Condoleezza Rice 2008?

[Reader of news]

What is your opinion about Dr. Condoleezza Rice?

[kimmie7]

bump for later opine.....
thanks for posting this.

[rhombus]

Smart woman but never held and elective office. She may be more suited as the type of person to get things done rather than a politician.

[petitfour]

Does she believe a woman has the right to kill her unborn baby?

[SoCal Pubbie]

My opinion of her just fell a bit when I read she has a degree from Notre Dame. Poor woman!

[Bean Counter]

I suspect we will see Condi on the ticket as Veep in '08 as an alternative to Hillery. I don't think she'll be running for President, because I suspect that Jeb is going to run and he'll be annointed as the favorite son....

Condi is imminently qualified, but may not have the political gusto to land the nomination...

(<pulling on flameproof longjohns....)

[TommyDale]

If she runs, she gets my vote.

[ken5050]

I'm a great admirerer, and take her at her word that she wants to be the Commissioner of the NFL some day...(g)...I think she'd make a great president...though I wonder if the question of her unmarried status would ever come into play..I've never read anything about any relationships...would that be a factor...the dreaded "L" word..and I don't mean Liberal

[suekas]

And there's George Pataki.

[Onelifetogive]

What is your opinion about Dr. Condoleezza Rice?

She would be the first Pres from Alabama...

No questions about her foriegn policy expertise....(likely she IS the expertise of the current administration which is doing a pretty good job)

Spending??? Can she slow to growth??? Would she want to slow the growth???

[Jim Noble]

I like her, but I don't think she's political.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Smart woman but never held and elective office. She may be more suited as the type of person to get things done rather than a politician."

"I suspect we will see Condi on the ticket as Veep in '08 as an alternative to Hillery. I don't think she'll be running for President, because I suspect that Jeb is going to run and he'll be annointed as the favorite son....

Agree--she needs "seasoning" in SOME elective office first--I can see Rice as VP on a Guiliani-Rice ticket in 2008 (and maybe 2012) and as candidate for president in 2016.

[sinkspur]

She won't be the nominee. She's held no elective office, and that is a liability.

[AAABEST]

I've heard that she's pro-death a lot on this forum. I would love to be proven wrong and would apologize if such is the case.

Can we get a verification on this one way or the other?

[katana]

I think she needs to be tested in the fire of an election campaign of some kind somewhere.

Condi really may be the actual "Smartest Woman in America" and, unlike the famous pretender to that title, has the credentials to prove it. But intellectual capacity has little to do with leadership ability and political "smarts". Also, not many brilliant people have the skin thickness needed to survive much less thrive in the stinking mud of your average political contest.

This is not to say she doesn't have what it takes, it's just that at the moment we don't know. Based on the her almost unbelievable background and obvious intellect she could make one of the greatest Secretaries of State in the Republic's history. But the top job requires a set of skills which she has not yet had a chance to demonstrate she has.

[Capt. Tom]

She has a great resume but how do you get this so wrong:

"Rice could face tough questioning. One Republican commissioner says a comment by Rice last year—that no one “could have predicted that they would try to use a…hijacked airplane as a missile”—was "an unfortunate comment . . . that was, of course, a wrong-footed statement on its face," given that there was years of intelligence about Al Qaeda's interest in airplane attacks."

And this is coming from our National Security Advisor?

But then again her boss thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

There is a difference though her stupid statement came out before any election and the other came out afterwards.

But when you see how inept the socialists (dems) have become, it may not even be a factor. - Tom