Posted on 02/24/2015 10:07:18 AM PST by smokingfrog
The Black Conservatives Fund wants to draft former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a Senate bid in 2016, as they argue she represents the GOP’s best chance to win a Senate seat in deep-blue California.
The group sent out a fundraising email to supporters Tuesday morning asking for donations to encourage the former diplomat, who now teaches at Stanford University, to run for the open seat.
Rice has repeatedly said she won’t run, but the latest Field Poll on the race showed she’d be a formidable candidate if she changes her mind. It found her with 49 percent of the vote, compared to 46 percent for Attorney General Kamala Harris, the Democrat now seen as the race’s front-runner.
“Condi is a true American success story. Her father was a minister. She’s an accomplished pianist, diplomat, and a role model for millions,” the Black Conservatives Fund says in its fundraising email.
“But the best news of all is that if she runs, she can steal California’s U.S. Senate seat from the Democrats.
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Not gonna happen...
She isn’t very Conservative, but I’d be good with her winning a Senate seat in California. That state needs saving and a true Conservative has no chance to win. It breaks my heart what the Marxists have done to that beautiful state.
She’s not a conservative.
If they are truly conservative, they should try drafting a conservative.
This is a waste of money and time, frankly. You’d just be pi$$ing your money away if you donated to that.
So they want a real black woman against a sorta-kinda-black woman.
Whatever one may think of Condoleezza Rice’s politics I’ve never seen anything by or about her which indicates that she would be interested in going back to the Washington, D.C. cesspit in any capacity whatsoever.
Conservatives? Not likely if they think she is up to snuff.
It breaks my heart what the Marxists have done to that beautiful state.
To our beautiful country!
That would be nice, but I’d be surprised if Condi did it. She was on the receiving end of some very nasty insults from Dems and in the media, that went not only unpunished but applauded by others in the media. I am glad to know there is such a thing as a “group of conservative blacks” period.
Obama voter no thanks
She wants Roger Goodell’s job and she might just have a shot at it with the way this past couple of years have gone!
Why in the hell does it have to be a “black” person? I just don’t get it. Why not vote for someone without considering their skin color, ala SAINT Martin Luther King, Jr.
They DO have the word CONSERVATIVE in their moniker, don’t they? What in the hell is “conservative” about her?
I think she’s a remarkable woman. Here we go again with the need for everyone republican to be lock step conservative on every issue.
I think her opinion on abortion is Pro-choice in the early stages of pregnancy, but she doesn’t brag about it.
All 4 of them?
Go Condi! (She is the only chance in wacko California)
Of course, this is based on ability and ideology, not race...(wink, wink)
Sitting in Stanford stadium before a game, a few years ago, Ms. Rice (former President/chancellor of Stanford) was introduced for the coin toss and she was practically booed out of the stadium. Of course Stanford is home of uber libs, but still it points to a defeat for Rice should she run. Rice = Bush in the minds of most in CA.
IIRC, she has made statements voicing a race-based support of Obama.
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