Comments on: Condi! Condi! Condi! (Condi?)

By: ano nymous

ano nymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:55:42 +0000

Condi’s views on abortion have been considerably misrepresented. See wikie. Rice said “If you go back to 2000 when I helped the president in the campaign. I said that I was, in effect, kind of libertarian on this issue. And meaning by that, that I have been concerned about a government role in this issue. I am a strong proponent of parental choice—of parental notification. I am a strong proponent of a ban on late-term abortion. These are all things that I think unite people and I think that that’s where we should be. I’ve called myself at times mildly pro-choice.”[94] She would not want the federal government “forcing its views on one side or the other.”[95]

Rice said she believes President Bush “has been in exactly the right place” on abortion, “which is we have to respect the culture of life and we have to try and bring people to have respect for it and make this as rare a circumstance as possible” However, she added that she has been “concerned about a government role” but has “tended to agree with those who do not favor federal funding for abortion, because I believe that those who hold a strong moral view on the other side should not be forced to fund” the procedure.[95]

By: Dale Steinacker

Dale Steinacker — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:35:46 +0000

Sorry I'm late to the party on this, but did you see this article by Rice in Finanancial Times. It kinda looks like a VP position paper.

By: Matthew Dickinson

Matthew Dickinson — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:10:14 +0000

George – I talked about the need for a personal connection between the president and his vice president in a previous post, but you are right to bring it up again. Of course, it’s not clear to me how close Mitt is to any of these individuals, except for perhaps Pawlenty. But the biggest objection to Rice is the one you cite: her tenure in the Bush administration, especially her association with those two wars. Whether that makes her toxic to the undecided swing voters is an important question – I don’t pretend to know.

By: George Jaeger

George Jaeger — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:06:19 +0000

Does the fact that Condi was one of the weakest Secretaries of State in recent memory, happily supported George W.’s disastrous wars for which we will pay for decades to come and headed the State Department during times when America’s reputation among our allies was at a nadir qualify her to be one heart-beat from the Presidency?

Even from her personal perspective, I would guess that, as a veteran of the Cheney wars, she might not look forward to a repeat performance, fronting again for the hard-nosed neo-cons who are now Romney’s foreign policy advisers – many of whom, like John Bolton, would be resurrected in a Romney presidency.

Its also highly unlikely that she would have the same very close relationship with Romney that she had with George W. Bush, who, whatever his faults, learned from her and really liked her.

For these and other reasons I hope (and expect) she will continue to decline. As she herself said when this first broke, she “knows her limitations”.

By: Celeste Gauthier Tatum

Celeste Gauthier Tatum — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:21:13 +0000

Hey Matt! As a Midd grad 12 years out, I enjoy your blogs here in Louisiana. As a Southern conservative voter, Condi would definitely make me more excited about this election. I am not a huge Romney fan, and Condi, as an African-American female, could give the conservative voting group a more attractive face (as anywhere above the Mason-Dixon line, declaring yourself a Southern conservative is not always looked upon favorably!)