Posted on 07/14/2012 4:13:04 PM PDT by STARWISE
*snip*
Now, the tactics. It is clear that Rice, despite protestations to the contrary, has political aspirations. She is on the lecture circuit and spoke at my alma mater—Claremont McKenna’s Res Publica Society. This is the same program that brought Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Mitt Romney. There was a meeting beforehand with top fundraisers at Claremont. Rice has also written two books post-Bush office, but unlike others, notably Rumsfeld and Cheney, the books reveal precious little, indicative that she is not yet finished in the public eye. They discuss her historic life as the child of segregated Birmingham, Alabama. It is historic and it is impressive.
It is the real black American experience, not the contrived, composite experience of Barack Obama.
Naming Rice protects Romney from the race question, which will surely be raised because of his Mormonism. It reminds people of his family’s commitment to civil rights (something he has long shared), and it allows him to speak to women. Besides, like with Healey, Romney doesn’t have to worry about being overshadowed by Rice.
It is not surprising in the least that Ann Romney endorsed Mia Love, the black Mormon candidate running for Congress in Utah, in late June. This is the only candidate that Ann Romney has endorsed. Why? It is simply likely that they have race on the mind.
In the same way, Ann’s statement about how the vice president is likely to be a woman shows a desire to appeal to female voters. There are no accidents in this campaign, and that trial balloon was certainly something that they had in mind.
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It likely won’t be Condi Rice. Her name is likely being bandied about to distract the media as to whom it actually turns out to be.
Why indeed, because it won’t be.
“Why didn’t he do it here? ((NAACP gathering)) Because he chose Rice. Romney’s statement that blacks would vote for him if they knew what was “in his heart” was the foreshadowing. By picking Rice, the thinking goes, he’ll show what’s in his heart.”
Because she did such an excellent job secretly agreeing to cooperate with Spain in taking Odyssey Marine’s find from it and giving it to Spain, in exchange for some stolen WWII loot that the United States government would then get to keep? (According to Wikileaks.)
um, cuz she's black?
hey condi, can we use you cuz you're black and you're a woman?
LOL— exactly
Blacks no longer have the political influence they once had, and most blacks would not change their vote to Republican anyway.
If Romney is interested in getting people to change their vote, he’d get a bigger bang for the buck by asking Susana Martinez to be his running mate.
We shall see...
Nost odious female after Michelle Obama, Suha Arafat and that Mugabe broad.
Smellable clean across the atlantic.
If Romney is too stupid to recognize that selecting Condi is not in his own best interest then he deserves to lose.
I’m not saying she is a performing monkey, but she does sing and play the piano and swims on command. She just might be!
Fat chance.
Yup and she will vote for Obama just like she did last time no thanks
[insert lesbian’s name here].
Justine Beeber
No way she is VP candidate.
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