Roger Long wrote:
"jeff" wrote

Sorry, this gibberish has nothing to do with what I'm saying. Cheney was
picked as VP because he was a Bush family friend who could be trusted to
play the game the "Bush" way.

I think you got that backwards? Bush being a simpleton who would toe the
line was also an important part of the selection process.

I won't argue much with that, but Cheney didn't pick him, Cheney was
brought in to do the VP selection and surprise, surprise, he was the
best choice!

I'm sure that you would never find a "paper trail" of the "conspiracy"
to make W the president. And I don't view this as a "smoke filled room"
where "they" went down a list of viable simpletons and stopped at W; I
think the Bush camp made it clear that they would create an environment
very friendly to the needs of their peers. No one else at the time had
quite the credentials to pull that off - McCain was the only
competition, but Carl Rove took care of that ...