Posted on 07/14/2012 4:13:04 PM PDT by STARWISE
What has changed? People here charge that she voted for Obama but I can't find proof of that anywhere. People also say she's pro-abortion and I can't find that anywhere either. Realize that I'm defining "pro-abortion" as somebody who advocates for and encourages the practice.
So why not go for the thumb in the eye of the NAACP, Shore up the base, and get the foreign policy cred and nominate Allen West?
What has changed the most over the past 10 years? Condi Rice or Free Republic?
I think Allen West would be a great choice, objectively speaking. He’s just as assertive as Christie, and even more accomplished.
Romney would also shore up any reluctant conservatives.
The only reason to pick Condi would be to guarantee a Romney loss and an Obama victory.
She was worthless as Secretary of State and would be just as worthless as VP - and that's saying a lot.
“clearly has political aspirations” ... not from everything the rest of us have read and heard. I think Condoleezza Rice is one of the more brilliant and talented people to ever serve this country. But she has been as crystal “clear” as General Sherman that if nominated she will not run and if elected she will not serve.
She’s a LESBIAN. It will come out. The results will not be good.
As there IS no perfection in humans, thus it’s impossible to achieve it, I sure can’t castigate her cruelly, especially given the chaos after 9/11 and the new security profile we had to assume. I believe they did the best they could in this new normal of asymmetrical warfare, and I’m so grateful for Pres. Bush and VP Cheney’s team that we survived such a horrendous blow as well as we did. Folks seem to forget what it was like in the days and months afterward ...
And, against ALL odds and predictions, there were no further attacks, praise God and the resolve of that team and our brave troops in so diligently safeguarding us, 24/7.
And now, hearing her Park City speech, if she were borderline on her ideological position, it appears that’s changed. Her words resounded with a striking urgency and fear, seeing and digesting the path of total, intentional weakening, across the board of this country, engineered by this monstrous radical. She sure wasn’t shy about it, and she sounded very sober and fearful ... and with good reason. When harsh reality finally smacks you .. whenever it does .. it strikes hard.
Rush has the details of her speech
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RICE: It is a narrative that is being pushed by our current president that “I’m doing poorly because you’re doing well.” That has never been the American narrative. Ours has never been a narrative of aggrievement, and ours has never been a narrative of entitlement. It has been one of empowerment. And that, too...
AUDIENCE: (applause)
RICE: And that, too, is why we need a change in Washington. We need a change in Washington because the essence of who we are as Americans is at stake.
RUSH: Yeah, the people that were there said, “This woman made it sound like the country is hanging by a thread, that we’re on the verge of going totally socialist.” They’re just not used to hearing her talk that way. When she says here that Obama is pushing this business, “I’m doing poor because you’re doing well,” she’s apparently shocked at this. I don’t know where she’s been, but she’s apparently shocked at it and got all revved up about it. That got everybody in the crowd revved up about it.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here is the second sound bite, Condoleezza Rice at the big Romney confab in Park City, Utah, June 22, 23, and 24.
RICE: Since the essence of who we are as Americans is at stake, so is the essence of what the international community may become. And don’t think for a minute that if we don’t lead, someone won’t. And that someone might be a country that doesn’t believe in free markets and free peoples. That is why it is time for all of us, in any way that we can, to mobilize, to get our act together, to storm Washington, DC, with somebody who understands that. (applause)
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/07/13/condoleezza_rice_morality_and_perspective
Personally, I think that is Romney's only hope of getting out the base. If he nominates a true small government VP then it would be a "for" vote rather than a "not the other guy" vote.
Rand Paul would be another option but the West - Biden debate would be most entertaining
There is no doubt in my mind Condi Rice voted for Obama in 2008. She refused to say who she was voting for and got all teary eyed talking about his victory. How you you put someone who voted for your opponent 4 years ago on the ticket as your VP? A Condi Rice choice would be insane and alienate the base. http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/2012/07/flashback-2008-condoleezza-rice-wont.html
That’s what I keep telling these people
I don’t know if she did, and I hear ya. Not being African-American, I wouldn’t know what that occasion would cause me to do if I were and allowed myself to get swept away by the sheer notable historic significance, but I sure know of plenty of over 50ish African Americans from friends and colleagues who’ve told me it was super monumental ... that they could say they’d voted for the first, blah blah blah.
If she did, and now has seen the terrifying truth and the light, as so many have finally .. who knows what that portends in her resolve once again to work to keep us and our wondrous and beautiful America free and safe from the evildoers.
Yep and it would be a very big mistake. Our country are tired of these old politicians and their snaky ways.
OK. So, she’s a woman, she’s black, and she’s a lesbian. That kills three birds with one stone. The Dems accuse the GOP of hating all three. We negate their whole argument.
It won’t be Condi. This is just a head fake to get the Dems off talking about Bain.
We both know the answer to that, but you can be banned for saying it.
I guess she succumbed to tribalism, which many of us do not feel. I work with a Jewish guy (and am in a carpool with him). He's conservative, but he would vote for Joe Lieberman in a heartbeat. I've tried to explain that Lieberman is a total lib and was only moderately conservative in supporting the WOT. In all else, he's a total lib. This guy was excited that McCain might pick Lieberman as his VP in 2008 (i would not have voted for McCain if he had). Never underestimate the power of tribalism in people who see themselves as traditionally downtrodden.
“Race on the mind”? That’s a new one.
I’ve not gotten as mad at Romney as some on this board, but this Rice talk is getting me plenty steamed.
I can still see her get all giggly and excited when GW made that senseless statement that Islam was a ROP back at the 2002 State of the Onion address.
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