Cheney urges Wyo. to rally behind Romney

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CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 15 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney urged a crowd at the Wyoming Republican Party state convention to support presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

"It's very important that we gather together and get behind our likely nominee Mitt Romney," Cheney said Saturday in Cheyenne. "Mitt Romney can do a whale of a job for us, as a candidate and as a president."

Convention organizers weren't sure Cheney would be able to attend the event because of his March 24 heart transplant, but the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle reported he looked healthy.

Cheney told convention-goers he initially turned down an offer to be considered for vice president for former President George W. Bush.

"I said I want to sit down with you [Bush], and I want to vet myself, and I want to go through everything you need to know about why you should not pick me," Cheney said. "The fact is, he never took that first 'no' for an answer."