Sarah Palin: Condoleezza Rice would be ‘wonderful’

Politico ^ | 7/13/12 6:59 AM EDT | KEVIN ROBILLARD

[fluorescence]

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the last GOP running mate, predicted former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would make a “wonderful” vice president for Mitt Romney.

“I think that Condoleezza Rice would be a wonderful vice president, and she certainly has much more experience than our sitting president does today,” Palin said Thursday night on Fox News’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

Heck yes

Allen West for VP-a true American conservative!

[EyeGuy]

Rice or Rubio as VP = Race pandering.

Just what we need MORE of in this downwardly spiraling country....

[Zionist Conspirator]

Et tu, Sarah? We're doomed!

Everyone please vote Republican down ticket!

[USCG SimTech]

Heck yes Allen West for VP-a true American conservative!

Rice will split the black vote up and swing the womans vote around. Win. Done. Except for a lot of men that won't vote for a woman regardless. Lose some votes to gain many votes.

[Lazamataz]

The only thing that this pick would have going for it, is that it would do the liberal Equal Opportunity thing one better.

"I will raise your black man, with a black WOMAN!"

Other than that it's a bust. Condi describes herself as a 'moderate republican' (read: old-style Democrat). Her positions are here.M Only one I saw that was 100% on my side was the gun control position.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The problem with Condi is that it makes it Obama vs Bush

The problem with Condi is that she is an anti-Israel fanatic. What about all those Jewish votes Mitt was going to pick up? Now they'll have an excuse to stick with Obama.

[trisham]

Sarah is very kind.

[SMARTY]

For sure, she has broad foreign policy experience.

Other world leaders know her and have worked with her.

She would be very qualified in that regard. Also, there is NO question about HER citizenship, education, personal associations...etc. :)

[gov_bean_ counter]

... meanwhile too many of the thinking Freepers have left the building.

[VikingMom]

“Watch the video. Sarah is definitely not enthusiastic about Rice. She then followed up that the team should be PRO LIFE.”

Thank you for the heads-up. Just reading the article - without seeing the actual video - had me very worried, but I think you are totally correct in your assessment. If Sarah had come out right away and said “No Way!” to Condi the press would have spun it into a big fight and sour grapes and who knows what else....

I hope and pray this is just a trial balloon and that Romney doesn’t pick Rice. It would be a disaster and would guarantee Obama’s re-election.

[stuartcr]

Blasphemy!!!

[Fiji Hill]

If he wants to win the White House, it is imperative that Romney reach out to the Republican Party's conservative wing. It is the party's grassroots conservatives--not the country-club "moderates"--that walk precincts, man phone banks and staff the Election Day Victory Squads. Republican presidential standard bearers who ignore or snub the party's conservatives--think Dewey in 1948 or Nixon in 1960--tend to lose.

Picking an Obama-supporting pro-abort as a running mate would be a big-time snub to the party's conservatives.

[Tribune7]

It would be a bad choice but it doesn't matter.

Mitt could pick Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley and I'd still vote for him.

Fire 0.

[stuartcr]

I agree. Lots of people thought Kaine would be against the death penalty when he was gov of VA, but he wasn’t even though he had publicly said he was against it.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I agree 100%. Some dipstick posted yesterday that West needs "Executive experience" as a governor so he can work with formulating and executing budgets and having to take responsibility for his decisions.

I'm thinking WTH???

New tagline...

[HereInTheHeartland]

Well they will try.
But you can't let your opponent dictate what you believe or say.
Screw them....

[GlockThe Vote]

If mittens wants a woman - Susan Martinez would be my choice.

She is a down to earth gov who is getting it done.

[kabar]

Sarah put her foot in her mouth. Condi is no conservative. She is "mildly pro-choice." Rumsfeld disembowled her in his book. She slobbered all over Obama when he was elected. She didn't endorse McCain in 2008.

Rice has never run for elected office. Her executive qualifications are suspect. We want her a heartbeat away from the Presidency? Romney needs to select a Conservative and someone who will inspire confidence that they can assume the Presidency. Token picks like Rice are what got us into this mess under our first Affirmative Action President.

[dfwgator]

But you can't let your opponent dictate what you believe or say.

That's the GOP National Pastime.

[AuntB]

“I hthought Sarah was pro-life.”

Yeah, well, sooner or later people will see Sarah’s true colors...she’s a ‘team’ player...and it ain’t the conservative team!

Don’t be fooled by Rice! She’s the one who went to Mexico and gave illegal aliens Social Security! She’s the worst kind of globalist/elitist and was NEVER conservative! She likes the Kyoto treaty!
She is ALL about amnesty! Do some research before you swallow this BS!