Romney has courted Jeb Bush for the purpose of making use of Bush's Florida political operation. (Many of Jeb's people are now working for Romney.) But there's no evidence to suggest that he's done it for the purpose of getting Jeb to be his running mate. Why would Romney want that? He'd be hitching himself too closely to the current president for the general election. Where's the political gain there?
Of course it's more for fundraising purposes. It's a long shot, but if things don't turn around, Dubya may have terminated the Bush name's political future. Anyway, having Bushs work for him and suddenly embracing all sorts of right-wing policies makes Romney much more of an establishment candidate than if he ran with his 1994 Senate platform. Bush and Romney's presidential candidacies are also fairly similar inasmuch as that both are former governors, sons of people with failed presidential ambitions, and the largest campaign contribution networks.
