Condi Rice for President - 2008
Especially when I shudder thinking of Ms. Clinton running on the Dem side, I'm totally with ESR on a Condi Rice candidacy:- I’ve discovered that I really want to have a ringside seat on the farcical hijinks that will certainly ensue if the Republicans run a black woman for President, or even Veep.
Just so my position is clear, it is quite unlikely I’d vote for her. As in, not unless the Libertarian candidate is a werewolf or something. It’s just that the thought of Democratic strategists having shit fits over the hemhorraging black vote greatly amuses me. The panic and confusion that would reign on the New York Times editorial page as their political-correctness bias clashes (for once) with their anti-Republican bias would be good for many guffaws. I might actually listen to NPR just to hear them choking. In general, just watching the machinery of smug left-wing duckspeak seize up and damage itself on Condi’s blackness would be delicious.
Watching Republican racist/nativist types hold their gorges down for the sake of party unity would be entertaining too, but probably much less so as that type seems rather rare these days. In lieu of that, I’d just have to content myself with the screams of insenate rage that would issue from the neo-Nazis at Stormfront. Why, they might be almost as angry as the “Bush=Hitler” crew over at Democratic Underground. With any luck we might actually get to watch a few of the vicious morons on both sites die of thundering apoplexy.
I think I need to curl up with one of Ms. Rice's books. ¶ 4:49 PM
Not that democrats would have the slightest difficulty making mincemeat of Condi Rice if she were to run, mind you; she's the single most incompetent member of a relentlessly incompetent foreign policy team, and she lied under oath to congress; I can't see her as that much of a political threat. Oh, no doubt if she were running, the republicans would loudly declare that opposition to her was proof of racism, just as they do now when anyone criticizes Clarence Thomas (affirmative action GOP style), but I can't help but feel that particular bit of political jiu jitsu can be blocked pretty easily by her complete lack of qualification for office.
But it doesn't matter because she would never, not in a million years, get past the GOP nominating process--and if ESR thinks she would, he's even more politically naive than I thought. The GOP absolutely depends on their extremist wing, and their extremist wing would never tolerate it.
I do agree that the first black president and the first woman president will probably have to be republicans. (Colin Powell could've done it for the first category if he hadn't turned it down; I might even have voted for him myself.) Condi Rice hasn't got a prayer.
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