Say it ain't so!

From The Washington Post:

Karl Rove told George W. Bush before the 2000 election that it was a bad idea to name Richard B. Cheney as his running mate, and Rove later raised objections to the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, according to a new book on the Bush presidency.

In "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush," journalist Robert Draper writes that Rove told Bush he should not tap Cheney for the Republican ticket: "Selecting Daddy's top foreign-policy guru ran counter to message. It was worse than a safe pick -- it was needy." But Bush did not care -- he was comfortable with Cheney and "saw no harm in giving his VP unprecedented run of the place."

When Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, expressed concerns about the Miers selection, he was "shouted down" and subsequently muted his objections, Draper writes, while other advisers did not realize the outcry the nomination would cause within the president's conservative political base.

No hold on just a dang minute! We've been told ever since 2000 that Bush was borderline retarded and nothing more than Karl Rove's sock puppet. Now we are supposed to believe that Bush was in charge all along making all the final decisions and overruling Rove when it suited him?

But that means that all those times when the Democrats have been out maneuvered and outsmarted that it was BUSH that was doing it!

I thought he was just a tobacco-chewing dunce with a Playboy in his back pocket.

Oh the humanity!