Condi for Veep!

[Gob]

Ding Dong the witch aint dead!!

**Exclusive**

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."

[rubato]

Condi is 'pro choice'.

Mitt is only recently converted to 'anti-choice' (or Hate women, which is more accurate).

Questionable. The Republican base don't like even the slightest diversion from lock-step doctrine* and already don't like Mitts because he's a 'cult member' (according to Dave Mort and MajGenl). He would risk erosion in support from the crank 30%** whose votes he needs.

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rubato

*Which is why both Mitt and McCain gave up all of their authentic opinions to get the nomination. Naked cynicism does not seem to bother them, strangely.

** This is the 30% of the country, all Republicans, who thought Bush was doing a good job after 8 years of consistent failure. aka "The Base".

[Lord Jim]

I personally would be quite happy with Condi as the VP nominee, (she brings positives and negatives to the ticket, but on balance I think she brings many more positives) but I don't see it happening. Unlike some of the others, who said they didn't "want" it, but now aren't saying anything, Rice said she absolutely wouldn't take the nomination, and she re-iterated that position a couple of days ago, when this story broke.

[Big RR]

I agree it's unlikely to happen, Jim, as Mitt will have to select a VP who will play well with the traditional conservative base, something he is not all that attractive to himself. Condi would not be a good choice there. I'd greatly prefer her to an idiot/blowhard like Christie, but I think he has a much better chance than her (and it's not all that good, 2 candidates from the northeast wouldn't play that well either--but I'd love to see Christie shoot himself in the foot during the campaign).

[Rick]

I want to have Condis love child...

[dgs49]

Obviously, this will not happen. In addition to being pro-abortion she is a very boring public speaker. Great resume, but bad candidate.

It's really time for Mitt to announce someone. He needs someone to counterbalance that idiot at the bottom of the D ticket.

[Scooter]

being pro-abortion

Let's see, she has said that she wants abortion to be as rare as possible, she opposes late-term abortions, she opposes any government funding for abortion, she is in favour of parental notification laws, therefore, in the minds of the Republican base, that makes her "pro-abortion".

[Sue U]

The Boy Who Cried Condi Veep Rumors!



To use a phrase I've used before, the Condi Veep Rumor sideshow tent has exploded! Fun! Great job changing the subject, Bill Kristol and Matt Drudge. So far the reactions have been divided between scepticism and meanypants. Some samples:


Bryan Fischer is NOT impressed, but sees the logic in the choice: "Gov. Romney himself would be tickled pink with Rice, since she shares his near-absolute lack of conviction on moral values" and then characterized the Drudge "leak" as "a trial balloon that needs to be shot out of the sky." That Bryan!

Over at The American Conservative, Daniel Larison calls Condi an "uniquely poor V.P. choice," hilariously, but then does a brilliant job summing up why:

Rice did a lousy job as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, and she has the unusual distinction of being distrusted and disliked by many neoconservatives, most realists, and all non-interventionists in almost equal measure. She is closely associated with an administration that was widely regarded as incompetent in the conduct of foreign policy, and she helped to craft one of the least successful foreign policy records of any postwar administration. Those are her qualifications in the area in which she is considered an expert. On everything else, her policy views are either out of step with the majority of her party or unknown, and she has never run for office at any level. Romney certainly needs someone to make up for his lack of foreign policy experience and knowledge, but Rice would be one of the worst conceivable people to have in that role.

At the National Review, meanwhile, Ramesh Ponnuru probably doesn't realize just how accurate he is when he points out that Condi's "in a no man's land in the Republican Party."

Juan Williams, who is, of course, an idiot with the political convictions of a bicycle pump, says, "Let the Condimania begin!" and who am I to argue? But then, ha ha, he goes ahead and says really dumb things like "Rice has a strong political spine." LOLWUT?

Talk about damning: Sarah Palin thinks Veep Condi would be "wonderful." That basically takes care of that.

ABC News scored some fresh denials from Team Condi. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM. They are haters who want to kill fun.

Business Insider loves Rice-a-Romney "Because everybody loves Condi Rice." And they think that because ever since they read the Drudge headline, all the people at Business Insider have been huddled under their desks, masturbating furiously, so they haven't seen all of the other reactions to the story.

The Susan B. Anthony chicks are all, like, oh, HELL (get it?) no.

The Christian Science Monitor thinks the whole thing is a pathetic stunt to make the Romney campaign appear to be interesting. Wow, if they think he's boring now, just wait until he selects Tim Pawlenty!

Alex Koppelman at the New Yorker agrees that the whole thing was a diversionary stunt intentionally perpetrated by the Romney campaign, calls the idea "laughable."

Ron Paul told The Hill that his throbbing teen fanbase would be all, like, ewwwwww over Condi.

I actually agree with Erick Erickson, (a disturbing feeling) who says, "I don’t even think this is a serious leak from Team Romney. It’s just silly."

And that's just some of the most conspicuous reactions! There are countless more as journalists, once again, fall for the Condi Veep Rumors, or, refreshingly and more entertainingly, see right through them. It's The Boy Who Cried Condi Veep Rumors!

By the way, I added a "Condi Veep Rumors" topic tag (click below) so that you can relive the whole magical history of years of inaccurate Condi Veep Rumors!

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