Mitt Romney called top VP pick in 2016
Saying it's "obvious," best-selling author and national talk show host Hugh Hewittis urging all of the nearly two dozen potential Republican presidential candidates to pick 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney as their vice presidential choice.
In his upcoming book The Queen, directed at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hewitt said that Romney has the influence and status of former Vice President Dick Cheney, making him a formidable campaigner and White House partner.
That, he added in the book provided to Secrets, will force Clinton to make an equally top-notch pick, not somebody like Joe Biden, the "lovable dolt" chosen by Barack Obama.
The eventual GOP nominee, wrote Hewitt, should pick Romney for just one term, using his fundraising power and credibility to beat Clinton. By serving just one term, Romney wouldn't be a political threat to the president he serves and it would create loyalty from potential successors.
The influential Hewitt, heard in 120 markets, wrote that the eventual nominee "ought to ask Romney to serve as their VP for their first term, and only their first term — thus borrowing the 2012 GOP nominee's immense credibility, fundraising lists and organizational expertise for a first term — and yet assuring the loyalty of all would-be successors through the selection of VP Romney's replacement in the summer of 2020."
His tour for the book published by Center Street Books, begins June 18.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
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