Condoleezza VP?

[bdude]

An interesting blurb mentioned on Maher's show. Could this be a winning ticket against Obama?

 

[Jaskalas]

McCains weaknesses will not be overcome by any VP for any demographic.

 

[chowderhead]

The Iraq war is an albatross around the neck of anybody associated with the Bush Administrration. She is single, pro-choice and has limited economic experience and no natural base. She isn't the best speaker in the word and has no campaign experience. She would be a two-fer ... black and a woman but I doubt she would be considered.

 

[nageov3t]

she doesn't help McCain in his effort to bring conservatives to the polls, though I think she'd make a good post-election VP.

I don't think she'd want the job, though.

 

[StageLeft]

Seems like a good way to scare away voters to me. It would be like getting cheney to be VP, it's a no win.

 

[Tab]

It might make some conservatives happy however I don't think McCain needs any baggage from the Bush Administration...

 

[dawp]

I think she would kill any chances McCain might have as stated previously, a lot of voters would not want any hold overs from the previous administration. AND it going to take a while to purge the government of all Bush's appointments. only then will we see true improvements.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I think Romney dropped out hoping to grab the VP nom... He probably figures that McC is old enough to give him a shot at the oval office before long...

 

[GroundedSailor]

No way will she help. She has too much baggage from the previous administration - still current in peoples memory - which will effectively kill any chance of that team being elected.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
McCains weaknesses will not be overcome by any VP for any demographic.

QFT. :thumbsup:

 

[techs]

Yes, yes. By all means lets have someone so closely identified with Bushes failures on the ticket with McCain!

 

[Corbett]

Even though Condi is black and a woman, it would be cancelled out because she is a republican.

 

[Pabster]

She could beat Hillary.

Maybe 2012.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: bdude

An interesting blurb mentioned on Maher's show. Could this be a winning ticket against Obama?

<taps sacrcasm meter> Is this thing working??

 

[Lemon law]

Kinda sleezy Rice did a horrible job as NSC adviser and has done a horrible job as Secretary of State. Brokering mid-east peace is and remains her last only chance to have anything positive to show for her tenure. And that sure is not looking bright at the moment. Nor can I see Rice doing anything to mollify the far right of the party that McCain desperately needs to get energized.

But thats just my opinion, McCain is the one who will do the selecting. And McCain has not bothered to ask for my opinion, so I leave it there.

But as somewhat a chessplayer, its just habit to look for the strongest move the opponent could play. And I just don't think Rice would be anything but a net liability to a McCain ticket. My guess, McCain will select a card carrying conservative with solid religious right appeal. And Huckabee meets the latter criteria but not the former. And Romney meets the
former criteria maybe but is distrusted on the latter. My guess, McCain will be unlike GWB and will consult will the conservatives, and pick a VP acceptable to them.

 

[ScottMac]

She wouldn't do it anyway. Unless maybe you promised her the position of NFL Commissioner when she was done being Veep.

 

[Moonbeam]

It would be a great ticket. A democrat as the Republican nominee and a gay VP.

Republicans must want change.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
McCains weaknesses will not be overcome by any VP for any demographic.

What weakness?? ABC, NBC and FOX both have polls showing McCain essentially tied with Obama or Hillary in a head to head race.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
It would be a great ticket. A democrat as the Republican nominee and a gay VP.

Republicans must want change.

Good way to look at it.

 

[Harvey]

Rice should have stuck with playing the piano. At least, her catastrophic performance wouldn't have killed people.

 

[ranmaniac]

Rice should have been fired after 9/11, along with the CIA director and the rest of the officials who failed us on that day. She's been incompetent as NSC and Secretary of State, which would probably make her qualifiable as a VP candidate, as she is as useless as tits on a steer.

 

[FoBoT]

she has never held elected office, i think that would be the wrong choice for VP

 

[rpanic]

That would make a damn ugly pair.

 

[Rainsford]

For the love of God, why do people keep bringing up Rice as a candidate for political office? I don't think she's been as terrible as other people seem to think, but she hasn't been all that remarkable either. She's never held elected office and has been extremely undistinguished in her various cabinet level jobs...she might consider running for Congress, but anything beyond that is just wishful thinking.

Honestly, it seems a lot like some Republicans are getting worried because the Democratic front runners are both minorities, while the Republican candidates all look like they were in the same Ivy League frat together, so the Republicans held a meeting of all the visible minority Republicans to pick someone they could point to in order to show that they aren't just the party of old, white, Christian men. Unfortunately, the only person at that meeting was Rice, so they pretty much HAD to try to make a big deal out of her.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Rice still think she is George's wife? :laugh:Better get a divorce first!:brokenheart: