That ain't too bad with some hot sauce...
Posted on 03/01/2005 12:11:49 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Since moving from the White House to the State Department, Condoleezza Rice's star appears to be rising faster than any Washington politico, including President Bush and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Only the ailing Pope John Paul - with a whopping 78% favorability rating - got higher marks than the secretary of state in a new Gallup poll released yesterday.
"There's been less controversy lately than last year when Condi was testifying in Congress, and now she's in a much more prominent position," said Marist College pollster Lee Miringoff. "As secretary of state you add legitimacy to your power."
Rice, who already is being urged to run for President in 2008 by some, has a 59% favorability rating in the poll, while only 27% of respondents gave her an unfavorable score.
"When she was national security advisor, she looked like a staffer. Now she looks like someone running an important department," Miringoff added.
Bush trailed Rice with a 56% favorability rating, followed by Clinton, who's considered the Democratic presidential front-runner in four years, at 53%.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean lagged far behind the pack at 35%, and his numbers suggested he needs to raise his profile a bit. Some 14% of people polled said they had never heard of Dean, while another 18% had no opinion of him.
I would respectfully disagree.
I concur that situations are not relative or completely comparable. I would also agree that Bush has handled the modern threat of terrorism extremely well.
But Reagan's task was more dire than Bush's in that we had problems both at home (economic) and abroad (communism) and both were threatening to collapse the very pillars this nation was built on. He employed ideals both here and abroad that brought back the nation's economic spirit, it's nationalistic pride and it's seat of world power that was non-existent in the 1970's. Bush did not have such daunting problems prior to 9/11.
Again, Bush's response to 9/11 was very Reaganesque and I think history will show that. But his domestic agenda leaves much to be disired and in no way reflects what Reagan believed and/or accomplished in bringing our party and nation back from the depths that it was in.
Thanks for your reply,mariabush! If anybody knows about the Clintons,it is people like yourself who has lived in the same area. After all these past years of observing Hillary, it just boggles the mind to think that she is considered the most intelligent woman in the world. What is the proof?
She could hurt somebody with those heels, couldn't she?
She looks great, IMO.
Maybe,but attractive! hehehe!
Why run for senate in CA? Senators don't win presidential races.
Condi wears her FMP's to her advantage, that's for sure.
Slovak flag, the picture is from last week when Bush and Condi were in the Slovak Republic.
I absolutely LOVE your username, and I agree wholeheartedly!!!
I'm bad at judging the looks of men, but I'll take your word for it. You might ask Dashing Dasher for a 2nd opinion.
Thanks!
“Rice characterizes herself as an "all-over-the-map Republican," whose views are "hard to typecast": "very conservative" in foreign policy, "ultra-conservative" in other areas, "almost shockingly libertarian" on some issues, "moderate" on others, "liberal" on probably nothing. (She calls herself "mildly pro-choice" on abortion.)” - August 30, 1999, issue of National Review. (http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/nordlinger200411170605.asp)
“By her own description, she is pro-choice, or more completely, a ``pro-choice evangelical.'' The deeply religious daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Rice believes, nonetheless, that a decision to seek an abortion is personal and should not be subject to governmental dictates.” - San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, July 1, 1999 (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/01/MN61464.DTL)
Great boots, and what about those stiletto heels, all the better to walk all over some people with!
I tend to equate President Bush's domestic agenda with Reagan's domestic accomplishments, but your points are taken. 9/11 entirely derailed his domestic agenda, but he rallied magnificantly.
We can argue the nicities until our fingers fall off, but the fact is that both presidents were and are the perfect men for the unique situations they faced, and will in the future.
I'll honor both as great on their own merits.
Dare I ask what that means?
LOL, but even the left had to drop the "smartest woman in the world" schtick when Hillary! claimed she never knew Bill cheated on her. We conservatives seem to be the only ones who throw it back at them.
That ain't too bad with some hot sauce...
So what would YOU call women who are completely dependent on their husbands for protection?
For anyone, male or female, to be completely dependent on someone else for protection is a very dangerous thing. What if someone is alone when she's attacked and doesn't know how to defend herself? Dependency will lead to disaster.
Supporting true conservative values means supporting individual liberties, self-defense, and freedom from being dependent on another entity for protection, whether it's a government agency or your own spouse. These are values that both men and women should be encouraged to have.
Maybe instead of calling women who depend on their husband's "umbrella of protection" subservient doormats, we should call them crime victims-in-training.
They can't use "orphan". We know very well that she is from a stable, strong family. If used, that lie would backfire big time.
She looks fabulous!
However, he looks like he's wearing a helmet.
Did anyone figure out who he is?
Dasher -
busy scouting men for women all over the world....
"JACKBOOTS!!! SEE, i TOLD YOU - JACKBOOTS!!!" < /DUkool-aid >
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