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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

I think you underestimate your fellow Republicans.

I don't, really. They see through this "opaque to serve her purposes" Clintonian smokescreen. Who said, "I'm pro-choice"? Oh, and think about that Drudge Report headline: 'Condoleezza Rice's coat and boots speak of sex and power'...

Every Christian conservative in the country (the ones who vote in GOP primaries) has seen it by now. You know Drudge is pro-life, right? The "matrix" image isn't going to work, and 10-to-1 Rice loses if she goes for the nomination. Don't worry about it, because that's a good thing:

Hillary Leads Condi in 2008 Match-Up

Seven point lead... I would get to the polls to vote for Condi in a general election (thankfully, I won't have to). But my old boys in the red states wouldn't show for Condi. They don't take kindly to threats and would put up with another Clinton to prove it, 95% of the 40% will sit on their hands. But that hypothetical isn't going to happen.

I don't know that Allen, Frist, Rudy, or Jeb!, for that matter, can beat Clinton's margin among women and minorities.

Wrong. Now tell me who is underestimating Republicans?