Posted on 08/09/2005 7:20:10 AM PDT by areafiftyone
August 9, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would be right up there in the 2008 Republican presidential race with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain if she were to run, a poll shows.
Giuliani is the top pick of Republican and Republican-leaning voters at 27 percent, followed by McCain (Ariz.) at 24 percent and Rice at 19 percent, according to the CNN-Gallup poll conducted Friday through Sunday.
All other Republican prospects are in single digits in the poll. Gov. Pataki is favored by just 3 percent and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.) by 9 percent.
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Not celibate. She dated that coach for Notre Dame who used to coach at Stanford (Ty Willingham, I believe) for several years into the Administration. She compartmentalizes her private life from her public life. It's probably how she handles stress; if she has any stress. At the inaugural, she was seen with Gene Washington, head of NFL Operations, formerly a wide receiver with the San Francisco 49ers. She's not gay. She's a bachelorette with a thing for ex-jocks.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Naturally, I disagree, otherwise Condi wouldn't have as prominent a role in the administration as she has now. Bush promotes her every chance he gets. But we can agree to disagree. Be Seeing You,
Chris
See...Google's got nothing this site!
[All I got for "condaleeza rice's boyfriend" was three obscene sites]
I well remember the speech Condi gave at the first election GOP nomination of President Bush. She knocked my socks off, and I vowed right there and then that if she ever ran for office, I would support and vote for her. I very much like the way she has taken hold of her job as Secretary of State,...sure and positive. It is what we have in the White House now and that leadership is surely needed as we go down this terrorist torn road the world in on. Condi understands the whole picture. I cannot imagine the security of this country under the hand of Hillary Clinton. That would be a sure fire accident waiting to happen.
Actually I hope you are right because she would make a good candidate. The ones that are thrown at us now make me very nervous about winning!
Notice that Condi is at only 19%, and this is before she has made ONE chicken dinner speech.
I actually think that her support might go down when she starts making the circuit and actually has to make stands on issues.
Right now she's something of a cypher - we presume that she's with the President on every issue, when that just isn't the case. Like a good soldier, she pushes the Administration's views right now. As a candidate, she will invariably take stands that differ with those positions. She already has on abortion, inasmuch as she's said anything at all on the subject.
This whole thing reminds me of Colin Powell - everybody loved him at the start because he hadn't actually had to take any positions. Everybody thought that he believed whatever they believed, so he had amazing support across the board. As soon as he started saying what he actually believed, his support plummeted.
I think she's a fine lady. I don't think she's our strongest candidate, and I'm not sure how conservative she actually is.
Well, her view of the Second Amendment is certainly the conservative one.
"McCain is significantly to the right of Rice,and despite the fact that I despise McCain personally he would get my support over Rice."
And you know that how?? I've seen almost nothing on Rice's views of the issues, but I "do" know that anybody who authored the un-Constitutional "campaign finance reform" tripe is NO conservative. If you've got info on Rice, I'd like to see it.
Ignorant MicCain would be better as Hillary's running mate. He is such a flaming RINO. Carpet-bagging Rudy should stay in New York, he can do better good there. I vote for Condi/Rummy or Rummy/Condi, heck, I'd settle for a Condi/Coulter mix of some sort! Internationally Condi is the better pick. Ignorant Mic is too much a bur in the repubs side.
Thune might be nice.
Well so far Allen is scoring in the single digits in the polls along with Wacky Pataki so that is why they aren't pimping for him.
As if Hitlery were a human being!
Their base is not going to stay at home for anything.
The next election will be very hard fought, and less about winning over voters - I think the divisions in this country will take some time to heal - as in getting out every vote. I don't think a black woman would do this for the GOP - or for the Rats, come to that. This is not a good thing, but a fact.
I'd rather see Dr. Rice come back to California and run against DiFi. Once shee has some sort of track record in office, then maybe the Oval Office.
Powell was not a conservative. Be Seeing You,
Chris
She'd make Osama-Obama-Odama Barrack her running mate.
I agree. But we didn't know that at the time.
I'm not convinced that Condi is a conservative, either. Only time will tell.
Right now she doesn't have the option of putting her own views out there - she represents the view of the Administration. If she ever becomes a candidate, she'll be forced to take stands and then we'll see how conservative she really is.
Consider the following: Condi considers herself an absolutist on the Second Amendment. Any individual who believes that the Second has to be interpreted as it was originally written is going to nominate Original Intent justices to the Supreme Court. That IS what this is all about, isn't it.
Condi is in favor of restrictions on abortion rights, such as a ban on late term abortions and parental notification laws. Roe would have to be remanded back to the states to make this possible. That opens up all sorts of possibilities.
She was in favor of affirmative action in educational hiring as one factor in the hiring process, but not in the tenure process. The libs hated her at Stanford for that.
Conservative enough for me.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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