Pretraeus for Veep?
President Obama has been whispering that Mitt Romney wants CIA Director, General David Petraeus to be his running mate, according to Drudge.
Posted: August 7th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Congressional Races | Tags: Barack Obama, Gen. David Petraeus, Mitt Romney | 1 Comment »The pick could be a shrewd Romney choice. A cross-party pull. The Obama administration hailed Petraeus as one of history’s greatest military strategists. Petraeus was unanimously confirmed as the Director of the CIA by the US Senate 94-0.
But Petraeus has categorically asserted that he has NO political ambitions. And Team Obama stands prepared to tie one of their own to “Bush wars.” A Petraeus pick could been seen as simply shuffling the decks of power in DC.