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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is actively courting the vice presidential nomination, according to Republican strategists.
ABC News in the U.S. reported that Republican strategist Dan Senor said Ms Rice had been actively campaigning for the vice presidency.
Mr Senor was reported as saying on the This Week with George Stephanopoulos program that she “has been cozying up to the Republican elite”.
“There’s this ritual in Washington: The Americans for Tax Reform . . . holds a weekly meeting of conservative leaders - about 100, 150 people,” Mr Senor told the program. “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.”
Mr Senor said Ms Rice’s history in public office would make her a prime candidate.
It’s a great ad for Democrats: “9/11 and the clusterf#@k in Iraq happened under my watch and now you should make me one very old heartbeat away from being president!” It’s interesting, it has parallel overtones to the story that John McCain actively sought the vice presidency with John Kerry. And it certainly will offset the conventional wisdom that John McCain (and the GOP in general) is lacking diversity. But RawStory says “not so fast…”
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ok kewl, this will be like taking candy from a baby. All we have to do is ask”What exactly has she accomplished?”
nuthin, absolutely nuthin, say it again.
This would be a Dream ticket.
For the Democrats.
“I think it was called “Bin Laden determined to strike inside the US”.”
BRING IT ON!!
Our MasterbatingSelfMedia will just tune out to issues and turn this into a skin colour race…
i.e. If Barack (black man) puts Hillary (white woman) on the ticket vs. a white due and black woman.
There goes any actual coverage of issues.
This would be fantastic. I’d love to see Rice team up with McCain… Larry Craig would be better, of course, but I’ll take Rice.
If McCain becomes president he can send Rice down to Memphis each year for MLK Day…
It’s probably a good thing Barack isn’t Mongolian. The Repugnant Ones would have to go searching for a Mongolian woman to give balance to their old white guy.
Cheeeerist - can they be any more transparent?
“At least she don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, the c***.”
(variation on McPotty Mouth’s 1992 statments: “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***.“)
[Edited to staunch the flow of complaints in the in-box. For an example of another way to say it without saying it, see this post. Site Monitor]
The RRR will never accept her, unless she marries right away and proves her heterosexuality.
Dan Senor was bremer’s chief aide in iraq; there’s a guy with real credibility when it comes to identifying who can get things done.
Condi as running mate?
Ohpleaseohpleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!
Please do this.
This has got to be a joke. She’d be ripped to shreds.
Her trademarks: Arrogance, Indifference, Incompetence.
Dressing Up, Sucking Up, Fucking Up and Bailing Out:
The Role of Untethered Ambition in Academia, the Private Sector and Public “Service”.
(working title bio).
National Security Adviser - September 11, 2001.
Yes, Senator McCain! Please choose Condie! I think it would be awesome to really tie yourself up even further in Bush’s failed policies by hiring one of the movers and shakers in his administration and the failed Iraq war. Yes, be the maverick and show that you are McSame!
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This isn’t so much about getting her on the republican ticket as it is getting Hillary a consolation prize of Veep. Then shes one bullet away from the Presidency, and a neocon wet dream…Hillary having certain failure at cleanuing up Bush and Cheney’s fiasco. How else are they going to rebuild the base?
I guess wanting to be on the Republican ticket means you have to bow down before Grover Norquist and kiss his ring. That’ll weed out all but the most miserable brown-nosers - like Condi and Mitt.
Next, she would be making slip ups about McCain being her husband.
Two warmongers on the GOP ticket! Rice could drool about “regime change” for months just like she did in the run up of lies before the illegal invasion of Iraq. McWarmonger and RegimeChanger Rice, spreading freedom and “democracy” at gunpoint! Vote GOP in ‘08 and the world will just love America more than ever!
Rice is a war criminal along with the rest of the Dumbya Regime, a perfect candidate for the GOP.
The only reason she could be considered is because she is a woman and she is black. This could give them the (empty) image of republican diversity. At the same time it links McCain closer to the Bush administration. I don’t see this would do McCain any good. What voters would they win with diversity? The only way they can win is by scare tactics, sure can’t run on results.
“It’s a great ad for Democrats: “9/11 and the clusterf#@k in Iraq happened under my watch and now you should make me one very old heartbeat away from being president!”
I couldn’t agree more! This would be like manna from heaven!
This would scare the shit out of the dems, a black woman who has national security credentials, unlike the black man who does not….
Brad @ 10:
Tying himself up in Bushies failures seem to be winning him voters at the polls. You people should really, really, be careful what you wish for. Bushies government screwed up everything it touched, and still was re-elected with some 51 million Americuns voting for him. With the economy, the Iraqi fiasco, and every piece of legislation this government has implemented, the current Repuke McCain is STILL considered pretty much even odds to become Presidunce. Either Americans have extremely short attention spans, or voters are the dumbest sumbitches the world has ever known. This should be a landslide, even in the polls right now. Is it?
It’ll never happen. Do you think for a second that the Republicans don’t intend to run against THE BLACK MAN? It’s what they always fall back on. How will McCain do that with THE BLACK WOMAN chained to his bus?
If Rice runs and somehow mcCain wins. I say the old coot dies befor Valentines day 2009.
chris @ 19:
I know better,but I’m going to ask anyway. Tell me chris, what exactly has she accomplished? name one thing that she has succeeded in doing? just one.
What…Jeb bush not available?
mudshark @ 23:
She’s got a great shoe collection!
ConcernedCanuck @ 25:
LOL, thanks, I needed that.
Do repugs really think that blacks or women will vote for McGrampa if he picks Rice?
I’m sure that blacks and women know that she is a corrupt war criminal.
Please pick Rice, McGramps.
General Election McCain-Obama McCain-Clinton
National Obama +0.8 McCain +2.2
Pretty damn close. Add in a Condom-minimum, and McCain gets both the senile Hillary supporters AND the black supporters. Final score? Rethug Whitehouse.
mudshark @ 26:
It’s the only thing I’ve seen her do, except deny, lie, and basically globetrot. Not exactly a stellar resume for a woman that is supposedly so intelligent.
I would love to see an all-Black presidential ticket. Obama/Condi in 08. Such a ticket would be breathtakingly audacious and historic.
ConcernedCanuck @ 28:
Please…oh please…bring back the mafia.
abob @ 30:
I guess to each their own. I’d prefer to see a Jon Stewart/Lewis Black ticket.
ConcernedCanuck @ 28:
never gonna happen CC, not a snowballs chance in hell.So Far 28 mill dems have turned out,and I think the number for repubs was 10 mill.
MyGodBeatsYourGod @ 4:
I agree with this statement except the spelling of Masturbating. And the redundancy of MasturbatingSelf, but the Black/White thing will be the only thing the pundits will speak of.
abob @ 30:
The only time the true power brokers of USA would let that type of an Obamination take place is if the presidency where transformed into a more ceremonious role than it is now. You think you have a puppet democracy now…
mudshark @ 33:
Also remember though that it is just the primaries and not the general election. Polls is polls and as much as they are unreliable all the time, the current numbers are downright scary after Bush. It should not even be anywhere close in percentages. But it is. Unless something really huge happens, and as much as I despise the idea, it is looking like President McForeignPolicy. EEK!
Chris @ 19: Run a black republican with foreign policy experience against Obama? Brilliant, brilliant strategy! I mean it worked so well with Alan Keyes the first time you dumbasses tried it. No wonder you guys can’t win a war, balance a budget, find Osama, handle a hurricane, etc., etc.
abob @ 30:
I would just spill over with diversity love, who cares if they are qualified, it would be neat!!
“Ms. Rice, what are your duties as VP?”
“I don’t recall, but aren’t my shoes to die for?”
Because nothing says ‘breaking from the status quo’ like a member of the current Cabinet.
If it’s an Obama/Clinton ticket, I’d love to see Hillary take her apart in a Veep debate.
abarts @ 39:
“My thigh boots go right up to my testicles. Aren’t they priceless?”
Badger @ 41:
Hillary vs Condom in a debate? Good lord. My ears would bleed.
Shouldn’t the focus be on the ideas which make one diverse or not? Putting an old-fart warmonger next to a black female warmonger isn’t much diversity at all.
ConcernedCanuck @ 36:
with all due respect:). even if the numbers are of by 10 percent.that’s still a dem in the WH.
The two whitest people in the country! Is condescending lice counting on black people to support her? I don’t see any one outside the hard neo- turds voting for these two faced rats, if they tried to speak the truth it would get caught in their throat and they would keel over dead.
chris @ 19:
Yes Chris, can you name anything she’s acccomplished?
mudshark @ 45:
That depends. McCain beats Hillary everywhere according to RealClearPolitics. Scary. The numbers shouldn’t even be within 10 percent of each other. And Obama vs McCain would be so close, the Repubs could “steal” it. (Not that THAT would ever happen…….again)
god, i hope he picks her
and i hope that the msm gets off their butts and finally starts asking her the tuff questions that she wont be able to get around
John McLame’s ideal running mate? A heart specialist.
Ron @ 47:
Help route the Taliban in Afgan through wise National Security Advice, taking the fight to AQ in Iraq, should I go on?…
Ron @ 47: