Posted on 04/06/2008 5:45:37 PM PDT by GVnana
WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has exhibited interest in becoming John McCain's vice presidential running mate, a Republican strategist says.
Dan Senor revealed during Sunday's edition of ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that Rice has been seeking support to be considered for the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket this fall.
"Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this," Senor said.
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She’d be a disaster. Not because McCain couldn’t win with her (he could), but because she’d be one more knife in the back of conservatives in the party.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/010316.html
http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/west040408.php3
I've been an admirer of Rice for a long time. She inherited a horrible state-of-affairs. A remarkable individual.
I cannot see Condi bringing anything to the McCain ticket EXCEPT brains and a good but not too unique resume of past employment and education. McCain has to calculate the ticket value of the VP he chooses. I have no idea what his value criteria is but it has to include something more than race. This is where the campaign becomes more mathematical and McCain either increases his chances of winning enough votes or not. This election is so close all around that the VP selection can make or break McCains winning the Presidency. Also, guilty white liberals may say they want to vote for a non white person and even advocate a Republican but when they pull that lever it will be for a democRAT, white or black. Trust me. Independents cannot be counted on one way or another because that is why they do not declare for a party. They keep their options open and who knows what they will actually decide if they get around to voting at all.
I thought the talk on the blogs was BS.....but you never know......
That happens I’m gonna stay home or go fishing on election day. Let the chips fall.
I doubt if any of these critics have even 1/1000 of the ability or intelligence that Condi has.
She hasn’t been a disaster as SOS. She had a tough assignment and did well. She’d make a good VP, except for the Pro Life people who think they own the Republican party...They don’t.
If McCain & Condi are elected as a ticket, the GOP will suffer catastrophic losses in 2010, and the 2012 election will see a hard left-wing Democrat elected president with massive Democrat majorities in both houses. If McCain & Condi refashion the GOP as a party that excludes traditional conservatives, then by 2020 the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the U.S. Senate will be about the same as in the Massachusetts legislature.
A McCain-Condi administration would be the biggest disaster for conservatives since the GOP decided to go along with the New Deal circa 1933. They didn't fully recover for decades after that debacle. We'd never recover from a McCain-Condi administration, because they'd refashion the GOP as a socially liberal, open borders, multicultural party. American leftism would become self-perpetuating via our nation's demographics.
Obviously, you haven't seen some of Condi's more idiotic pronouncements concerning the Palestinians, all the while throwing the Israelis under the bus, a la Annapolis.
One other thought on this topic. Whoever is selected as Veep needs to be able to bring a strong incumbency candidacy in 4 and especially 8 years. We don’t need another free-for-all primary with no incumbent in the race.
And I’m not convinced Sec. Rice would bring that. I liked her in the NSA role, not so much in her Sec State role.
But one must look ahead on these things....
Ahh, the ol’ Peter Principle. One of the greatest sociology theories of the industrial age. This is actually a little different. My point is that she has already been promoted to a level of incompetence. I think The SecofState can do much more damage than a VP. The Secretary of State has much more purview than VP in reality, assuming the POTUS doesn’t leave office.
I think Sec Rice would be an outstanding choice for Veep. She has a total grasp of all that is wrong in today’s world and has done a super job being an intrim person of the international world, as the US representative. Her politics show in the many hours/years she has devoted to this country. McCain would be lucky if he had her on the ticket.
If McCaine is such a RINO, it wouldn’t matter if he picked the ghost of Reagan as his running mate. The running mate is about getting a few more states in the area the front man is weak. The VP (except in the case of Cheney who is obviously W’s consigliere) has very little authority over anything. Condi would grab a lot of people who have a desire to see a person of color or a woman on the ticket. It would be a strong ticket in terms of electability. As far a getting atrue conservative in the white House- good luck with that: Demographics, globalization and the media have made that nearly impossible. The only way a conservative would get elected would be after a major US city is vaporized.
What better way to cement McCain into a BUSH III ticket.
Alot of democrats are thinking of voting for McCain but with her on the ticket that won’t happen. Dems HATE Condi!!!!
I don’t know. I was thinking about this today and wondering if this proposal would be intended to assuage and deter the “white guilt” vote.
You make me sick.
You tell me. You're the one supporting her because of her skin color. Do you seriously believe anyone would ever think of her as VP material if she was a white male? Answer: NO! What has she accomplished that would make anyone desire to see her on the ticket? The best one can say is that she's carried out her boss George Bush's policies as Secretary of State, which is merely fulfilling her job requirements. That's the minimum one would expect from any cabinet official. Are Secretaries of State normally considered potential VPs or presidents? Last time I checked, they were not.
She would be just as talented regardless of her race or gender.
Exactly. And when was the last white SOS who was a political superstar with a large number of people demanding their elevation to the highest office in the land? Is Condi in some stratospheric league above and beyond every prior SOS? What has she done to put her at that level? Nothing. But because she's black, people like you give her extra points and call her extraordinary, a genius, and a superstar. Alexander Haig ran for president a few elections ago, but there was no groundswell of support for him and he dropped out pretty quickly. The SOS position is not usually considered a stepping stone to being on the national ticket.
But you don't see that, you only see your own perverted view of the world. I am getting so sick of people like you around FR who look at every black person who has accomplished something and makes a big deal about their race.
That's really cute. I'll bet my grandmother was afraid of black panhandlers, too, and that makes you cringe, doesn't it? Seriously, it's such a joke to see people such as yourself pushing candidates because of their race and then accusing people who question their qualifications of racism. Condi is too liberal, she has no governing experience, she's insulted the Jews, she's pandered to people who hate our guts, and she's accused our nation of having a "birth defect" in front of the entire world, including people who seek to kill us because of our (ahem) defects. Sorry, but she ain't qualified for the VP slot. BTW, when was the last time you saw anyone around here questioning Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court qualifications, or Walter Williams' economic qualifications? You've probably never seen it because they've actually performed at a phenomenal level in their respective jobs. So much for your claim that people around here make a big deal about race whenever a black person accomplishes something.
Of course you don't see yourself as a racist, you are just "stating things as they are".
Race card played. Thanks for making my point.
You make me sick.
Fine. Hopefully I made you think. If so, I accomplished something. In fact, I really accomplished something.
As to Condi Rice, you are right in only one respect that I give you credit for. She is not a good candidate not will she ever be, for one simple reason and it's not her mind.
She is not a politician and does not want to be one.
As to her credentials for SOS, I consider her class A. Her primary assets however, lie in the Eastern and Central Europe arena.
She may have gotten under a few people's skin regarding the Middle East, but she is doing what the president wants her to do in that regard. The ME is impossible and she knows it more than anyone.. We needed to let it stew for a couple more years before reinventing the peace baloney, but they pressured Bush to act sooner then he wanted to. Plus, his tern is about up.
She has a impossible and totally dismal chance of getting anything accomplished that will not self destruct within days or weeks. She damn well understand this and is only trying to build something to build on. Like wooden pallets that allow a large crane to keep from sinking in the mud. It's messy business but a needed first step.
The anti-American domestic and foreign leftists have joined the Binny Laden terrorist's and Iran to keep the ME in turmoil and there just is no chance of getting anything done until Iran is knocked back into the middle ages by Israel or the U.S...... and that's just the truth of it. This won't happen until they are close to a nuke or they have one or a dozen. Then the crap hit's the fan and there will be peace in the ME within a decade after.
Please excuse typos....This keyboard is giving me fits..
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