Posted on 04/22/2012 12:14:03 PM PDT by Innovative
Republicans are increasingly falling in behind Mitt Romney's White House run, but they haven't got a clue who he should add to the ticket, a CNN/ORC International survey says.
Condoleezza Rice tops the vice presidential wish list among Republicans and right-leaning independents, according to the poll Wednesday. Twenty-six percent of those polled backed the former national security adviser and secretary of state under George W. Bush as Romney's No. 2.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The FP Interview: Condoleezza Rice on Obama, “Leading from Behind,†Iraq, and More
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/02/condoleezza_rice_the_fp_interview
I have no idea whether Condi is conservative. Her foreign policy expertise is unquestionable ... though, apparently, she and Dick Cheney butted heads quite a bit. She’s been largely silent on domestic issues, as a far as I know.
VP polls this early are mostly just name-recognition contests.
SnakeDoc
Doesn't work for me.
Condi Rice Bio
Professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of Business, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Professor of Political Science and FSI Senior Fellow, by courtesy
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/condoleezzarice
Condoleezza Rice is currently a professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution; and a professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of The Rice Hadley Group.
From January 2005-2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position.
If that's the "choice", I'm voting for Goode-Clymer. (and if any freeper is going to whine that doing so will cause Obama to win, I live in Illinois. If you think this state's electoral votes will go to Romney, I have a bridge to sell you). Romney is bad enough, I don't want a running mate who's even MORE liberal.
Ridiculous
Really? I question her foreign policy expertise and believe she was in over her head as Secretary of State, and did a lousy job. Her record on Mexico and Israel was awful and ended in failure. Perhaps she'd make a good Ambassador to Russia, if only Bush had given her that post instead...
NO to Socialist Slick Willard !
Gen. Petraeus (sp) is my first and strongest choice. He can lead and implement strategy
LOL Olympia Snowe is going to be available.
Obviously time to call in the Thundering Evangelists to beat somebody down over this one.
Obviously time to call in the Thundering Evangelists to beat somebody down over this one.
No
Pull black voters? No. Won’t happen.
Key state? No. Rubio helps with hispancs and Florida.
Women? Perhaps. But I doubt it really closes the gender gap in VP position.
Better to pick a VP that guarantees major swing state and helps with Hispanics. Seems like Rubio to me.
I am tellin' ya... A dark horse candidate is going to be able to harness the Christian Right. That can be something close to a third of all voters... If everything aligns, and I am hoping YHWH grants it, conservatives could really get a win with a 3rd party this time.
Oh boy politico bull shit again.
They imagine they can continue to get work ghost writing books and commenting if they can control the Presidential candidate.
That happened to the Democrats a bit earlier, but it's the same problem.
These fringe groups need to be RETURNED TO THE FRINGE. It's time for the PEOPLE to move in and take over their own processes.
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