When Alan Keyes was running for president after being ambassador to the U. N. and having had a clear written and spoken record of positions on everything, people here howed bloody murder that his being inexperienced in public office disqualified him from consideration. Now we have this woman about whom we know very little and who has also not held public office being hysterically presented as the answer to everything. This is absolutely crazy.
First, allow me to say that I never criticized Alan Keyes because of his "inexperience".
Allow me to be polite: Alan Keyes is an egotistical blowhard. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher in a town run by cats. I don't care how right you think his positions are; any candidate who thunders at the masses as if he is delivering the Tablets from Mount Sinai has a problem. He hung around the primaries with McCain and Bush so he could get TV face time in the debates and natch, his show bombed. BTW, for me, the whole sweater thing was the final straw.
Believe me, we knew all that was necessary to know about Alan Keyes.
Condoleezza Rice is being promoted by me and others for two reasons:
1. She is as conservative a politician as I have seen come down the pike in some time, especially on RKBA issues. She is primarily libertarian on most of the issues of our time. Her position on national security is basically this: kill them before they kill us. In the meantime, form alliances when necessary to secure the national interest. This is all pretty basic stuff. You write as if she's some babe in the woods. She's not. And she's electable. Unlike Alan Keyes.
2. She can beat Hillary Clinton. None of the other ass-clowns in the Republican stable can, except perhaps Giuliani. Rudy cannot get nominated because he is so wildly pro-choice and pro-gun control that the farthest he'll get to the White House is Capitol Hill. Bill Frist is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Jeb Bush is a Bush and people won't want a Bush in 2008. JC Watts is leaving town. Steve Largent wants to be Oklahoma's governor. Trent Lott is a pansy. Tom Ridge is damaged goods. McCain is certifiable and has skin cancer. Bill Simon can't even get out of the starting gate against Grayout Davis. Ashcroft lost his election to a dead man. Christy Todd Whitman's legacy is the New Jersey Soprano Court. Pataki is a maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. What are we going to do? Dig up Richard Nixon? You know; tanned, rested, ready, and dead?
The cupboard is bare in 2008, my friend. We've got NOBODY once GW goes back to Crawford. Nobody except Condi. Thankfully, I think Karl Rove has figured this out.
Condi is not being promoted by me (I will speak for myself, here) because she is black. If I were promoting someone who was black for the sake of being black, Good God, I just might start thumping the tub for that crazy old battleaxe, Ezola Foster. But Condi is a woman, and I'm convinced that you need a woman to beat a woman, especially in 2008, when the idea of voting for a woman will be acceptable. There are just enough idiot women in this country to vote for the Hildebeast, and enough p----whipped men who think that Hillary Clinton is "intelligent" enough to be President. Don't believe me? Watch Alec Baldwin's mouth move.
Be Seeing You,
Chris