America would be better off if W had followed all of Rove's advice. Rove advised Bush that it was a bad idea to name Cheney as his running mate.

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 ["Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush" by Robert Draper].