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Condi: Umm…No

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Condoleezza, McCain, Republicans

“I don’t want to be, don’t intend to be, won’t be on the ticket.”
Pretty final words on the VP speculation from Condoleezza.
And scene…

April 15th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

McCain/Rice Could Win Big

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in 2008 Election, Condoleezza, McCain

A new poll suggests if John McCain chose Condoleezza Rice as his running mate, the ticket would win big, even taking the state of New York by 3 against a Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama ticket.
I find this poll quite surprising. While Rice is certainly qualified for the position, I’m not sure what she adds to McCain’s [...]

April 10th, 2008 | Permalink| 10 Comments »

Grover Norquist Endorses Condoleezza Rice For VP

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Condoleezza, McCain, Republicans

The guy who was famously quoted saying, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub,” has given Condi a thumbs up.
Maybe she’s not a big fan of government either?
From Wash Post:
No speaker goes to [...]

April 8th, 2008 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Condi Courting VP Spot

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Condoleezza, McCain, Republicans

Looks like my April Fools joke may not be a joke after all.
From ABC News:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is actively courting the Vice Presidential nomination, according to Republican Strategist Dan Senor. “Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this,” Senor said this morning on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
According to [...]

April 6th, 2008 | Permalink| 14 Comments »

McCain Announces Condoleezza Rice As Running Mate

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Condoleezza, Hillary, McCain, Republicans

MSNBC has scoop:
BREAKING - Soon after word leaked that Secretary Rice spoke in a closed session to Grover Norquist’s Amercians for Tax Reform yesterday morning in Washington, the blogosphere began to speculate that Rice must be floating the idea of running on a ticket with John McCain.
Today, McCain’s spokesman confirmed the rumors and announced Rice [...]

April 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 19 Comments »

Quote Of The Day

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Condoleezza, History, Race

“Black Americans were a founding population. Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding. That particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront it, hard for us to talk about it, and hard for [...]

March 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »