Posted on 07/12/2012 4:37:05 PM PDT by kristinn
**Exclusive**
Late Thursday evening, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign launched a new fundraising drive, 'Meet The VP' -- just as Romney himself has narrowed the field of candidates to a handful, sources reveal.
And a surprise name is now near the top of the list: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice!
The timing of the announcement is now set for 'coming weeks'.
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It was Condi who received two standing ovations at Romney's Utah retreat a few weeks ago, and everyone left with her name on their lips.
Rice made an extended argument for American leadership in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
The best moment on television was on an old episode of hannity and colmes when colmes called out Morris on the laundry list of things that he predicted were wrong and the fact that he is never ever ever ever ever ever with right about anything.
Man I don’t think I’ve ever seen morris so pissed off in my life.
Chris Christie is for amnesty for illegal immigrants, isn’t conservative enough on social issues, and the left will, assiduously, make fun of Chris Christie being fat.
Christie is in zero good physical shape or health to withstand a national campaign for 3 months. 0 chance it is him.
31 million hits a day at his site and only 179,412 votes in the condi poll.
What’s next?
George Soros for Secretary of the Treasury.
Van Jones for Labor Secretary.
Colin Powell for Secretary of Defense.
Janeane Garofalo for Hollywood Liaison.
Allen West would be the best choice for VP.
At least, vote for the most conservative candidates in all other political offices, all the way down to the most local levels of political office, and then, repeat doing so, at each and every election. Staying home during elections doesn’t advance conservatism.
Matt Drudge has a long history of floating trial balloons for the Romney campaign and I think we need to take this one seriously. At minimum, I believe this indicates an effort by either Romney or Drudge or a faction of Romney's campaign to test the waters to see how conservative Republicans, establishment Republicans, and Democrats will react. Romney has already reached out to RedState and other anti-Romney conservatives on the web, and this thread may well be monitored by the Romney campaign for an idea of how anti-Romney Republicans are thinking.
So here's my take, for whatever it's worth.
The sad thing is Condoleeza Rice, despite all her problems, may well be better than other people to whom Romney is likely to give serious consideration. We could do a lot worse, and probably will if Rice means what she says about refusing a VP post.
Rice is far from my first choice for the VP slot, but I could live with Rice as a vice-president if the person at the top of the ticket were a strong conservative on social issues who didn't have much foreign policy or national defense experience, and if it were clear to everyone that Rice was being picked to “balance the ticket” socially with a person who has fairly conservative national security and foreign policy credentials.
I believe Rice could have been a good (or at least a tolerable) VP pick for lots of Republicans who ran for president this year. Let's give credit where credit is due — she does provide foreign policy and national security experience on the ticket, experience which Romney does not have in his background as governor and as a businessman.
What I don't see is how adding Rice to the ticket does anything to help Romney attract liberal or moderate votes, or solve his problem with conservatives who don't trust him.
So why do this?
I see two possibilities.
First, Romney may be trying a divide-and-conquer strategy between social-issues conservatives who don't trust Romney and national defense conservatives who don't trust Romney. That could work to some extent.
Second, maybe Romney is preparing a pre-emptive strike in case Obama replaces Biden with Hillary Clinton as his VP. That's the only other political rationale I can see for this trial balloon being floated.
I do not want to see a Condoleeza Rice-Hillary Clinton race in 2016. I fear that will happen if Rice is the Republican nominee for VP this year. Four years from now I could live with Rice as a complement to a Republican presidential candidate who is a strong social issues conservative — but as Romney's VP, I think she's not going to help him very much.
Somebody show me where I'm wrong.
If Van Jones like it... Tells me it’s wrong!!! No Condi please!
You can’t win if you don’t play your best players. NO Condi please!
Chris Christie VP theme song:
Your butt is wide, well mine is too
Just watch your mouth or I’ll sit on you
The word is out, better treat me right
‘Cause I’m the king of cellulite
Ham on, ham on, ham on whole wheat, all right
My zippers bust, my buckles break
I’m too much man for you to take
The pavement cracks when I fall down
I’ve got more chins than Chinatown
Well, I’ve never used a phone booth
And I’ve never seen my toes
When I’m goin’ to the movies
I take up seven rows
Because I’m fat, I’m fat, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, come on you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
Don’t you call me pudgy, portly or stout
Just now tell me once again who’s fat
When I walk out to get my mail
It measures on the Richter scale
Down at the beach I’m a lucky man
I’m the only one who gets a tan
If I have one more pie a la mode
I’m gonna need my own zip code
When you’re only having seconds
I’m having twenty-thirds
When I go to get my shoes shined
I gotta take their word
Because I’m fat, I’m fat, sha mone
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
And my shadow weighs forty-two pounds
Lemme tell you once again who’s fat
If you see me comin’ your way
Better give me plenty space
If I tell you that I’m hungry
Then won’t you feed my face
Because I’m fat, I’m fat, sha mone
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it, you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
Woo woo woo, when I sit around the house
I really sit around the house
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know, you know, you know, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
And you know all by myself I’m a crowd
Lemme tell you once again
You know I’m huge, I’m fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, you know, hoo
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it, you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
And the whole world knows I’m fat and I’m proud
Just tell me once again who’s fat
Major LOL!
It doesn't matter whether they're fools or not. Romney needs to balance the ticket with a pro-life conservative or he's toast.
It’s not attractive to be so bitter.
Hopefully, both, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party will not exist by 2116.
“It doesn’t matter whether they’re fools or not. Romney needs to balance the ticket with a pro-life conservative or he’s toast.”
If they’re too stupid to recognize the critical importance of the down-ticket races they don’t deserve to be catered to.
Big mistake.
A Harriet Miers pick.
Romney needs to pick a conservative.
Where specifically is stated that Rice voted for Obama...? It is stated here by a couple of people, but where is the proof.
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