Some In GOP Hope Rice Runs For President - Miami-Herald

[WillyT]

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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been spending time in places like Israel and Italy instead of Iowa. Some Republicans hope she will turn from globe-trotting diplomat to barnstorming candidate for president.

The 2008 presidential race is still a long way off, and Rice, a Republican, is only seven months into her job at the State Department. Still, there are signs that she could take a shot at two historic precedents - the first woman president and the first black.

And...

Rice's extensive foreign travel and frequent interviews have raised her profile from her old job as Bush's national security adviser, and her designer wardrobe and changing hairstyles make her easily the most glamorous member of the administration.

Rice is famously close to Bush, who cannot run again and has not anointed anyone to run as the GOP candidate to succeed him. Bush's brother, Jeb, has repeatedly said he won't run in 2008, although their 81-year-old father, former President George H.W. Bush, has said he would like to see the Florida governor seek the White House.

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Link: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12166648.htm

Sorry!!! :puke::puke::puke:

Just lost my breakfast.

Is this a possibe 'Alternative to Hillary' strategy???

:shrug:

[Vickers]

1. They'd pick a lesbian to be their candidate?

Sorry, just a joke about their use of whispering campaigns.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. I'm reminded of a Rude Pundit line concerning Condi

It would probably be, um, wrong to quote it here, so I'll just post the link:

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/05/what-laura-bush-should-have-said-rude.html

[RetroLounge]

8. Oh my, Cream on her coffee?

:rofl:

RL

[Booster]

11. Wow, that really was rude even by my standards. ha

[aden_nak]

2. The Republicans would never run her, not even if Dubya threw a pissy fit.

And doubly so if Hillary runs. To be blunt, they know they are not going to get more votes for a female candidate from their conservative base than the Democrats will get for a female candidate from their liberal one. The issue of race plays second fiddle in this respect, I think. Just about the only way the Republicans would run Rice is if they were planning to smear Hillary as being a racist. . . and I don't think that's a smear that even Fox News could take seriously.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Oh me too!

“I believe the title was, Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.”

[fob]

4. She's certainly stupid, arrogant, mean and cruel and able to lie with

ease enough to secure the repbulick nomination. In short, she's perfectly bushian*.

:scared: of someone who would continue failed bush* "policies".

[blueknight]

7. i hope she does too!

the rednecks down south would never vote for a black regardless of party affiliation

[deminks]

6. Rice-a-phony for Preznut?

Her lies are more transparent than most. Glamorous? She still has that basic Olive Oil look - she will never lose that.

'sides, fundies, IIRC, she's PRO CHOICE (oh the horror :sarcasm: )
and how would they ever put up with all that classical piano?

[NewJeffCT]

9. They float her name out there for one reason only

So they can try to show African Americans that they are an inclusive party & that they can succeed there, too.

She has no chance of winning a primary... they just put her name out there so the names for 2008 are not all white males and they can say, "look, the Democratic names are all white, we have a black woman running!"

Hey, if it works on 1-2% of the African American population, it's good strategy on their part.

[bribri16]

10. Many Democrats hope she will run.

Guaranteed win for Dems.