[Liz]

Hillary knows the political landscape has changed dramatically.

The political ground under her prez ambitions has shifted, and she is on very shaky ground.

I, for one, am not worried about any Dem candidate they would dig up. Losers, losers, losers.

Condi would have to establish some very serious conservative credentials ....as far as we know, she is not pro-life....and that is a must for a Republican candidate. She is out of the running is she so much as hints that abortion might be somebody's (gag) right.

[Lando Lincoln]

Condi would have to establish some very serious conservative credentials ....as far as we know, she is not pro-life....and that is a must for a Republican candidate.

Liz, perhaps you are right. But, I think the shift in the black vote and even the women vote would offset that and then some. Condi would be very, very formidable.

BTW.....I've been off the reservation for awhile myself. I hope you are well and looking forward to Christmas and the New Year.

Lando

[MHT]

Condi needs to be elected to SOMETHING before embarking on the journey to the White House. The only person in our time who has been able to begin his political career with a White House run was Eisenhower, and heck, he earned the right to compete at that level by saving the western world as we knew it.

Then again, like Eisenhower and Wilson, Condi teethed on academic politics which are the worst of all, because so little is at stake.

However, I seriously think that Powell could have it without having run before by virtue of, by 2008, twenty years of being in the forefront of military and international politics.