And the weird thing about that is they all CLAIM to be staunch pro-life social conservatives, but they want a liberal RINO to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. They were adamantly against having Romney on the ticket because his record on social issues was "too liberal", but they had no qualms about having someone to his LEFT as his running mate. Bizarre stuff.
I've talked it over with Rice supporters and their reasoning is that she's a "natural leader" or something (they can't demonstrate what she did at the state dept. to "lead" though, last time I checked she was a disappointment), and they seem to be confused and think the Vice President would have the role of Ambassador to Russia and be in charge of "standing up to Putin" instead of presiding over the U.S. Senate and casting tie-breaking votes (where Rice's liberal views CERTAINLY would come into play)
Never going to understand conservatives who fawn over Rice, or Donald Trump for that matter.
My take on it is that the GOP has been inundated by liberals who abandoned the demoRATic party because it went communist. All that's left now is for conservatives to find a conservative voice (and another party).
No one is to the left of Romney, the real Romney.