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Condi: The should-be face of the GOP
Fortune ^ | September 22, 2009 | Nina Easton

Posted on 09/22/2009 10:29:09 AM PDT by Lorianne

She's smart. She's experienced. She's worldly. Republican strategists worried about their party's future should take heed. ___ Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you. The Republican Party, which mustered a thumbs-up from only 38% of voters in last week's Bloomberg poll, sorely needs to brush up on the very rule it counsels in candidate-training sessions.

To skeptics in search of a political home, the GOP's image has devolved into that of a minority collection of name-calling, "no"-saying, backward-looking, talk-show bullying cranks -- a definition gleefully perpetuated by Democratic pols. So next time the eloquent and elegant figure of Condoleezza Rice strides onto a stage, GOP strategists worried about their party's future should pull out their notebooks.

I interviewed Rice onstage last week on the closing day of Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Summit, where she achieved a star-turn -- and did so while mounting a vigorous defense of former President Bush's oft-vilified foreign policy, and delivering a pointed critique of President Obama and congressional Democrats.

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"It's that simple," she declared, "if you want another terrorist attack in the U.S., abandon Afghanistan."

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: condi; condoleezzarice; rice; roommateproblems
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To: Lorianne

i love condi


21 posted on 09/22/2009 10:42:53 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Lorianne
We all had big hopes for Condi as well as for Powell (maybe less so) and neither one took off despite being handed high praise and ideal launching pads.

I think that, instead of hammering on the GOP = racist theme, both the media and the GOP would be better served looking into just why one proved to be far different than advertised and why the other simply never seemed to want another step up.

22 posted on 09/22/2009 10:43:33 AM PDT by norton
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To: Lorianne; All

Keep in mind, I did not write the headline to this.
We are required to post the actual headline of stories that are posted.

The headline has nothing to do with the article or the embedded inteview. To those just responding to the headline, you’re missing the actual content.

The interview embedded in this link is very worthwhile listening to. I recommend it.


23 posted on 09/22/2009 10:45:58 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Condi is, uuuuuuuuuuh, the uuuuuuuuuh, worst, uuuuuuuuuuuhh, speaker, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh, that I uuuuuuuuuuuhhh, have ever uuuuuuuuuuuh, heard.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuh, pass.


24 posted on 09/22/2009 10:46:05 AM PDT by chris37
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To: Lorianne

When CNN endorses a person for the GOP, they MUST be laced with arsenic or cyanide.


25 posted on 09/22/2009 10:46:15 AM PDT by J40000
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To: Lorianne

Rice? No thank you. If people like her remain the “face of the GOP”, I know I’ll no longer vote Republican.


26 posted on 09/22/2009 10:47:24 AM PDT by SandWMan ( A riot ist an ugly sing, und, I sink it's about time zat ve had vone!)
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To: Lorianne

She’s smart. She’s serious. She wants Israel to give away everything to the Palestinians.


27 posted on 09/22/2009 10:48:03 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Lorianne

It’s always amusing to see who liberals prefer as the “face” of the Republican party.


28 posted on 09/22/2009 10:48:10 AM PDT by scory
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To: Lorianne
[ She's smart. She's experienced. She's worldly. ]

She also has a horn on her NOSE... Aunt Esther imitating John McLame..

29 posted on 09/22/2009 10:49:23 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: NonValueAdded

PS it is a great statement, though. Full props to Condi for making it.


30 posted on 09/22/2009 10:51:08 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: dalebert

I love her too, but recognize she like colon has never faced an electorate. Meaning her views are unknown until she subjects them to a population. I believe she is from CA, it would be a good time for a competent conservative to run for something in CA (i.e., Senate, Congress, State Governor, etc...) My guess is she is an administrator not a legislator.


31 posted on 09/22/2009 10:52:29 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Lorianne
Condi: The should-be face of the GOP

Is this really from The Onion?

She was a total failure as Secretary Of State.
But then it is the new philosophy to reward failure and punish success.

And Neo-Republicans want to be with the latest fads, right?


32 posted on 09/22/2009 10:53:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat." - Claire Wolfe)
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To: GraceG

Thomas Sowell would be a great choice to head the RNC!


33 posted on 09/22/2009 10:53:27 AM PDT by kaizen
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To: Lorianne

I don’t agree with Condi on a good many things, but she could teach that piece of sh*t Powell a thing or two about loyalty. I haven’t heard her trash Bush or anybody else in the administration since she’s left. She gets points for that from me.


34 posted on 09/22/2009 10:53:41 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Lorianne

If she were pro-life, maybe. Sadly, she has described herself a mildly pro-baby killing...I mean choice.


35 posted on 09/22/2009 10:57:46 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Lorianne
""It's that simple," she declared, "if you want another terrorist attack in the U.S., abandon Afghanistan." "

and look for mushroom clouds in Iraq?

36 posted on 09/22/2009 10:58:59 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Lorianne

Shut up Nina.

The intellectual elite have put us in the crapper....they make their living off of stealing our earnings.

They should all retire.......hang.


37 posted on 09/22/2009 10:59:39 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( Reagan said, "When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.")
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To: Lorianne

I think she had the inside information that the fix for the illegal alien usurper in the W.H. was in. Therefore she had no chance and no interests of running!!!


38 posted on 09/22/2009 10:59:47 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Lorianne; All
Someone please post the guy with the "Oh please not this *hit again".

We've been through this stupidity before. A few years back many of us wanted Condi Rice to come back to California and run for Senate so we could get rid of the awful Barbara Boxer. She refused. She would have been a strong candidate and I would have paid good money to see her destroy Barbara Boxer in a debate. It would have been a slaughter.

Many people were pushing her for president, believe it or not. We've seen what happens when we put in someone who doesn't have much of a political track record.

I'm all in favor of Rice running for Senate in the next few years so we can get rid of Boxer or even Feinstein. This is where she should start.
39 posted on 09/22/2009 11:00:39 AM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: Lorianne

I’m happy for Condi to be a face of the GOP. She’s more moderate than the base, but I’ve never heard her diss conservatives. If moderates want to be part of the GOP, that’s fine, but they should understand that the folks who actually VOTE are much more likely to be conservative. Of course, that fact is what most drives the MSM nuts!


40 posted on 09/22/2009 11:03:53 AM PDT by SuziQ
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