JC for VP
Posted on 04/06/2008 2:34:37 PM PDT by kingattax
WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has exhibited interest in becoming John McCain's vice presidential running mate, a Republican strategist says.
Dan Senor revealed during Sunday's edition of ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that Rice has been seeking support to be considered for the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket this fall.
"Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this," Senor said.
The party strategist said Rice could represent an ideal vice presidential candidate when paired with the Arizona senator, who is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
"What the McCain campaign has to consider is whether or not they want to pick a total outsider, a fresh face, someone a lot younger than him, a governor who people aren't that familiar with," Senor said. "The challenge they're realizing is that they'll have to have to spend 30-45 days, which they won't have at that point, educating the American public about who this person is.
"The other category is someone who people instantly say, the second they see that announcement, I get it, that person could be president tomorrow. Condi Rice is an option."
that said, no thanks condi, please go find something else to do and stop bothering people with this nonsense.
Please, no!
Superbly qualified and an instant rebuttal to Hillary as Obama’s VP, or vice versa.
A good choice.
Bad idea!
I would like to see someone else for VP, but one thing is Absolutely Certain: McCain-Condi would make it impossible for any Demodog to win for the next 12 years.
If Rice is on the ticket I will not vote. I’ve been about to blow chunks since McCain has become the unofficial standard bearer and I had resigned myself however reluctantly to voting for him, but no Rice.
I like Rice for VP, though I would prefer Lynne Cheney.
That said, we could do a lot worse than Condi. At least she’s smart and not sleazy.
Wouldn’t be prudent. I love Condi. She is too liberal on the social issues.
Oy!
Interesting....but JC is a better choice. (Steve Largent was a better football player)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Watts
She doesn’t need to go there.
What an awful idea!!!
JC for VP
McCain/Rice = foreign aid extravaganza.
Michael Steele would be a great choice.
“no thanks condi”
Yes please go away. Tomorrow would be soon enough for me.
Condi has been taped a couple of dozen times saying she never wants to be president. Ever.
They will trot this recordings out if she joins the ticket.
It won’t be pretty.
However, I remember when there were many on this forum in her fan club.
How times have changes.
Can’t be true. She wants to be NFL commissioner but doesn’t have a desire to seek elected office.
If she truly is considering it, I say NO to CONDI. She likes the little game called “Palestine Poker” too much. Always stacks the decks against Israel.
Do they think we’ll vote for McCain because in VP Condi he has the equivalent of Rock over Scissors and Paper? (Black female over female and semi-Black)
Good Lord, if there wasn’t enough reasons not to vote for McCain... this one takes the cake.
I’d rather vote for a diseased slime-mold than any ticket with her on it.
Rice on the ticket would bust this 'race dialog' wide open.
Remember how the left treated her when she was named Sec State?
Remember those disgusting cartoons?
Rice on the ticket would tie the left into a Gordian knot of unprecedented proportions.
I'm down with that struggle..............
I’ve thought about this a lot. I liked her initially, and then she emerged as a Pali-supporter and, most recently, a whining “we were slaves once” apologist for black dysfunctionality. I don’t know what happened to her, but she went downhill after she joined State.
However, I’ve thought some more about it, and maybe if she were challenged, she wouldn’t be that bad. State has a terrible influence on anybody, and she’s smart enough to be able to improve.
The problem is that, given McCain’s age and health problems, it’s very likely that the VP may have to step in. So we have to look at this very closely.
I like Condi Rice as well, “but” what are her qualifications for the job of VP?
We are not Dhimmicrats who go weak at the knees over stuff we want to see, not what they have actually done.
As for kicking Israel around, sure verbally, at least something like Oslo is not going to be force fed to our Israeli friends, so let he talk loud and do nothing.
condi knows she could never be elected president so it looks to me like she’s trying to back-door her way in.
Why is she qualified, because she's black, female and Republican? She's never held elected office and she's wrong on almost every issue. She's not qualified.
Could you please point out Condi’s liberal traits.
thanks
And impossible for a conservative to even run. Screw that.
Horrible choice, too closely tied to a hated president, McCain would lose most cross-overs. Ridiculous choice.
“Superbly qualified”?
Doing a major job poorly doesn’t make you qualified for an even larger job.
Name a state he helps McCain pick up. There's no way Maryland votes Republican, and even if it did, it only has 10 electoral votes.
Watts, Steele, Rice - what is this, the “find a black VP” thread? I thought we were above this identity politics crap. I’m not sure Watts is all that bright; Condi is just fine with pushing Israel into the sea and letting the Palestinians run the Middle East.
Steele seems like an OK guy but I don’t trust him because he came out for, uh, McCain, way early. Funny how I consider support for the top of the ticket a major flaw in a potential VP...what a year.
I see folks trying to tie their favorite conservative to the likes of this McCain. Folks, please don’t contribute to putting a real conservative beside the likes of McCain. What an insult to them. Would you want to be associated with the trash policies this man is going to push? Why would the real conservative of your choice? Jeez, don’t you like them?
Anti-Israel, pro-abortion, and completely captured by the State Department bureaucracy.
I know what you mean. I almost hope he picks a complete turd of a running mate like Lieberman or Hagel, just so I don't have to be conflicted about not voting for him.
Not just no, but Hell no. I would stay home in Nov with Rice on the ticket.
I think she would be a great choice and McCain is just independent enough to select her.
As long as we hold Israel’s hand they will drag their feet forever and its time they agreed to the details of a Palestinian State.
John
great point
No Rice.
Anti-Israel, pro-abortion, and completely captured by the State Department bureaucracy.”
can you point me to anything that says she is pro-abortion?
For that matter does anyone what McCain believes about this stuff? Does he have actual beliefs?
I guess a black female would trump a white female or a black male.
never mind, I found her interview in Red State that shows her wrong position
A FOX News story by Jennifer D’Angelo (6/18/03) reported that, in 1999, Condoleezza Rice described herself to the San Francisco Chronicle (7/1/99) as a “pro-choice evangelical".
here's the URL for the above statement:
http://www.rnclife.org/faxnotes/2005/feb05/05-02-23.html
Rice has been a horrible and incompetent SoS. Not much better as NSA. Her likability index is very low.
She would not be able to campaign while SoS, because of the constant demands of that job. No way the Dims would agree to confirm a replacement before the election, which would leave the position empty.
Plus, she’s pro-choice and anti-Israel, which will not gain that ticket many conservative votes.
Conclusion: She’s a horrible pick. no way.
Bad choice.
What’s her qualifications, her skin color?
How very Obama of her.
Total unknown when viewed as a political candidate. Even she herself doesn’t know how she would hold up. If she runs for something on her own first and keeps it together she might consider this later.
Watts however should be considered on his own merits and on the dynamics/demographics driving this election. To ignore those factors would be irresponsible. The issue of race and that of gender deserve full discussion and attention regarding how the electorate winces. Everyone has their combined strengths. Race and or gender being one of those items in combination is a reality.
“I guess a black female would trump a white female or a black male.”
You won’t win the black vote away from Obama. If a female is deemed politically advantageous, I’d prefer Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Are you kidding? Nothing’s guarantees in politics (see Hillary’s campaign), and that team really wouldn’t even be that strong, since neither of them is great on the economy.
How times have changes.
True. There were people all over FR wooing, wowing, and slobbering over Rice. Where'd they go?
McCain-Rice 2008
The DEMOCRATIC Ticket
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