Posted on 12/19/2011 5:08:49 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
"America’s first black female secretary of state is quietly positioning herself to be the top choice of the eventual Republican presidential nominee, ready to deliver bona fide foreign-policy credentials lacking among the candidates. The 56-year-old has recently raised her profile, releasing her memoir in November and embarking on a monthlong book tour."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
At some point, we need to consider how we’re going to win.
Seriously.
Our nation is well and truly on the line. If we lose, there will be no nation which will save the world.
This is for all the marbles.
We have already knocked several very good candidates from the race, just by being “against” things.
It’s time for us now, to start planning to win.
Republican establishment retreads’ time has passed.
Condoleezza Rice on Obama's Victory
Condi Rice defends Obama foreign policy
Rice meets with Obama, then defends his administration's approach
Rice Urges Israel to Aid Palestinian Election
Condoleezza Rice tells Pakistan not to delay elections amid growing fears of martial law
Condi Rice is NOT "our own." She's just another big government liberal Republican, who BTW has NEVER been elected to any office at any level of government.
the “knee jerk” is conservatives feeling like that have to cast everywhere for a nonwhite candidate to prove the GOP is not “racist” and going all squishy everytime they find a “minority” who is articulate. Or not even articulate.
Enough already.
Just choose someone of principle and competence who has actually achieved something. Someone with a track record.
DeMint/Ryan/Cantor.. even the dullard Jindal has a track record. Rice is no leader. She was an employee.
Quite frankly, as Conservatives, our chances of winning flew right out the window when Sarah Palin called Mark Levin and told us that she's not running.
NO.
Allen West for veep in 2012, for president in 2020!
Let’s besiege the editorial page of the Washington Times with our opinions on this. The people on Third Street in DC read it and note what’s on its pages.
To be honest, I don’t think Condi would run. I think she has some areas of vulnerability in her private life and doesn’t want to lose her privacy.
“our chances of winning flew right out the window when Sarah Palin called Mark Levin and told us that she’s not running”
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Palin never planned to run. She never assembled a team for running. She didn’t put any effort into qualifying to be on the ballot in a single state.
This isn’t criticism of her decision. Just wondering why so many ever thought she was running in the first place.
OMG. . .leave Condi to her Profession; and pick Lt. Col. Allen West. It is MItt who offered Condi as a consideration. Bad, and worse; this team.
Bingo.
Your #8 post and this one are 100% accurate!! It is getting pretty tiresome. There’s not a lot of deep thinking going on at FR these days. People even fall for John Semmens satire over and over just because they can’t resist latching onto the negative!! Some still don’t get it even when the threads end!
Take nothing; any of these people say; at face value.
“(Condoleezza could accept VP nod)”
On which ticket? Like Colon Powell, didn’t Condo back Barry in 2008?
I can’t imagine any conservative picking her.
What are her domestic policy positions?
NEVER! If you want true conservatives to not vote, put Rice on the ballot.
She had a very large grassroots network primed and ready to go. The MSM just ignored us, but the GOP-E was deathly afraid.
Palin Lays Out What Her Campaign Would Look Like
Palin in Madison: "Game on, Mr. President!"
Sarah Palin's Speech in Indianola, Iowa
There ya go again, playing identity politics. It’s neither needed nor wanted.
Perry and Allen West! Now there is a ticket. The testosterone in the White House would be through the ROOF!
You are fighting a good fight here on FR, but FReepers here have decided that it's all or nothing.
It does no good to explain to them that our first objective is to remove Obama. Condi? Not good enough. Mitt? Not good enough. Newt? Not good enough. Perry? Not good enough.
Instead, people who regard themselves as conservatives need to realize that "Good Enough" equals an Obama replacement. President Good Enough will at least prevent Obama from the destruction he has started. We have to stop the bleeding before we can call the surgeon.
But freepers want to hold out for the perfect conservative, and in doing so, they will give Obama a free ride through 2016.
Thank you for the list of links. I was so excited after Indianola...so on fire and accurate. A real treat of 40+minutes of ‘red meat’. I understand the decision
“We’re here because America is at a tipping point. America faces a crisis. And it’s not a crisis like perhaps a Midwest summer storm – the kind that moves in and hits hard, but then it moves on. No, this kind will relentlessly rage until we do restore all that is free and good and right about America. It’s not just fear of a double dip recession. And it’s not even the shame of a credit downgrade for the first time in U.S. history. It’s deeper than that. This is a systemic crisis due to failed policies and incompetent leadership. And we’re going to speak truth today. It may be hard-hitting, but we’re going to speak truth today because we need to start talking about what hasn’t worked, and we’re going to start talking about what will work for America. We will talk truth.” — Sarah Palin, Sept 3, 2011 at Indianola.
I understand why she chose not to run at this time. A portion of this decision was was made clearer to me after reading Executive Orders and Debt of Honor (fictional novels by Tom Clancy). In Executive Orders you can see the family sacrifice required by a President. With young children and a special needs child to consider, I can see why Sarah struggled with the decision to be President. It is not a part time job but a full and consuming job.
It is up to us!!!
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Vote out your current incumbent Representative in Washington. It is the peoples house, the United States House of Representatives belongs to us and we must take it back.
I’ll be happy to accept the nomination.
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