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Rice appeals to a lot of Freepers, including me, but I think there are problems with her electability: (1) she has never held an elective office; (2) she is black and there is still a racist element that will vote against her for that reason alone - and some of those people are nominal Republicans; and (3) she is smart in a "brainy" way that scares some people. One reason that the anti-Bork campaign was so successful was that Bork was brainy and serious, and that scared the soccer moms, made him seem sinister rather than smart. And Rice has a little of that Borkian quality that might turn-off some voters.

Hold your judgments until after she presents her case to the Commission.

She will surely discredit Clarke's "testimony" (perjury) and vindicate the Bush White house completely. The media will have no room for spin either because of her ability to spell out things so clearly, there will be no double spaces for the media to write any assumptions over the top of her testimony.

Clarke is basing his entire book on the assumption that the President ordered him to fabricate a report to justify a war, based on what he interpreted as a tone of voice or body language. His assumptions were then raised to the level of fact by the media.

Ms. Rice will stun them to the degree that their credibility will be worthless to any future B.S. they try to sell the public from here on out.