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Could It Be Condi for VP?
The Rush Limbaugh Program ^ | 11 July 2011 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 07/11/2012 5:18:12 PM PDT by COBOL2Java

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RUSH: I've been thinking about something. There's a story I had in the Stack. I didn't get to this yesterday. It's a Reuters story, "Romney May Name Running Mate Early in Election Race." There have been names floating on this. There's Bob Portman in Ohio. There's Marco Rubio, who continually says it isn't gonna be him. Bobby Jindal. Governor Christie -- who may be talking himself out of it, if he was in there, but he's openly said that he would take it.

Well, he's openly said that he would seriously consider it. There are a number of names. Tim Pawlenty is considered one of the front-runners. So today Romney goes to the NAALCP convention. One of the names that is also on this list that shows up now and then but not in every story about it, is Condoleezza Rice. Now, I don't have any idea who Romney's gonna choose, but when I saw this story yesterday, "Romney May Name Running Mate Early in Election Race," I thought, "Why?"

This is awful early to name a VP.

Of course, the Reuters headline says "may name." But it's a fairly lengthy story about what the advantages in doing so could be, and they list the people that are possible. It mentions here, "Romney is also considering whether to name a woman, his wife, Ann, said." To the team of people that would select a running mate. And I've seen Condoleezza Rice's name mentioned off and on. Here goes Romney to the NAALCP. What are the odds that he would pick Condoleezza Rice next week, coming off of this speech to the NAALCP?

(interruption)

You think zero? Why?

(interruption)

Well, they all say they'll never do it! They all say they'll never do it. Every one of these people is saying that. Well, except Chris Christie. Paul Ryan's name is mention, and a lot of people look favorably at Paul Ryan. But, Rubio, for example, says, "There's no way I'm gonna do it!" They all say this. But then if they get the call, then this sense of duty overtakes them.

(interruption)

What if I got the call? (laughing) I'd ask, "Are you sane?" You know what my answer would be? "I'm not gonna take the pay cut." But I'm just not oriented towards that. I'm not diplomatic enough to be in government in any way, shape, manner, or form. You remember who was the head of Obama's selection team? It was Caroline Kennedy. Yeah, it was. She was right in there. But you watch the reaction that regime will have no matter who Romney picks. No matter who he picks, the criticism is going to be profound.

Of course, when Obama chose Biden, there was no criticism. He chose a lunatic. He chose a plagiarist. And now the guy, Biden, is out there telling sex jokes. Did you hear about this? I think we've got it in the Stack here. Biden. Who was he talking to? Was it an Hispanic group? He was talking to some group of people about how small the house was where he grew up and how thin the walls were and how his parents managed to "get away with it" nevertheless.

I kid you not. (laughing) Honestly! It was La Raza. Biden was talking to La Raza. He said (paraphrased), "We had all the ingredients: Small room, thin walls. You know, just like you." We do have the sound bite. Somebody tell me what number it is. I know it's there. Yeah, number eleven. Here it is. This is yesterday Las Vegas at the National Council of La Raza Luncheon.

BIDEN: I was raised in a... No Horatio Alger story, a normal story. A three-bedroom house, split level, in a new development, in the mid-fifties in Delaware. Those walls were awful thin. I wonder how the hell my parents did it, but that's a different story.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

BIDEN: I know you don't know anything about that!

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

BIDEN: I know none of you in your families have done the same thing!

RUSH: So here he is talking to the Hispanics saying (paraphrased), "Look, I grew up just like you did: A whole bunch of people in a cheap house with thin walls, and I don't know how my parents did it. I know none of you in your families have done the same thing." He's trying to share a commonality with 'em. (interruption) Snerdley, a lot of people think about their parents doing it, and they can't visualize it. But nobody talks about it! Certainly not vice presidents!

They don't go to groups, particularly La Raza, and say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Remember the car you came here in? Well, it's like the house you lived in. Well, it was the same for me, and I tell you: All of us were packed in there like sardines and the walls were very thin, and I don't know how my parents got away with it!" You know, if Romney chooses Condoleezza Rice, we're not gonna get anything like that from her as vice president. I was at the Horatio Alger dinner where she was inducted into the society a couple years ago.

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To: Iron Munro
"Why would she make a good candidate for VP?
Because she has black skin?
Because she is a female? No, because she can tell Putin to go to he11 in Russian.

101 posted on 07/12/2012 5:55:21 AM PDT by cookcounty (Kagan and Sotomayor side with Joe Wilson: -------Obama DID lie!)
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To: Impy; SeminoleCounty; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued
“She is easily the worst person who's name has been seriously mentioned.”

1,000,000,000% agree Impy! She f**king sucks. I would rather Hillary! than Rice.

Her and her “brutha” Colon Bowell need to stay where they put themselves: In the racist corner that they painted themselves in.

“Useful idiots” indeed.

102 posted on 07/12/2012 7:47:00 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The Glove don't fit.)
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To: left that other site; All
Condi for VP ?

you mean pro-abortion Condi, pro-affirmative action Condi ?, pro-Palestinian Condi ?

We need a REAL conservative on the ticket...Rice is a faux conservative like Colin Powell.....NO THANKS

103 posted on 07/12/2012 8:19:57 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: Arm_Bears
"In other words.. you can’t back up your statement"

No, those aren't the other words, I can back up my original opinion. Just ask your question in a literate way, apologize for your rude implication, and you will see how communication can get you the information you seek.


104 posted on 07/12/2012 8:51:49 AM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I was married to a state senator..thankfully not anymore.

Jerry Doyle is right about the after hours deals that are cut at the Capitol Grill on the Hill. Dems and Pubbies(fueled by Boehner’s rounds) get souced and what we would hear if we were flies on the wall would make our Rino hinky meters go off like a siren...

The “votes” on the House floor are for C-Span show.
The after dark smoozing slobbering love fests between “leaders” of both houses should alarm and infuriate us.
Alot of damage has already been done by Roberts. Some of the HC provisions will be repealed ...some will not.


105 posted on 07/12/2012 9:33:20 AM PDT by Mountain Mary (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; PhilCollins
I think by November, we'll probably have the GOP, Dem, Green, Constitution, and Libertarian party nominees for President on the ballot in Illinois. Those 5 parties get on the ballot in the majority of states, and Illinois will probably be one of them. Of course, the Madigan RAT goons COULD throw anyone off the ballot if they wanted to (using some ridiculous technicality), but they probably won't bother since they don't deem any candidate to be a threat to Obama winning Illinois.

I just checked the 2008 ballot in Crook County, and it seems we had quite a few candidates to pick from:

Barack Obama & Joe Biden (Democratic)
John McCain & Sarah Palin (Republican)
Cynthia McKinney & Rosa Clemente (Green Party)
Bob Barr & Wayne A. Root (Libertarian)
John Joseph Polachek & No Candidate (New Party)
Charles O. Baldwin & Darrell L. Castle (COI)
Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez (Independent)

Surprised Polachek made it on the ballot in Illinois. Same deal, he probably filed pretty questionable petitions (doesn't even have a running mate!), but nobody challenged him.

106 posted on 07/12/2012 10:10:09 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Illegals for Perry/Gingrich 2012 : Don't be "heartless"/ Be "humane")
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To: COBOL2Java

I hope not.

Last thing we need is a policy wonk that was educated and raised up through the ranks during the cold war.

That entire generation is so deeply invested, emotionally and intellectually, in the twin idiocies of containment and appeasement, that there’s no way they can be functionally competent in this day’s foreign policy needs.


107 posted on 07/12/2012 11:05:52 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: COBOL2Java
B A R F !

Condi is a global socialist.

108 posted on 07/12/2012 11:12:59 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: Hugin

Ryan is an establishment sellout.
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109 posted on 07/12/2012 11:17:07 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: BillyBoy; Impy

In Illinois, the Constitution Party presidential candidate, Virgil Goode, received an objection.


110 posted on 07/12/2012 3:47:56 PM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: COBOL2Java

This morning on Chicago WLS AM radio one of Obama’s voters states she doesn’t care if Obama murders someone she will vote for him no matter what.

Listen here:

A Tale of Two Callers...

Download this show

Listen
Caller Judy and caller Darnell have contrasting views on President Obama and the election.

http://wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2492824&spid=41818


111 posted on 07/13/2012 9:16:24 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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