I am afraid you are wrong, and it is because of her face though not in the way so many people suspect. As a presidential candidate, with a serious chance of winning, she will be on the cover of at least one major magazine every week. Not only that, she will be on the morning talk shows at least twice a week, and the softball questions will barely even make the net, much less affect the campaign. GWB will be all but ignored by the media, except of course when there is a problem to which the answer will be "If only we had a woman at the helm, she could solve everything!"
None of billy jeff's problems will follow her, because after all, she just wasn't in charge. It was something he did, and something she won't.
I really think GWB should have directed Ashcroft to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law upon taking office. There is an old saying about if you are going to kill the king, you better make sure he is dead. GWB let the king live.
You get the 'Sage' award, Brad!..............FRegards
Anything bad that happened on that treasonous bastard's watch won't stick to her because she will say she was not in charge and tried to stop it (and getting revenge against him while she's at it.)
Calif., NY, Mass., NJ., the rest of the NE etc.. are in the bag. She is only going to have to win one state that Gore did not to beat GW. There will be even more vote fraud (I think the Clinton's did not really help Gore because they wanted Hillary to win in 2004), they will have more money, soccer moms and college age woman will come out in droves, etc..
While I think that GW would kick her ass right now, 2004 is a long way off. Let the war on terror take a bad turn, another 2 or 3 terror attacks take place at home (helped by the Clintonistas to get in and carry out the ops)or have the economy take a downturn and GW is toast.
Don't think for a second that the witch doesn't look out on the horizon and sees Condi in 2008. She's got a much better chance against GW in 2004.
You're right in that you'd have to think that the media will probably get behind her.