Are you ready for Vice President Condi? Update: Or Lieberman?
posted at 6:15 pm on March 26, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Four years ago? Sure. Today? No. Like the man says, what does she do for the ticket except drop another thousand pounds of Bush’s baggage on McCain’s back? Who’s out there at this point clamoring for Condi?
Mind you, the lefty with the scoop here is also the guy who was sure Dick Cheney was in cahoots with Israel to lure Iran into war. Any day now…
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is speaking this morning to Grover Norquist’s weekly powerhouse gathering at Americans for Tax Reform of conservative associations, think tanks, and political operations…
As one major Republican operative told me yesterday:
Someone like Condi Rice doesn’t go to Grover Norquist’s den to talk about the Annapolis Middle East peace process. She’s going to secure her future in Republican politics and to position herself as a ‘potential’ VP candidate on the McCain ticket.
I won’t go into more of what she said in the meeting — but can say that she gave a tour de force discussion of America’s global foreign policy and national security positions. She talked about everything from North Korea to China to Iran to Iraq to Israel/Palestine. She talked about military-sculpted policies and diplomatic-sculpted policies.
And by all accounts I have heard, her performance was stunningly good, very well received by one of the major bastions of American conservative power players, and that she “won them over,” according to one source.
I say again, aside from a shot of diversity — which, per our moral superiors on the left, doesn’t really “count” in her case because she is, after all, a conservative — what does Condi bring to the table aside from giving Obama an easy answer when pressed on his inexperience about how she wasn’t too inexperienced to be NSA and then Secretary of State when her only training was as provost of Stanford and two years on the NSC?
Update: A guy who already has credibility issues with his base isn’t going to put a Democrat on the ticket but it’s fun to pretend.
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Chakra Hammer on March 27, 2008 at 12:03 AM
if Santorum has problems with McCain then he shouldn’t* have let McCain campaign FOR him
Chakra Hammer on March 27, 2008 at 12:07 AM
McCain campaigned for Rick Santorum, if Santorum has problems with McCain then he shouldn’t have let McCain campaign FOR him and help to raise money for him. Also Rudy Giuliani For that matter.
Chakra Hammer on March 27, 2008 at 12:02 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxa5gAkUqi4
Rudy campaigning for Santorum(Santorum turned it into an AD)
Chakra Hammer on March 27, 2008 at 12:08 AM
McCain and Rudy went to bat for him, his turn to return the favor.
Chakra Hammer on March 27, 2008 at 12:11 AM
Condi Rice is brilliant in every sense of the word. She opposed Rumsfeld early on and is the instigator of the “clear, hold and build” strategy that is now being used in Iraq. She is a civilian GEN Petraeus.
Amy Proctor on March 27, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Rice earned her reputation as an analyst of Soviet and Eastern Bloc foreign and defense policies. She’s the one who formulated George H. W. Bush’s Russian policy. She’s the one who, as Provost, managed to rein in Stanford’s budget from running a deficit (eating endowment) to running a surplus. She’s served on the board of Transamerica Corporation. She’s been a Trustee on the board of the RAND Corporation, America’s premier think tank. Finally, she served on the board at Chevron Corporation, and was personally responsible for negotiating Chevron’s access to the Kazak oil fields, which resulted in Chevron naming a supertanker the SS Condoleezza Rice.
As Secretary of State, she’s the lead person on Bush’s foreign policy team, and her largest success is centralizing the United State’s foreign aid program, to prevent waste and working at cross-purposes in the aid programs the State Department oversees.
She’s proven herself as a corporate officer who is able to design and implement a budget, a seasoned negotiator with a winning record, a person knowledgeable about foreign policy goals of the United States.
And, last but not least, she’s a Republican.
Were either Obama to be compared to Condi Rice, both together could not begin to compare against her experience and her intelligence.
I don’t think she’s going to run (she’s got a lot of other irons in the fire, including a wish to be a concert pianist), but she’s the kind of person I’d want answering that 3AM phone.
Finally, with respect to her being black and a woman, the thought of Ginger Rogers comes to mind — she had to do everything Fred Astaire did, but she had to do it backwards and in high heels.
‘Nuf said.
unclesmrgol on March 27, 2008 at 1:20 AM
She has got my vote.
Johan Klaus on March 27, 2008 at 1:52 AM
She’s gotta start showing more skin if she wants my vote.
A woman on the tickets comes with a requirment….at minimum she should have sex appeal.
If not, I’ll stick with the ugly guys….it’s unamerican to have ugly women on the ticket.
mylegsareswollen on March 27, 2008 at 3:48 AM
Quite frankly your post is nasty on several levels.
Chakra Hammer on March 27, 2008 at 4:40 AM
She brings libertarian swing voters into the GOP fold. Many libertarians are deeply skeptical of McCain. Condi’s pro-choice, a strong fiscal conservative with ties to the very libertarian Hoover Institution.
I’m impressed that her first political move is to go to Grover Norquist’s libertarian weekly meeting. That sends a strong signal to libertarians. She went libertarian before she went to a conservative meeting.
This is encouraging news for libertarian Republicans.
ericdondero on March 27, 2008 at 6:30 AM
Agreed, Ms. Rice would make a great V.P., but the position must be clearly understood in its context of the day. If we view the position of V.P. as filling in the weakness of the President she’s our person.
However, the position of V.P. has become ceremonial. As the leader of the Senate, the position was designed to sway the
views of the Senate (representing U.S. (us)) to square the Presidents foreign policy, a task she would be find difficult as currently operated.
Because the Senate has transformed itself into our Nanny where only the Senate knows what is good for U.S. (us) and implement programs to assure we do not hurt ourselves, without consulting with U.S. (us). This function is actually an individuals responsibility.
Therefore, the Honorable Secretary Rice’s background, experience, and intelligence would be waisted in the position of V.P. When in fact she can and has made more progress in this arena via the private sector.
MSGTAS on March 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM
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