Drudge Report Lists Condi Rice as Top Romney VP Candidate

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Drudge Report Lists Condi Rice as Top Romney VP Candidate

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/drudge-report-lists-condi-rice-as-top-romney-vp-candidate/

The Drudge Report, the conservative website, reports Thursday night that there is a new frontrunner to be Mitt Romney’s running mate: Condoleezza Rice.

The Romney campaign has not commented on the report. Drudge has long appeared supportive of the Romney campaign and there are ties between the site’s founder, Matt Drudge, and Romney staffers.

Rice, who was Secretary of State under President George W. Bush and is now a professor at Stanford University, is on vacation this weekend, according to her spokesperson. But there has been more and more buzz about this on the blogosphere and at some news outlets. The Washington Post published an op-ed this weekend about how some conservatives view Rice favorably because she’s the “anti-Palin” and then Bill Kristol predicted that she is a front-runner, because Ann Romney told CBS that they are considering a woman vice presidential candidate.

Rice has repeatedly, steadfastly maintained that she not only doesn’t want to be VP, she doesn’t want to run for any elected office. But maybe she is changing her mind, or maybe she is being “drafted” into considering it?

[KaryninMiami]

1. Would not be the least bit surprising.

And frankly, given the situation they are in at the moment, it would be a smart move for them.

[Renew Deal]

2. I don't believe it and I don't think Condi would do it

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. She can't be that stupid.

Whoever is on the ticket with him can kiss their reputation goodbye overnight - from both sides of the aisle. His campaign is a disaster.

[salin]

9. Yes she could be this stupid.

Years before she was a national figure I listened to her lecture an audience about why pay disparity between male and female faculty were legit - despite a series of studies that controlled for many factors and suggested otherwise. She was the board of directors/regents spokes person - and despite dealing with verified statistics that showed otherwise, she kept towing the 'party line' (Not political at that time, but the power that be's line.)

Any time I have seen her in the public eye - she has done the same. She is a very smart woman. But she has perpetually playrd the party line in trumping up the propaganda and ignoring the facts in the lead up - and through the early years of the war with Iraq. Pay her or give her the power she seeks - and she will be (and has been) one of the best "yes women" ever.

Scruples, I haven't seen indication that she has any. If asked, I can't see why she wouldn't agree to run with Romney.

[Ruby the Liberal]

16. Party line, I get.

Willingly sacrificing yourself by hitching your horse to this candidate is another.

I *got* McCain. He had the whole 'mavericky war hero' thing going on - but the base HATES Rmoney. Dude is a liar and a snake. I can see if they picked some of the other clowns in the car - but not this one. This would be a HUGE mistake and disagree with them or not, I feel sorry to anyone who is hung out to dry by him. Because that will happen.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Is Condi ready to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from that closet I hear she's been hiding in?

[Fawke Em]

22. I was wondering the same thing.

Doesn't she live with another woman?

[TheDebbieDee]

31. She was at one time - I don't know if she still does or not!

Also, I don't think it would be the Obama Campaign/Dems that would out her.

[boxman15]

5. Romney might want Condi, but I don't think she's that dumb.

Joining the Romney ticket now is like hopping on the Titanic just as it hits the iceberg. If she wants a future in politics, she'd stay away from R-Money right now.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Exactly right.

This is nothing but an attempt to distract people from more pertinent issues. It ain't gonna work.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. She is still embued with the scent of Chimp

All of that close contact with GWB doesn't wash off overnight. Just what the Republicans need.

[Poiuyt]

11. Eww

?w=300

[Kalidurga]

7. As conservative as she is a booster for conservative causes...

would she really consider being VP to someone who is blatantly racist?

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. My money is still on Rubio, but I'm increasingly hearing the phrase "safe pick"

To me, "safe pick" equals Pawlenty or McDonnell

Romney needs someone who can tip a state assumed to be going to Obama into the Romney column. Condi can't deliver California.

[earthside]

12. Red herring, of course.

Maybe we will stop talking about Bain to muse about Condi?

Not gonna happen.

And, no, Condi doesn't need the attention and anguish that would come from being on the veep nominee rubber chicken circuit from whenever until November.

Personally, I think Rmoney will go for a general if he can get one ... like Petraeus.

He needs to recapture the national security issue back for the Repuglicans; he needs to beef-up how own paucity of foreign policy experience (two years as a LDS missionary in France doesn't count for much); and the base would love to have at least one killer 'he-man' on the ticket.

[GarroHorus]

13. Sooooo, a camaign struggling to distance itself from the Bush administration...

will choose a Bush adminstration official as veep.

Yeah.

Right.

[opihimoimoi]

14. My bet is on Paul Ryan and his budget...Romney nneeds the Baggers...,

[ChoppinBroccoli]

15. I'm Telling You, It's Gonna Be Portman

The sole reason? Rmoney will think he can win Ohio if he gives Ohio voters one of their own. You know, kinda like how John McCain thought he could steal away disgruntled Hillary voters by simply giving them someone with the same set of genitalia. This is how deeply Republicans think.

Nevermind that Portman is dull as dishwater AND is the architect of Bushonomics (you know, kinda the WHOLE REASON why the economy has been in the tank for a DECADE).

Although now that Mitt is in full tailspin mode, he might have to do something a tad more dramatic than pick this wet blanket.

[HipChick]

17. That will get the Woman voters out in droves...

Not...

It worked so well last time..

[progressivebydesign]

26. considering he's calling this "USA COMEBACK TEAM!!" and no doubt branded Olympics style...

..are there any former athletes in the bunch???

[abolugi]

18. She is pro-choice...

the baggers would never allow that

[Gman]

19. If Rmoney wants to put a war criminal on the ticket

That's some fresh ground to sow in this campaign.

[HooptieWagon]

20. I cant see anybody with brains and future political ambition

Getting on board this train wreck. So the pick will have to be somebody stupid, who's a limelight-loving narcisist, who can fire up the rabid teabagging base. Anyone have any ideas?

[Lex]

21. She's a big ol' reminder of 9/11 & Dubya and of the bad old days for most people.

She'd be a terrible choice for Romney. And another nail in his coffin.

[RZM]

23. I just can't see this happening. I'll be shocked if it does n/t

[dsc]

24. absolutely won't happen

Romney is suspect on abortion as it is and Rice is pro choice.

[progressivebydesign]

25. I doubt it. She has the personality of an undertaker.

I mean.. can you really see her giving campaign speeches?

Frankly, I DO believe that the RNC is stupid enough to think that if they get a black female that it will be all over for President Obama.. that's what I've been seeing from the republican comments. They truly, in their demented minds, believe that women and African Americans will actually vote for Romney because she looks like them. It's a fucking insult... and it did NOT work for Palin.

I don't get the allure of Rice.. just don't. She's just creepy...

[XemaSab]

27. Romney is perceived as being cold and wooden

Hell, maybe Condi would make him seem personable.

[Firebrand Gary]

28. GOOD! Now we can have another discussion about Iraq and Afghanistan! nt

[Volaris]

29. This can't possibly be true (although I don't doubt that they ARE, in fact, that stupid)

because the only thing Team Obama would need to do is to make ONE ad, that was just a clip of Condi saying "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"... CUT to black with bold lettering, and the question " WHAT weapons of mass destruction, Condi?"

yeah, that's what we thought.

[AJTheMan]

30. Another Holdover from Bush? Surprising!

Mitt Romney recently released his National Security/Foreign Policy advisers. Almost every single one of them were advisers under President Bush.

In other words:

All told, Romney lists 37 holdovers from the George W. Bush administration — the very same administration he and all other Republican candidates barely referenced during their many debates because it was so discredited and toxic, even to the Republican base.

Salon.com

You can see Governor Romney's entire Foreign Policy team here.

Here's a list of Romney Foreign Policy advisers who are holdover from President Bush Jr.:
Cofer Black -- Security Advisor to President Bush, VP of Blackwater
Christopher Burnham -- Undersecretary to Sec.Condi Rice
Michael Chertoff -- Sec. of Homeland Security under President Bush, Co-Author of Patriot Act
John Danilovich -- Ambassador to Costa Rica for President Bush
Paula Dobriansky -- Undersecretary for President Bush
Eric Edelman -- Undersecretary for President Bush
Michael Hayden -- Director National Security, Director of CIA under President Bush
Kim Holmes -- Heritage Foundation Foreign Policy Chief
Robert Joseph -- Adviser to President Bush on Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
Andrew Natsios -- Special Envoy to the Sudan under President Bush
Meghan O'Sullivan -- Director for Iraq at the National Security Council under President Bush
Pierre Prosper -- Ambassador under President Bush
Mitchell Reiss -- Director of Policy Planning under Secretary Colin Powell
Dan Senor -- Adviser to President Bush on Iraq and the Middle East
Vin Weber -- Campaign Adviser to President Bush
Richard Williamson -- Ambassador to the United Nations under President Bush
Dov Zakheim -- Special Advisor on Foreign Policy to President Bush, Heritage Foundation fellow.

If that looks like almost his entire team, that's because it is. Almost his entire team is composed of veteran neo-con Bush era Foreign Policy wonks.

To hear that Governor Romney is considering yet another Bush era official, Secretary Rice, comes to no surprise at all. What is truly surprising is that while you will never hear Romney utter any words about President Bush, you see that his entire foreign policy team is made up of Bush veterans, you see that he is raising money right now with Dick Cheney, Vice President under George W. Bush, and you see that Condileeza Rice is on his shortlist for Vice Presidential contenders.

My fellow DUers, if it walks like a Bush, talks like a Bush, and quacks like a Bush, then by science, it's a Bush.