Say It Aint So!
In an announcement that was most likely met with loud wails and a great gnashing of teeth by political fantasists on the conservative side, Condoleeza Rice has stated, emphatically, that she will not be running for President.
"It's not what I want to do with my life, it's not what I'm going to do with my life," she said today on NBC's Meet the Press. "I think I'm doing what I need to do, which is to try and promote American foreign policy, American interests, the president's democracy agenda at an extraordinary time."
Rice has been a consistent fantasy-candidate favorite over at Patrick Ruffini's website, where he hosts a monthly straw poll on potential Republican Presidential candidates for 2008 (Ruffini has just recently announced on his blog that he will be returning to the Republican National Committee to serve as eCampaign Director for the 2006 Congressional elections). Rice even out-polls, though just barely, Rudy Giuliani as the favorite 2008 candidate, so the announcement that she has no plans to run for President in 2008 is a low point for those who were longing to see a Rice vs. Hillary match-up.
But now that Ted Kennedy has publicly stated that he would support John Kerry for yet another tilt at the Presidential windmill, throwing into doubt the cohesion of the Democratic Party machinery behind Ms. Clinton, one wonders if it won't be a Hillary for V.P. push at the DNC, instead. You know, just to put her toe in the waters and see what the American public really thinks about her as a potential Presidential candidate . . .
OFF TOPIC:
To the delight of Sci-Fi geeks across the nation, Chewbacca is scheduled to become a United States citizen on Monday.
May the force be with him.
OFF TOPIC 2:
This is your liberal mommy on crack.
She squirmed her away across every producer's crotch in the industry and now her children can't even have ice cream? Sheesh.
Comments
i guess you haven't seen how badly hillary trounces condi in polls, then.
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Homocon sez:
I guess you haven't seen how badly Giuliani trounces Hillary in polls, then.
Posted by: jami | October 16, 2005 6:37 PM
I personally think the whole "Hillary for President" thing is a non-issue. Right now, she's polling okay because she's re-cast herself as a moderate. When/if a campaign actually starts, and the truth about what she really believes starts coming out, her "popularity" will drop away very quickly. Hell, I'm hoping she runs off at the mouth just once (well, run off at the mouth again - anybody remember the "We are the President" line) so we can have a sound-bite to hammer her with (a la "read my lips" - which was very overblown anyway).
I don't know why everybody's already focusing on an election that's not going to happen for 3 more years anyway. The entire political field will have changed by then, and I have a feeling that the folks actually running for President in 2008 will be people that never crossed a single pundit's mind. It'll be a slugfest, though, that's for sure...
Posted by: Phillip | October 17, 2005 11:00 AM
A recent Rassmussen Poll sez:
*Giuliani trounces Hillary
*McCain trounces Hillary
Rassmussen Poll
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Posted by: Scott | October 17, 2005 11:33 AM
Re: OT 2 -
Wasn't one of the horrifying thing about Mommie Dearest that she made her daughter wear the same clothes for days on end?
Posted by: Alice H | October 17, 2005 5:30 PM
..."yet another tilt at the Presidential windmill"
These are the kinds of things that make me love you that much more.
My thoughts on "Hilary as a potential candidate": Any woman who can carpetbag her way into the Senate MUST have the skills it takes to run our country. Don't you think???
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Homocon sez:
That's what I'm afraid of.
Posted by: deb | October 18, 2005 3:03 PM
*Giuliani trounces Hillary
*McCain trounces Hillary
That's not so relevant, though, since neither thinks Jesus crawls his way up the vaginal canal and crams a soul into the fertilized egg.
Posted by: jpe | October 22, 2005 1:43 PM