Sounds like a Sherman statement to me. Thus dies the Democratic dream of saddling McCain with Bush’s baggage personified. Hey, has anyone asked Rumsfeld if he’s interested?

“I do not want to be, don’t intend to be, won’t be on [McCain’s] ticket,” she told the Associated Press in an interview in Alabama today where she received an honorary degree from Air University at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.

“It’s time for me to do something else,” she added, saying she would return to Stanford University after the Bush administration leaves office next January.

Rice praised Sen. McCain, of Arizonia, as “an amazing man” with “great intellect” but said the last time she spoke with him was last month after his passport file had been breached…

“We’ll see in a few year’s what I do. But I — this is not the time for me,” she told the AP.

There were at least two sources, one of them named, claiming that she was campaigning to be VP and Grover Norquist all but nominated her for the position. Anyone think this splash of cold water isn’t the result of someone from Team Maverick pulling her aside to tell her to save her breath?