C. Rice would never win in '08. And it is the height of naïvety to even suggest she is qualified to be POTUS when you, and everyone else here, can't say what her economic, social, environmental, etc etc, views are.
Actually, you spoke a tad too soon, but that is understandable given Rice's own rather opaque stances on domestic issues since joining the administration.
We know where she stands on foreign policy. That much is clear.
On domestic policy, I know for a fact that she is resolutely pro-Right to Keep and Bear Arms, not because she's a gunowner, but for proper constitutional reasons and because of her own experiences.
We know that she supports free trade and market capitalism. I can assume that she supported the President's tax relief package to keep the economy going during the opening period of the war.
She hasn't spoken to enviro. issues, although she sat on the board of Chevron and did speak well of the need for oil exploriation.
As to abortion, she has come out as reluctantly pro-choice, but the last time she spoke to the issue was in 2001 during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. She did support restrictions on abortion such as parental consent laws, calling opposition to such laws "crazy". I find no evidence, therefore, that she supports the present doctrine of "abortion on demand".
Finally, she is a close friend of Clarence Thomas. That speaks volumes about her position on judges.
This is all that we know. Now, this isn't perfect, but compared with Giuliani, I'll take Condi any day. Rudy is a gun grabber and supports Roe as the SCOTUS has interpreted it (unrestricted). Please don't talk to me about Bill Frist and his Limp Wrist. George Allen? There's a guy with some possibilities, but Hillary will kill him among women and minorities. A lot of this is demographics.
I do not believe it is in our interest to go down with the ship in 2008 when we are in the midst of trying to build an enduring conservative majority in this country. If some people want to give Hillary Clinton a clear shot at the Supreme Court, go right ahead. I don't see anyone of our people out there who can match her demographic appeal among women except Condi. Period. Sorry, there are too many dumb women out there who will vote for "the sisterhood". Don't believe me? How many Republican women voted for Bubba during the Nineties?
All too many.
Be Seeing You,
Chris