Reviving the Carol Mosley Braun run for President

[mandyky]

It is becoming increeasingly clear to me that the far Right of the GOP want to run Condaleeza Rice in 08.

I think CMB would be her exact oppsoite - real diplomacy vs Bush-Rice bullying. CMB was an ambassador so she does have diplomatic experience.

Having 2 Black Women running in different parties would be good, no?

[onehandle]

1. The GOP will Not nominate Rice. They would lose the South.

Gosh, I hope they do.

But they won't.

[Southsideirish]

2. I'd take a long hard look at "CMB" and her history before I pushed her

candidacy

[afdip]

3. braun vs rice??? the time is right for a green party candidate

[brainshrub]

4. It will be very easy to find the person the person they will nominate:

It will be Jeb Bush or someone with a total lack of imagination.

[kevsand]

5. Oh, puhleeze, you cannot possibly be serious.

While Braun was an inspiration on the floor of the Senate, she was an absolute train wreck everywhere else. She won the first time because she was essentially unopposed in the general. The repubs expected incumbent Democrat Alan (never lost an election, biggest vote getter in Illinois history) Dixon to be renominated, and they had their sacrificial lamb already in place. When Braun pulled the upset in a three way primary, it was too late for the repubs to do anything about it.

Six years (and seemingly countless scandals, faux pas, and general missteps) later, they mopped up the floor with her. I personally think she got a bum rap from the media, but even that was mostly her fault, as well.

[dsc]

6. She lost by 2 points

and that was the only election she ever lost.

[kevsand]

7. Actually, it was closer to three points

2.91 to be exact. But even that is misleading. She only managed to win in five (out of 103) counties statewide. And even though she carried Cook County by almost 400,000 votes, she still lost statewide by almost 100,000 votes.

She lost big time in traditionally un-losable Dem counties like St. Clair and Madison. She and Poshard both went down hard in a year when Hynes and White both ran well statewide. In downstate Illinois, we call that a whuppin'

The reason she'd never lost an election before that was because she'd only run for two other things: Illinois House (from one of the safest Dem districts in the state, and maybe the country) and Cook County Recorder. Of course, we all saw how poorly she fared in the 2004 presidential primaries and caucuses.

She is an amazing woman, and was one of our most eloquent progressive voices in the U.S. Senate during her time there, but I seriously doubt that she could ever win statewide in Illinois again, and she obviously has no business running nationally.

[geek tragedy]

8. There are about a million black women I'd rather see run

than Carol Measley Brain.

[dolstein]

9. Personally, I'd rather nominate the best candidate for president

instead of limiting ourselves to the best black female candidate.

[Catfight]

10. I think she'd make a great candidate again. I liked her, still do. nt

[SONUVABUSH]

11. DUUUUH

Why nominate a certain LOSER?

[TheFarseer]

12. We had 10 candidates last time

running for the nomination. You want the person that came in tenth. I don't understand the logic.