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Disciple, You have made your antipathy to Dr. Rice clear. In this thread, you have said that she should return to the private sector in 2008; you have equated her to “any yahoo who worked at State”; you suggest she is “enveloped in darkness”; and demeaned the SOS as a “wannbe NFL commissioner”.

We all understand, YOU DON’T LIKE HER! Fine. Don’t rationalize that transparent dislike by attempting to suggest that she lacks the qualifications to be President. By training, education and experience, she is eminently qualified to run for that office.

You don’t want to vote for her, ok. You would hate for her to be President- ok. But all your efforts in this thread to assure yourself that she will not be President, are to no avail. Her viability as a candidate is dependant on the criteria outlined in my post #22, and your personal dislike for her, does not enter that equation.

Now, I try to be civil on the Board and reply to all who post me. But here, I can’t continue discussing this matter with you- because I can’t help you. You want to end her candidacy here and now- and clearly, her candidacy solely resides on her own ambitions and future events. You can’t argue away her potential Presidency- this is mere futility.

Finally, if your desire is truly to be a Reagan disciple, you should do a search on the 11th commandment. Your apparent unfamiliarity with arguably his most famous pronouncement, calls into question your purported adherence to his legacy.

I equated YOUR criteria on her as viable candidate to "any yahoo at State." She herself said she would like to be NFL commissioner. She is enveloped in the darkness of Reagan's shadow because she cannot be pro-choice and carry a conservative card at the same time.

Your twisting of words reads like a Clinton press release.

I'm fully aware of the 11th commandment. That must have come after he publically critized president Nixon's promotion of denete policy with Russia. Even Reagan messed up sometimes.

I like Rice just fine - as NSA, as SoS, as NFL commissioner, as provost. Basically as anything except president. Never in all of these posts did I attack her personally or spoke of anything other than her record.

If you would like to avoid all that and accuse me of continual "personal dislike," toward her, then you are right you can't help me. Even if I wasn't looking for it in the first place.

Like I said a bunch of posts ago, good luck in Iowa.