Posted on 07/03/2006 11:59:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
'Condistas' want Rice for president in 2008
By JULIE CARR SMYTH, AP Statehouse Correspondent 16 minutes ago
Their names are varied: Team Condi. Rice for America. The Draft Rice movement. Condistas.
But this disparate group of Internet gurus, politics junkies and Hillary haters shares a common goal: Elect Republican Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice president in 2008.
Mick Wright, a professional webmaster in Memphis, Tenn., was one of more than a dozen people to register a draft-Rice Web site in the year after President Bush was re-elected. He said he was driven by the "post-election blues."
"Once that was all over, you started thinking what's going to happen in the next election?" said Wright, a co-founder of http://www.condipundit.com. "The first one to come to mind as a viable candidate was Condoleezza Rice."
Similar Web sites from Seattle to West Sand Lake, N.Y., from Magna, Utah, to Cedarville, Ohio, have cropped up, touting Rice's credentials, marketing T-shirts, bobblehead dolls and "I Like Rice" buttons, and soliciting donations.
The Miami-based Americans for Dr. Rice political action committee has gone further, establishing state-level chapters in key political battleground states, including Ohio and Florida, and putting state chairs in place around the country. A second PAC, Rice for America, emerged in Greensboro, N.C., in July — though neither has yet reported any income or spending to the Federal Election Commission.
These activist groups declare their independence from the Republican Party, and from Rice herself — who says she has no intention of running.
Yet political experts say there is no question that party leaders have a hand in Rice's rise as a potential candidate, and that power brokers will watch closely this fall to see what happens to Rice's fellow black Republicans in high-profile races in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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We could do a LOT worse.
¡Si se puede!
Yo quiero Condoleezza Rice. :)
And probably will.
Clear the way ..., the Condi-haters will be here shortly. Me? I'd support her.
Be careful what you wish for.
A similar effort might have produced a President Colin Powell in 2000.
After his not-so-stellar tenure as SoS, many were glad he didn't prevail in 2000 either.
Be careful what you oppose.
We could end up with another Bob Dole.
Gingrich/Rice
Any republican aside from McCain, Giuliani, Rice and Hagel.
Rice/Gingrich :)
Really? Rice, to me anyway, seems exactly like a Bob Dole with no experience.
I'll sign on to that. Two candidates for pres, both of them women. Would a Republican vote for the wicked witch of the east just because they might have a lil racism in them? Maybe, but I don't think so. Would any of the usual black dems cross over and vote for Condi? I'm thinkin with the history that would make...yes some of them would and enough to make the difference. YMMV.
Really? Rice, to me anyway, seems exactly like a Bob Dole with no experience.
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Maybe I best 'splain myself.
I could have just offended a lot of Dole supporters, and if I did I apologize.
Bob Dole is a hero. He's a wonderful man. He deserves everything and all things good. But he's about as inspiring as a tree stump.
Condoleezza is the exact opposite.
The important first rule of elections is - first you have to win the vote.
That means, you get more of the other team voting for your "guy", than you lose from your own team over internecine squabbling about guest worker programs and port security deals gone awry.
Condi could be a major electrical source for the GOP.
We'd be very, very shortsighted and foolish not to encourage and build her for that role.
I get you.
I'm just not a Rice fan. She really seems like one of the "one world" types as shown by her support for the Law Of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
I just hope she meant what she said and doesn't run. Write-in campaigns never work so if she doesn't run, she won't be the nominee, problem solved.
There are worse republicans though (like the other three I listed above.)
She has already said that she misses academia. That is where she truly belongs.
I get you.
I'm just not a Rice fan. She really seems like one of the "one world" types as shown by her support for the Law Of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
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Ouch. Cite please?
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