Posted on 07/12/2012 5:24:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good—only the execution often left something to be desired.
Now the person who did much of the executing tops a list of names to be Mitt Romney's running mate. A mid-April CNN poll finds that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has unmatched name recognition and a favorable rating of 80% among GOP voters. She's also the person Republicans would most like to see on the ticket, with 26% to runner-up Rick Santorum's 21%. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tie for third place at 14%.
The political appeal of Romney-Rice is obvious. Here are two seasoned and reassuring presences who seem to complement each other in all the right ways. He's the business whiz; she's the foreign-policy wonk. His government experience is in the statehouse; hers in Washington and foreign capitals. He's the un-Obama; she's the un-Palin. He's the world's whitest white man; she isn't. That could even count for something if President Obama decides to dump Joe Biden for Hillary Clinton.
There's only one problem. Ms. Rice was a bad national security adviser and a bad secretary of state. She was on the wrong side of some of the administration's biggest internal policy fights. She had a tendency to flip-flop when it came to the president's core priorities and her political misjudgment more than once cost Mr. Bush dearly. She was a muddler of differences at the national security council. Her tenure at State was notable mainly for the degree to which the bureaucracy ran her, not the other way around.
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She’d be a great VP. For the Dems.
2008 Obama voter Rice, who later refused to say how she voted, revealed herself in her first public statements after Obama's 2008 election. Before she could formalize her "diplomatic" cover in refusals to answer and feigned neutrality, Rice exposed herself as another GOP fraud in her following first response :
YOUTUBE 11/05/2008 RICE STATEMENT ON OBAMA VICTORY (LINK):
"President elect Obama was inspirational and I'm certain he will continue to be."I transcribed her statement accurately but it is still CRITICAL that you view her demeanor, to make a judgement. This was the day after the election before she could sublimate her emotions beneath the cover of a more neutral and diplomatically flat response, as in the following."...this country... continues to surprise, it continues to renew itself, it continues to beat all odds and expectations. You just know that Americans are not going to be satisfied until they really do form that perfect union and while the perfect union may never be in sight, we keep working at it and trying. And I just want to close on a personal note, as an African-Americam, I'm especially proud."
12/28/2008 CBS INTERVIEW (LINK) * Note: CBS is now misdating this interview, but "that leaves office 23 days from now" in the introduction proves the earlier 12/28/2008 date. *
"There is a widely held belief in Washington, anyway, that you voted for Barack Obama," Braver said.Why call Obama's election a step toward a more "perfect union?""And as secretary of state, I'm going to keep my partisan or non-partisan views to myself on that," Rice said. "But I think all Americans were taken with the fact that we were able, after the long history that we've been through, that initial birth defect of slavery that we elected an African American."
What does the exuberance of her response and her unrestrainable smile tell you?
If the Obama's election made her "especially proud", do you think she went into the voting both and did pulled the lever to NOT become "especially proud" and NOT to "work" and "try" for a more "perfect union?"
I agree. Condi I am sure is a great person. But not the right person for VP, imho. Her government experience is not all that sterling.
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And add to that the thought that Romney said there will be NO academics in his administration...I think this Condi thing is a smoke screen.
(I think there is a much better chance that Romney's advisers have WSJ subscriptions than Zero's advisers.)
Well she’s got my support.
Most of us loved Colin Powell...until we got to know him. I hope race has no place in Romney’s choice of running mate. A good running mate is the only thing that will get me to vote for his RINO butt.
I also think that there are other jobs she’d rather have in a Romney administration than sitting around in a mansion at the Naval Observatory waiting for Romney to choke on a pretzel.
The poll appearing on Drudge today has her as the preferred choice by 65% of those participating. Let’s hope that this is all just a publicity stunt.
On top of everything else mentioned here, she was strongly and openly pro-abortion. We don’t need TWO baby killers on the GOP ticket.
This is affirmative action at its worst. Romney wants someone who is black and a woman. Never mind that it won’t take a single black vote away from Obama, and probably not many women, either. The GOP has got to be politically correct, even if it hurts them.
My most memorable memory is when she is doing this press conference for Reason A, only in the middle of it to blurt out that they caught the bad guys that were probing Obama’s State Dept. records. This was most likely the real reason she was doing the press conference. She was queuing to stay on as Secy of State for Obama. The travel perks are great and you get to say and do things like you’re the US President anyway.
Condi would be the anti-Palin.
In 2008 Sarah Palin pulled in enough conservative voters to prevent an Obama landslide.
In 2012 Condi would repulse enough conservative voters to give Obama a landslide.
I seem to recall that Condition is pro-abortion. Is my memory playing tricks? If so, Romney should choose someone pro-life since he is wobbly on abortion.
Gwjack
“She’d be a great VP. For the Dems.”
I suppose that an argument could be made that since Big Media and the Dims gave us Mitt Romney, then she WOULD be the Dim VP.
I don’t see it as happening, and I don’t see CR wanting to expose herself to ultra-racist Big Media and the Dims for the next four-and-a-half years.
... unless the Dims OWN her already.
“I agree. Condi I am sure is a great person. But not the right person for VP, imho. Her government experience is not all that sterling.”
Hmm, I do remember Big Media going nutso for her once upon a time, lauding her accomplishments AND that she is a “concert pianist” or something like that.
I’m kind of agreeing with my previous post that she WOULD be a Dim pick.
If Mitt goes for a woman, I hope it’s Jan Brewer - she has way more testosterone than he does, and she actually is a conservative.
Condi Rice needs to stay in academia - she is a RINO pointy head and very dangerous to the future of our country if she believes electing Barry Soetoro was a good thing.
Condi is smart, articulate, attractive, charming, loyal, black, and female. She is a perfect republican candidate for anything. She personally embraces some values that are not perfectly conservatively, but, unlike Powell, she manages to do her job without wearing her politics on her sleeve.
Ms. Rice will be a great VP. She will outsmart whoever happens to be sitting across the table from her. She will charm the press and the world.
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