Late Thursday evening, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign launched a new fundraising drive, ‘Meet The VP’ — just as Romney himself has narrowed the field of candidates to a handful, sources reveal. And a surprise name is now near the top of the list: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice!
The timing of the announcement is now set for ‘coming weeks’.
It was Condi who received two standing ovations at Romney’s Utah retreat a few weeks ago, and everyone left with her name on their lips. Rice made an extended argument for American leadership in the world. In recent days, she emailed supporters:
“2012 is perhaps a turning point for the United States.”
“The upcoming elections loom as one of the most important in my lifetime,” she warned. “I’m very often asked to speak about our current foreign policy and the challenges that lie before us. However, we, as a country, are not going to be able to address any of those international challenges unless we first get our domestic house in order.”
This type of pandering seems so obvious to my suspicious nature. But, how about choosing the best person to take over in the event the POTUS cannot perform his duties? Not that I believe either one of our current choices is qualified to lead as much as a Boy Scout Troop.
Condi has flat out said she will not run for VP.
” I didn’t run for student council president. I don’t see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I’m not particularly fond of politics.”
“There is no way that I will do this.”
/thread
Exactly, I hope anyway. Amazing woman, but this would be pandering beyond belief. Never mind politicians do it all the time. I just believe she’s actually above the position in life.
She is very smart, attractive, and strong.
She is also a bully. We need a Bill Clinton type to lead through overwhelming charm, rather than a bully.
However, people who have been indoctrinated into the idea that the world is out get them, want a bully to protect them.
Attractive? You mean in the same sense that a woodchuck is attractive????
That’s what Dick said.
Does anyone really “run” for VP?
Reaching so high for the list, so soon, doesn’t bode well. People once talked of Hilary running with Obama, and look who he ended up with; the biggest idiot of the pack Joe Biden. John McCain had plenty of people to choose from, but he chose Palin.
Romney cannot afford to go the Palin / Biden / Quayle route. If he doesn’t pick someone who is sharp, he’s toast.
Willard needs to find someone a bit more popular with the people. Condi is not that person.
Drudge is a part of Team Romney, but he’s been wrong from the beginning. Bush-Keating, Kerry-Gephardt, Obama-Hillary.
Perhaps Obama will dump Biden for Hillary and then Dick Morris can sell his book again.
People still listen to Drudge?
Most people at newspapers and TV networks keep watch over him to make sure they don’t miss a big story.
With Michael Steele already used and Colin Powell disgusted with his own party, I suppose Condi is one of the few remaining token blacks that Teapublicans might consider to attract voters.
Frankly, I agree she is smart, very articulate and I love to hear her speak. However, she’s still ‘dirty’ from the Cheney Administration.
So is Powell, dirty from that Cheney business.
Probably. However, he redeemed himself by exposing the corrupt, lying, deceptive acts of the Cheney regime and figurehead Bush.
Bingo…
This is exactly why she does not need to be the VP pick. The Republicans need to distance themselves as far as possible from everyone in the old Bush administration, including all the Bush relatives.
I hope someone has sense enough to keep the Bushes, Cheneys, and the rest of the Attack Iraq crew away from the convention.
Coincidentally, Cheney was recently quoted as endorsing Romney as his Presidential choice. With all these icons of what went wrong, or who’s hated most, coming out to support him. Romney shouldn’t worry about losing the race. It’s a almost a fact that he will. All he needs to do now, to lock it in, is say he’ll bring back the draft. And the press will have a field day on how he avoided it, thrice.
After that, he can sleep easy knowing he did everything he could to get Obama reelected. And fool the most voters into thinking he wanted the job.
So was the Biden choice there to pander and attract white vote for Obama? Nonsense. In both cases. Yes, one picks VP to reach audiences he is not easily able to and fill gaps and abilities main candidate lacks (though, in case of Biden we got something else but older, wiser,… as intended). No one is Superman so this is neither pandering nor bad, just proper both for the function and electability. Rice addresses black vote, woman vote and has international policy experience beyond anything Romney has. So, good fit. (But she won’t accept it).
So was the Biden choice there to pander and attract white vote for Obama?
Rolls eyes.
“Will Romney”? I thought it was Mitt Romney?
Willard is his first name.
Condi is black, highly-credentialed, well versed in cold-war rhetoric, and an eager and dupe-able pawn. Romney, despite his GOP cred, seems to lack the machismo to make her panties wet, so I think she will pass.
She is a perfect, high functioning, technocratic sociopath. An expert in Russian Literature, she can at once, waterboard, discuss the original text of Crime and Punishment, and play classical pianos with her toes. We are in big trouble when she and Willard take the helm.
Condi’s choice was clearly stated:
http://inquisitr.com/271007/mitt-romney-vp-rumors-condi-rice-might-still-get-the-nod/
Jindal and Rubio are my choices:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio
It’s blog SPAM. Much like posts from Dallas.
Condi Rice, right. Wrong. Let us guess some more. Jeb Bush, huh, maybe.
Ha ha Bobby Jindal.
With Condi Rice on the ticket she can counter Democratic claims of Republican voter suppression with tales of how only the Republican Party would let her father register to vote when she was growing up in Alabama. Then she can followup with how guns are a good equalizer for minorities to protect against a majority.
This type of pandering seems so obvious to my suspicious nature. But, how about choosing the best person to take over in the event the POTUS cannot perform his duties? Not that I believe either one of our current choices is qualified to lead as much as a Boy Scout Troop.
Right now, the POTUS can’t perform his duties. Or WON’T! (Do we really have to go into just how even more Constitutional rights have been eroded in this administration alone?)
Frankly, I think it should be the other way around where Romney is the VP candidate!!! But that might be a little too obvious at pandering and might indicate just how desperate Americans are to replace the socialist that we now have.
In any case, I agree with the bad choices. But it’s even worse since even a Nixon reincarnate would seem to be an improvement. Because with Romney being the only realistic choice it’s a lot like having to choose between pain and death! (Not like choosing between pain and anguish.)
So if you’re a socialist (or a racist) then by all means vote for Obama. Don’t look at the facts. And by all means, drink that cool-aid the dems keep handing out too. But don’t say you weren’t warned! It’s not like the last 4 years weren’t a hint or anything.
C. Rice is vastly better qualified to run the nation than Joe B. or Obama is. I mean that exactly the way I said it. I will happily vote for her as VP given the opportunity. Heck, I would happily vote for her to be President.
What’s your problem? You aren’t a sexist or a raciest are you? I mean my reading of your views didn’t exactly sound either gender or sex neutral especially if you have a clue as to just how highly qualified she is.
I really don’t get why people would claim that she is a pandering pick. She may be black and a woman, but she appeals far more to the educated, elitist white evil 1% class of person like myself. The demographic that she personally intersects with doesn’t really correlate IMO to the kind of voters that she will please most.
You don’t get why Teapublicans would hand pick black, women or some soccer mom, beauty queen bimbo from Alaska to a white dominated party? Really?
However, you do get how Condi would appeal to the 1% ?
You are in the top 1% of dumbasses within the 1%
No dice on this one. Bush “had” her already.
It would hurt him, all of Bush foibles will become the distraction, rather than the lies and distortions Obama uses now.
Watching Romney whine about the dignity of the office, and request an apology he’ll never get, refusing to pin the blame on Obama rather than his staff…I remember why Conservatives didn’t want him…
its unlikely he’ll win.
He couldn’t begin to articulate why freedom envisioned by our founders is better than the soft tyranny of westernized socialism nanny state…
He doesn’t have a clue. Like the Republican elites who forced him upon us, he has danced with the devil so long he can’t tell a real partner, from a cross dresser.
Agreed. He’s a poor choice to lead the country.
Credit this nominee failure to the Teabaggers who successfully elbowed their way on to seize the GOP agenda alongside the Christian Taliban.
What is needed is another grassroots TRUE conservative party that recognizes the role of government, distances itself from the Taliban and balances the capitalism against the needs of the American people.