"Not only that but I feel strongly that you can't have run a candidate for president that has never been in an election campaign. Way too many landmines out there. It's not anti-black or anti-woman to say Condi needs to get some campaign experience before running for the biggest job in the world. "
An Allen/Rice ticket would be a good thing. Especially if Rove is running the campaign. What worries me about Condi is the Democrats leaking something false like she is a lesbian. The media circus would be ridiculous and they would spend the next 6 months calling Republicans hypocrites. This will happen and Rice would need to know how to deal with it.
Nah, if the Dems voters believed it (and I think it's unlikely, but not entirely impossible that she IS), the only way they could vote Dem would be to pass up the female/black/gay candidate in favor of a straight white male with a sweet little wife at his side (because the Dem Party only has straight white male candidates available, and will NOT let another candidate with a TeRAYzah-type wife onto their ticket). And the Dems would be forced to campaign on a platform of why a straight white male candidate with a sweet little wife would make a better President than Condi. The core Dem constituency would be lying paralyzed on their therapists sofas, and wouldn't make it to the polls.
This will happen and Rice would need to know how to deal with it.
What has Rice ever not known how to deal with? Her campaign staff would plant rumors that the Dem candidate ordered her outed, in retaliation for her having bedded down the Dem candidate's wife a few years back. Dems would end up looking like a bunch of National Enquirer devotees, as they tried to quash the rumor. Condi herself would stay far, far above the fray, never even acknowledging its existence.
FYI: Karl Rove says he is not going to handle another presidential campaign.