Posted on 04/06/2008 4:20:07 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
ABCNews’ Mary Bruce Reports: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is actively courting the Vice Presidential nomination, according to Republican Strategist Dan Senor. “Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this,” Senor said this morning on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
According to Senor, Rice has been cozying up to the Republican elite. “There's this ritual in Washington, the Americans for Tax Reform, which is headed by Grover Norquist, he holds a weekly meeting of conservative leaders, about 100, 150 people, sort of inside, chattering, class types,” Senor explained. “They all typically get briefings from political conservative leaders. Ten days ago, they had an interesting visit. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The first time a Secretary of State has visited the Wednesday Meeting.”
Senor explained that Rice’s history in public office would make her a prime candidate, especially in light of Senator John McCain’s emphasis on experience throughout his campaign. “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. 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,” Senor said. “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.”
BS
Funny, two years ago we would be going gaga over this.
Now? Fergettabottit!!
Something tells me that McCain isn’t exactly going to want to be associated with too many members of the Bush administration.
Fred Thompson is no different than John McCain!
Great, another Get along Globalist.
As if I needed another reason to go third-party.
Hardly!
Not Grover , not Juan Hernandez , not nobody is going to tell McCain what to do .
At least Rice understands and supports the SECOND Amendments -- no registration, no bans of defensive weapons.
Fred Heads give it up! Not going to happen
Get over your own self.
I used to have a lot of respect for GEN Powell when he was CJCS but he showed us how worthless he really was as Sec. of State.
I’m always floored by these RINOS, like William Krystol, who swoon over Ms. Rice.
No one ever asks these swooners to explain what Condi Rice’s positions are on social issues, taxation, Supreme Court nominees etc. I’m afraid that she is well to the left of Free Republic dogma.
The Democrats are eating their own right now. Why in the world would McCain not pick a bonafide conservative running-mate to seal his election in November ?
IMO McCain will choose someone who can help bring conservatives in without alienating moderates, who has been thouroughly vetted (no surprises), and has credibility on economic issues adminstrative experience. Most importantly it needs to be someone with the gravitas to be taken seriously as a potential president given McCain’s age. If I had to put money on it, I would bet he will pick Romney.
Old and older.
Nope, it’s gonna be Graham cracker.
Just watch McCain prove me wrong by picking Condi for VP, but I don’t think he will put her on the ticket. I don’t see the benefit.
Borat Obama is not smart enough to ask her..
Thank God.. cause they would probably be elected..
Give it to her! She is the ORIGINAL owner of the “Surge” Strategy. She fought Dummy-Rummy tooth and nails and finally W came to his senses and the Iraq War was turned around.
Purist would commit suicide. So be it. Condi is SOLID Republican and good enough Conservative.
Think about it. Dems are going to get either Ovary or Ebony and they can’t decide which. Half of them would be heartbroken.
Condi combines the two!!! We got a winner here! C’mon Mac, be brave and be smart.
This is McCain’s election to win or lose. By adding Condi,
he will lose.
There are a ton of Democrats (and Repubs) that will not vote for “the woman” or “the black”, who are crossing over to McCain. This would send them all back. Just reality.
Now? Fergettabottit!!
Amazing isn't it! I think that there is no one who would satisfy some of these people.
If our Party does that, it is obviously wanting Obama to be our next president.
Ping
My point is that anyone with Rice as a running mate is going to lose.
What has she achieved in government?
Ferraro’s quote seems applicable here. Condi would be a joke if not for her skin shade.
She couldn’t pursue her ass and find it.
Agreed
Bump that big time.
NO! No McCain fan here, but picking Lindsey would be just beyond stupid.
Not only no to Condi-Clueless, but HELL NO!!!
This is nothing but the Republican Party trying to mess with the Democrats.
Condi isn’t seriously being considered. She would bring nothing.
I really don’t see that happening. I’m from SC and I don’t want Ms. Graham representing me, much less the entire country.
Romney is even more socially liberal and pro-abortion than McCain, as well as being a big spender. He’s a somewhat less disagreeable person, but I don’t see him as being a conservative solution by a long shot! And Thompson, whatever his virtues, is another old man with no energy. We don’t need that.
I think we have to look somewhere else. I would have been happy with Condi a couple of years ago, but State has eaten her brain and she sounds like another mushy pro-Arab liberal; in addition, she’s pro-abortion, although at least she’s been fairly quiet about it.
A few years ago this would have been a good move, but now the bloom is off the rose with Condi. As far as the great unwashed public is concerned, she is part and parcel of Bush’s “failure” (not my term, but the common perception) in Iraq. No, McCain needs someone who is far removed from Bush’s circle.
I like Fred Thompson but he’s nearly as old as Mac, and also has the health issue of cancer. Mac needs someone younger, more conservative, and healthier, who has not been overly associated with Bush. Who do we have...?
She sucks on foreign policy, so she’s immediately out of consideration, by my way of thinking. That’s my #1 issue. Foreign policy is much more than just where we send our troops and what we equipment them with, however....
Jihad Watch http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/009693.php "Condoleeza Rice, for various reasons, is deemed untouchable. She is The One Who Must Be Obeyed and Never Criticized. Nonsense. Her bullying of Israel is only part of it. But because it is so obviously based on an almost willful incomprehension of Islam, and of why the Arabs and Muslims have been engaged in a relentless campaign against that state, it is worth emphasizing.
Not understanding that no Infidel nation-state can possibly be contemplated by Arab Muslims, and particularly not one that is under the control of the much-despised yahudim (Jews), and that the size of Israel does not matter in the least, Rice keeps promoting, or parroting the idea of, the "two-state solution" (and we know it must be a "solution" because otherwise they would not have called it a "solution," now would they?). She does not understand that the divisions among "Palestinians" are only about means, and tactics, not about ultimate ends.
Rice’s ignorance is matched only by her incomprehension. She still thinks that territorial "compromise" is the path to peace – “compromise” in this case meaning continued Israeli surrender of territory to which it has a legal, historic and moral claim (including the claims under the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine, which she really should take the time to read and study. She should then also to read and study about the history of the non-Arabs and non-Muslims in what she seems to think is "the Arab world".
And because Rice does not understand what Islam is all about, she also does not understand that its menace will not be diminished in any way by the creation of a viable nation-state called Iraq. Such a state will not be a "Light Unto the Muslim Nations" and will do nothing to diminish the power of the Islamic jihad imperative.
You’re posting as “gunservative”, and actually say Condi would bring nothing to the ticket?
She’s pro-RKBA. Speaks 5 languages.
She helped end the cold war. She’s a Soviet expert (yes, the same Soviet Union which is returning)
Condi rocks! This is excellent!
Say, that’s a GREAT idea!
Because, you know, McMeMeMe doesn’t have enough cred with moderates and liberals!
Doesn’t match her previous statements concerning elective office.
oh brother...
And in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary, Condi is helping the arabs carve it out of existence. No thanks.
me too... she brings no additional votes to the ticket...
Condi “sucks on foreign policy”?? Say what??
Were you awake during the 1980’s?
Condi helped end the cold war.
She’s smarter than almost anyone else in Washington.
What’s with the whining hysteria on this board? Sheesh.
It’s not even educated complaining. It’s just hysteria.
Condi deserves better.
She has earned better.
Lighten up on her!
1. I don’t believe the story. Condi has shown no interest in politics other than being willing to serve as called.
2. McCain is a maverick and will pick someone he can relate to and get along with and help him win states. I am not sure how Condi helps that much.
I love Condi but this is going nowhere IMO.
i want someone who will make it a winning ticket... she does not bring that... i like her... i think she's smart... i think she's talented... but she would not add votes to this ticket...
I sit here in awe of you
Although to pick the samllest nit. According to McCartney and Wonder, It's "Ebony and Ovary"
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