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Assume for a moment that she keeps most if not all of the voters that Bush got this 'time round.

She won't. Around 40% of Bush voters said in a recent poll they won't vote for a woman for President. Rice cannot win enough black Kerry voters to make up for the difference.

Also, I have questions for each of the Rice supporters who have attacked me here. Is she pro-life? What is her stand on gay marriage? Does she want to increase taxes? How about immigration, will she secure our border?

You don't know the answer to these questions because Condi has never answered them. And I suspect that many of her positions on the issues are not something you'd support.

Yet, here you are pushing a candidate for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and you don't even know where she stands on the issues.

Actually, I do know where she stands on some of those issues, but not all of them. It serves her purposes to be opaque on these issues for now. She has a Department to run, and it is in no one's interest for her to go on Crossfire and beat Begala into a bloody pulp.

I seriously doubt if 40% of the Bush voters would stay home, vote for Hillary, write in Kelly the Klansman, or otherwise drink themselves into oblivion to allow the likes of Hillary to gain office. Those 40% you speak of would beg, borrow, or steal to vote for Rice against Hillary. I think you underestimate your fellow Republicans.

For myself, I would move heaven and earth to keep Hillary away from strategic nuclear weapons. In that context, I'll wait and see what Condi has to say about immigration, and other issues, although I'm sure she can't be too happy with Vicente Fox right aobut now. I'm not ready to hand the WOT over to an ingenue to satisfy the bullet-issue people.

You want to run George Allen or Bill Frist? Okay. They're nice guys. They're good conservatives with a capital "c". So's Condi, if you'd give her time. However, you won't, so I'll just keep on doin' what I'm doin', and you just keep on doin' what your doin'.

I know Rice can win an election against Clinton. That doesn't mean she will win, but that she can win. I don't know that Allen, Frist, Rudy, or Jeb!, for that matter, can beat Clinton's margin among women and minorities. I have serious doubts, given the Senator's abilities to use men as foils in the past and the fact that the entire propaganda apparatus of the MSM will be in her corner with a vengeance that will make their partisanship for Kerry look tame in comparison.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

"Is she pro-life?"

No. In 1999 Condi called herself a "pro-choice evangelical."

When questioned about that statement recently, she declined to discuss that interview or her views on social issues.

There's more information about her views here.

People want her so badly that they seem willing to ignore the fact she's a pro-abort, and that the nomination of someone in that camp will tear the party apart.

Will boots beat babies? We'll see.