
July 12, 2012 Dick Cheney officially put Romney's puppet strings on him at his home in what was camouflaged as a "fundraiser." It was at the Coronation of Putting Romney's Puppet Strings on Mitt where Dick Cheney told Mitt who his Vice President would be.
Five days later, July 17, 2012 Dick Cheney, feeling very assured at himself as Puppet Master of the GOP President & Vice Presidential Candidates, held several closed-door meetings with House & Senate Republicans over how the GOP would vote on Foreign Policy between now and election day.
In short, Cheney is letting Americans and Foreign Countries know, by his actions, that he will be in control of America's Foreign Policy if Romney is elected President.
Face it, Dick Cheney is a paranoid, delusional, warmongering hater who, along with George Bush and Romney's Advisers, invaded a country for oil and melted down the US Economy in the process. Therefore, Dick Cheney does not 'trust' intelligent, rational people so he surrounds himself with 'yes-men' who are loyal to Cheney before any loyalty to the Electorate, like George Bush, Mitt Romney and Romney's Advisers.
In my opinion, all the media's Vice Presidential candidate chatter on Bobby Jindal, Pawlenty and Paul Ryan is laughable as Dick Cheney would never let any of those people even remotely get between him and Romney. Oh sure, all those guys I listed are bought and owned by Corporations but none of them have shown their Allegiance to Dick Cheney like Liz Cheney and Rob Portman have.
ROB PORTMAN IN CHENEY'S PRIVATE CIRCLE
Cheney's Book highlights the fact that Rob Portman is in his private circle. Cheney first mentions Rob Portman in September 2000 when Portman was a Representative for Ohio and used taxpayer money to help prep Cheney for Vice Presidential Debate against Joe Lieberman.
"I asked Rob Portman, then a Congressman for Ohio, to join our [prep] sessions. He spent countless hours listening to tapes of Lieberman's speeches and knew not only the substance of responses the senator was likely to give but also the way he was likely to deliver them."
~ Dick Cheney "In My Time" page 278
Dick Cheney went on to describe who he "trusted" that watched the Cheney/Portman prep sessions:
"I invited people I trusted - including Steve Hadley, Paul Wolfowitz and Scotter Libby."
Paul Wolfowitz co-authored Romney's Foreign Policy.
Steve Hadley: Endorser and behind the scenes adviser to Mitt Romney.
Rob Portman went on to play Al Gore for George W. Bush's prep sessions and then John Edwards for Dick Cheney.
Rob Portman served in the first Bush/Cheney Administration as White House Counsel and then as Bush's Chief Lobbyist to Congress.
Portman also serve in two Cabinet positions for the Bush/Cheney Administration.
Face it, Rob Portman is the only person the media chatters about who has proven to be loyal to Dick Cheney. That is why Dick Cheney picked Rob Portman to be Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential Candidate.
Just what we don't need: a 3rd Bush/Cheney Administration.