Petraeus? I don't think so.

2012                                               Let's Have No More Talk of Romney-Petraeous “ If we're going to play Washington's favorite parlor game, we might as well ask the inevitable question: Would Petraeus really run as a Republican? Testifying Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he articulated policy positions on Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Bagram detention facility that sounded like planks of the Democratic, not Republican, platform. That's just the beginning of his surprisingly liberal politics: Says "the time has come" to consider repealing don't ask, don't tell. Opposes sending Guantanamo detainees to the Bagram facility in Afghanistan. Supports closing the prison at Guantanamo. Opposes "enhanced interrogation" methods like waterboarding. Condemns Israel's behavior in the Palestinian conflict as undermining U.S. regional interests. Soft on drugs: Has made combating Afghanistan's massive opium trade a low priority. Soft on crime: Supports reconciling with Taliban leaders and backed Sunni militias in Iraq's Sunni Awakening. Worst of all, he's a big-government liberal: [The Atlantic] What?  Not enough? Have you ever seen him in the same room with David Hackett Souter? Did you know Petraeus's wife Holly works in the Obama administration as the assistant director for service member affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency founded as a part of the Dodd-Frank Act. The genesis of the Drudge Report story about being picked by Romney was an Obama backer who said the president suggested Petraeus would be Romney's pick— and wasn't joking. So much for that one.  I hope. ”