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BREAKING: Condi Rice Flirts With VP Possibility

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Posted by Mike 2008-03-26 16:38|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 She seemed vastly more interested in becoming NFL commish. Goddell seems pretty young, though, so maybe she had a change o' heart.

Posted by Shaiper Squank3439 2008-03-26 16:46|| 2008-03-26 16:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Something tells me that if you can be President of the Senate and deal with those egos, you're probably a shoe in for the Commish.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-26 17:06|| 2008-03-26 17:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Excuse me if I don't do cartwheels.

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-26 17:16|| 2008-03-26 17:16|| Front Page Top

#4 shes a real christian, though, aint she? might help with the theocon crowd, without scaring centrists like me. Wont help with the supply siders, but are they gonna like Obama? And the ultraneocons, the folks like here who think Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan are RINO traitors, hes not gonna reach them anyway.

Also that would free him up to go after Obama hard on stuff like Rev Wright, without being called racist.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-03-26 17:20|| 2008-03-26 17:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Plus it would drive the hard left stark raving mad. And Johnny Mac does have a cruel streak.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-03-26 17:48|| 2008-03-26 17:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Plus it would drive the hard left stark raving mad.

They are already foaming-at-the-mouth mad.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-03-26 18:12|| 2008-03-26 18:12|| Front Page Top

#7 she's been proven as a state dept squish, and won't do anything to alleviate conservative concerns over Maverick. Given his speech today, he seems to think he's got the Right with nowhere to go but with him, and is sliding left to capture independents. A little early, Johnny-boy. I want a conservative (and a lot younger) VP that I can trust to balance McAmnesty's worst impulses

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-26 18:30|| 2008-03-26 18:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Candidate McCain seems pretty strongly pro-Israel. Would he be happy with a vice president who sees the Palestinians as dark-skinned victims of the Israeli KKK? Would she?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-26 18:30|| 2008-03-26 18:30|| Front Page Top

#9 If HIllary won the nomination for the Dems a Condi VP slot would certainly confuse many Democratic voters who already seem somewhat positive towards McCain.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-03-26 18:46|| 2008-03-26 18:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Dr. Rice is a "Vulcan", a brain. And while it is not obvious what she has done at State, the media assumed "turn around", from her being a seriously hard-assed National Security Adviser to suddenly becoming a squishy SecState, is a stretch.

Not that we will ever know what she really did at State, though. She follows orders.

However, she would be terrific as an appointed VP, but less so as an elected VP. An elected VP is to balance the ticket, so McCain would want to choose a popular conservative, most likely a governor. It would not really be his choice, but it matters less because the VP is usually unimportant.

But, if he selected someone who was like a Medieval Pope, who would die 10 minutes after taking office, Rice would be perfect. Neither the House or Senate would dare to refuse the nomination, though a few, *ahem*, niggardly Democrats would try.

I was rooting for Dick Cheney to step down during Bush's second term, for the last year, claiming health reasons, just for the pure political enjoyment of seeing Rice as VP. But, I guess, it was not to be. Pity.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-26 19:01|| 2008-03-26 19:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Rice has completely underwhelmed me as Sec of State. I think her stock has fallen to the point that her only positives are her gender and race. Not a strong choice, rather a response-in-kind to the dumocrat candidates. A pox on all of them.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-03-26 19:42|| 2008-03-26 19:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Anybody taking odds Mac is booed at the RNC?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-26 19:55|| 2008-03-26 19:55|| Front Page Top

#13 The idea of CR to balance/confuse any Donk race issues is a good one, but have to agree with limpwrist SecState job..... More appealing than any other Trunk however IMHO

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