Republicans talked about a Colin Powell or a Condoleezza for Prez, and didn't seem to worry...

[FrenchieCat]

about what Democrats would think, last I recall.

Why is that?

Condoleezza Rice: I won't run for president in 2008

Condoleezza Rice yesterday disappointed legions of political junkies who had been salivating at the prospect of an all-woman race for the White House in 2008 between the secretary of state and Hillary Clinton, by insisting that she would not seek the presidency.
"I don't know how many ways to say no. I don't have any desire to run for president. I don't intend to. I won't do it," Ms Rice told ABC television yesterday. "I won't."

Ms Rice, had, perhaps inadvertently, helped to fan speculation about an all-woman contest when she categorically declined to rule out a run for the presidency in an interview with the Washington Times on Saturday.

But by her second appearance on television chat shows yesterday, it was clear that she did not relish throwing herself into the endurance test that is a presidential race.

"I know what it takes to run for president. I've watched it up close," she told CBS television. She added that although she enjoyed her job in the Bush administration, "one of these days very soon I am going to want to return to being an academic again and to get back to the California life, and the world of ideas".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/mar/14/usa.suzannegoldenberg1

Would you nominate Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, to run as President?
http://searchwarp.com/swa262342.htm

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Colin Powell Should Have Run

Colin Powell could have been the first Black President if he had run.

He's got the experience, wisdom and honesty needed to be a great President. Is it too late to talk him into it?
http://www.city-data.com/forum/2008-presidential-election/244034-colin-powell-should-have-run.html
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Colin Powell For President
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/casa-grande-az/T9RFQPPREQMBISCQN




http://www.topix.com/forum/city/casa-grande-az/T9RFQPPREQMBISCQN

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Neither of them ever could have taken the GOP nod, but for a different reason.

Like Guiliani, they're both pro-choice.

The GOP is not going to nominate anyone pro-choice for President any time soon.

[FrenchieCat]

2. My point.....it wasn't their color, it was their stance on social issues.....

That's why I'm not understanding the "fear" and resistance that "progressives" have in believing that this could actually happen.

Many so called super Progressives here seem to believe that everyone is racist except for them....but yet the perceive the racist ways of a small minority to be the voice of the land.

It is odd to me. There's some kind of disconnect about even thinking this way, IMO.

[JI7]

3. and Louisiana has a Republican Indian American Governor

if Obama was indian American the same ones complaining about him being black are the ones who would complain that Republicans will go after him for "looking like a terrorist".

and if they really think things are that bad they should ask why Bill Clinton and other white Democrats didn't do more to improve things when it comes to race in those areas they are crying that Obama can't get.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Yep......

I think sometimes that Republicans understand more about winning than we do.

That's not good!

[orleans]

4. i think olbermann said colin powell liked obama

(and i thought: what? no mcpain?)

[FrenchieCat]

6. Guess that Powell doesn't want to be in Iraq for 1000 more years, hey?

I mean with the Powell Doctrine of an exit strategy and all. :shrug:

[comtec]

5. Powel/Rice 08

In all honesty if they had tried that I honestly think they could have won.
A legitimate all-black ticket, from the GOP of all places.
The problem is that both of their ethics have been publicly compromised, and they know it.
Which oddly would have made them perfect rethuglicants.
Colin Powell, aside from being a toady, is a reasonable person, and I think he would have been the LEAST bad of the lot. I also liked mittes for the same reason (if you put a gun to my head, I would have chosen mitten).
The thing about Mittens was that I KNOW he's a flip flopper, and that he probably would have flowed with the political winds MORE than lobbyists...
I Would remind people that WE ARE THE POLITICAL WINDS...THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!

As it stands, my preference(a very distant third) is Obama. I'm not thrilled with his relative junior status in politics, but he'll being a fresh wind with him, and that can't be bad. Hopefully he'll swing FAR FAR FAR left once in office and repair the damage 2 decades of right wing policies has done to this country (I loved Clinton but he really was right of center, even if that's wacko liberal by GOP standards).

[FrenchieCat]

10. Maybe so. But my point is that Repug aren't what we think we are.....

But sometimes I wonder if we are who we think we are?

[SKKY]

7. Actually, I keep hearing that Rice has dibs on NFL Commissioner...

...In addition to big part in this debacle we call the "War on Terror", she's also apparently a huge, huge football fan.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Yes, I heard that too.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Kicking for the racists Democrats who fear a Black man even in 2008!

:kick:

[UALRBSofL]

12. I've always liked Colin Powell

He should have run for the republican party, in my opinion.