Elizabeth Dole could not beat the wicked witch from New York, er..Illinois..er...Arkansas. Condi will take the Republican vote, the anti-Hillary vote, and deprive Hillary of the Dems "take-them-for-granted black American vote".
Hillary will counter with Congressman Harold Ford as VP...or an outside chance of that stellar Sec. of Energy, Clinton apologist turned Governor, Bill Richardson.
Condi won't pick Jeb - wouldn't be prudent -- but instead will look to Senator Santorum to shore up her conservative credentials, and lock up Pennsylvania which, as we have found out is an essential electoral collegel state.
There you have it - the definitive 2008 inside scoop.
If Elizabeth continues to play the moping wallflower, I'll agree with your assessment. If she starts to talk and work the crowd, I'm back to my original lineup. All you've got to do is have the wicked witch and my ole southern gal side by side, listen to them speak, watch them dance, and poor old Hillary won't know what hit her.
What exactly has Rice done to deserve consideration for being on the ticket? She has no electoral successes to speak of. It seems people support her only because of the Dick Morris "only she can beat Hillary" analysis.
Rice probably could reduce the landslide margin by which Hillary would beat another GOP candidate among blacks, and possibly among women. But whose to say those gains wouldn't be offset by a loss of support from the base? We know she is liberal on racial preferences (like Bush), so that probably bodes ill for her stance on other social and cultural issues.
Where is she on marriage? Abortion? Immigration? Second Amendment? Judges?
She's probably closer to Giuliani on each of those than to any winning Republican, and if that is true, she'd be just as unacceptable as Giuliani.
If I'm wrong, then I'd be happy to reconsider her. But to support her in the mistaken belief that only she can beat Hillary is misguided, in my opinion.