I see our first knee jerk as per usual, is to criticize our own.
Starting to get used to that.
your own...not mine
so vote for Romney and Rice....that’s obviously the kind of ‘Beltway Republican’ you are.
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.
In early December 2008, Rice praised President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of New York Senator Hillary Clinton to succeed her as Secretary of State, saying “she's terrific”. Rice, who has spoken to Clinton since her selection, said Clinton “is someone of intelligence and she'll do a great job”.
Rice said “If you go back to 2000 when I helped the president in the campaign. I said that I was, in effect, kind of libertarian on this issue. And meaning by that, that I have been concerned about a government role in this issue. I am a strong proponent of parental choice—of parental notification. I am a strong proponent of a ban on late-term abortion. These are all things that I think unite people and I think that that's where we should be. I've called myself at times mildly pro-choice.”
Conservative criticism According to the Washington Post in late July 2008, former Undersecretary of State and U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton was referring to Rice and her allies in the Bush Administration whom he believes have abandoned earlier hard-line principles when he said: “Once the collapse begins, adversaries have a real opportunity to gain advantage. In terms of the Bush presidency, this many reversals this close to the end destroys credibility... It appears there is no depth to which this administration will not sink in its last days.”[107]
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly criticized Rice after their terms in office ended.[clarification needed] In 2011 she finally responded, saying that Rumsfeld “Doesn't know what he's talking about.”[108]
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new book, In My Time suggested that Rice had misled the president about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea, saying she was naïve. He called her advice on the issue “utterly misleading.” He also chided Rice for clashing with White House advisors on the tone of the president's speeches on Iraq. And says the secretary of state “tearfully admitted” that the Bush administration should not have apologized for a claim the president made in his 2003 State of the Union address on the supposed search for uranium. She “came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right,” Cheney wrote. Rice responded: “It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?”, saying that she viewed the book as an “attack on my integrity.”[109]
Rice has also been criticized by other conservatives. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard accused her of jettisoning the Bush Doctrine.[110] Other conservatives criticized her for her approach to Russia policy and other issues.[111] Many criticize Rice in particular for her opposition to the change of strategy in Iraq and surge in U.S. forces that began in 2007.[112]
I have seen it in print that she voted for obama.
LLS