Yeaahhh yeaaah Catfight!
Posted on 02/15/2005 4:54:06 AM PST by section9
I really like the work they appear to be doing over at "AFR". They have already turned it into an FEC 527, and it appears to be growing rapidly. How rapidly I cannot say. However, their website has that telltale fanboy look, to use an old anime term. I'm sure as time goes by, the site will butch up.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Let's all blame Karl Rove--it will get the DUmmies to blow a gasket.
Someone isn't doing anything to dampen any speculation, and they are doing so for a reason.
Why should they? It's gotta annoy Boxer, Kerry, Kennedy & Co. That's seems reason enough to me.
Thank you for posting this. I personally think she'd be ideal, for all the reasons in the article and those from the two previous posters!
The real indicator will be....
When Cheney steps down for health reasons and Condi is appointed VP.
Chris--good article, thanks.
Condi works for me in '08. Definitely a rising Republican star.
Nice that she gets to work with world leaders now--good Prez prep.
Yeaahhh yeaaah Catfight!
Please let's allow Dr. Rice to do her job she has just been appointed to over a hard-fought battle with the nags.
She will not let the party down - and they might want to concentrate on the next election candidate who Dr. Rice can serve ably.
As much as I like her, I think there are too many "ifs" about a Presidential opportunity at this time.
As for Hillary - I feel the same.
I am female so it isn't a gender issue, it is the two women in question. Honestly I feel neither is up for President.
Didn't I read a rumor on FR yesterday that said President Bush has now nicknamed her "44"?
Yeah, that's been banging around Blogland for about a week now, so I thought I would post it yesterday. Got a pretty good reaction, especially given the fact that it is Bush, apparently, who has given Condi the nickname.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Dr. Rice IS now the face of America before the world. No other nation may produce a phenomenon even remotely similar to her. Brilliant, articulate, poised, and simply an attractive human being to boot, she is also tested and proven in ways that few people are ever called upon to deal with.
Without actually saying so, several Senators called Dr. Rice a liar, a charge which obeyed the old dictum, "She's rubber, you're glue, bounce off her, stick to you." One has to respect the old-fashioned racism of Senator Robert Byrd, who never seems to have regretted the use of the "n-word". While that word would NEVER squeeze past the lips of Senators Kennedy, Boxer or Dayton, they were surely thinking it. Even Joe Biden was overweening in his efforts to show how "tolerant" he was. And he ended up trashing her anyway.
No respect. Just no respect. I believe the term is "dissing"?
"Daddy, I'm barred out of there [the WH] now because of the color of my skin, but one day I'll be in that house." -- 10 year-old Condi "Little Star" Rice (when voting by black people wasn't even protected)
Anyone that doesn't think she wants to be POTUS is utterly clueless. She believes that her parents can see her achieve all the things they dreamed she could achieve. She wants it for them as much for herself. She feels an obligation to succeed to the highest pinnacles possible. She feels she honors her parents by achieving greatness.
Well dude... I ain't clueless and I ain't never heard her utter a word about POTUS.
If, when, she states so... I'll listen to her stand on the issues... just like every other 'clueless' conservative.
That's one hateful old bastard!
She's being coy. She knows it charms the socks off people. She was carefully taught to charm the socks off people. It's not accidental at all. Her parents and aunts and uncles wanted the Rice kids to succeed in the white man's world.
"Little ole me? President? Why, I'd rather be NFL Commissioner. [giggle]"
Johnny7 has a point. Her demographic and electoral positioning is perfect going into any campaign, but as Reagan and Bush the Younger taught us, it is issues that carry conservative political campaigns to victories. Yes, Condi may want to be POTUS, and may believe (as I think she does) that playing the cards close to the vest is the proper path for her at the beginning of her time at State. However, if she is to be the Margaret Thatcher of our time, she must recall that Mrs. T. carried the Tories to a majority on the backs of a clear Manifesto that not only critiqued the bankrupt government of Old Labour but offered conservatism in its stead.
I do not believe that an individual as ideologically conservative as Dr. Rice, especially one who has an understanding of gun rights so firmly grounded in a constitutional understanding of the 2nd Amendment, would run a campaign based on "Vote for Me 'Cause I'm Black!". I believe that we would be surprised at her concious attempt to emulate Thatcher and Reagan.
One thing she can't avoid-the Life issue. The Republican Party is a Pro-Life Party. She has to get right with the Party on this issue, period, or she ain't going anywhere. That's just the bottom line. Thing is, we don't know how her thinking has evolved in the past three years.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Why is the "Senators can't get elected President" rule never applied to Comrade Hillary?
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