He described Mr Romney and Paul Ryan, his running mate, as a "great team", noting a similarity between Mr Romney and himself. "When he said he could work across the aisle, it caught my attention, because that's what I tried to do," he said. Mr Dole said Mr Romney's recruitment of Mr Ryan, a fiscal hawk and disciple of Mr Kemp who worked as a speech writer on the 1996 campaign, was an "extension of Jack's legacy".