[Tennessean4Bush]

Powell is not going to satisfy the Bush base IMHO. I do not think he is pro-life and he let's his underlings mouth off about how peeved he is about this or that Bush policy. He needs to be gone in a second term, and I bet he wants to be gone. I think Condi is pro-life, but I am not sure. Any VP is probably going to need to be pro-life.

[beckett]

Yeah Powell would not work for most of the base, but he would work for the independent vote, and for the more flexible part of the base. And he could grab a serious percentage of Democrats proper.

Powell would not take the job anyway, so this is all purely nonsense speculation. As you say, he is out if the president gets a second term.