Condoleezza Rice--The Perfect Running Mate for McCain

      We don’t want our Vice President making deals. Whenever Vice President Dick Cheney takes a trip; you know he is making deals, and it is never a good deal for the American people.

       There is another theory about Condi’s alleged vice-presidential aspirations--that it is just a ruse to divert attention from her lackluster performance as Secretary of State. She used a similar strategy before:

 ·        “[Condoleeza Rice] had a very deliberative public relations strategy when she became Secretary of State to help erase the images of how ineffective she had been as National Security Adviser. ...[O]ne of her aides even planted a question with a friendly journalist to ask whether she would be interested in running for president--to give her the aura of someone who might have presidential aspirations, make her seem more powerful than she was.”-- Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler, on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, 11/30/08

      It is no secret around Washington, DC that Condi’s star has faded. There was a time the new Secretary of State was a much sought-after guest on all the Sunday talk show--appearing thirty times in a two-year span. Those days are long gone.

 ·        “The secretary of state has always been considered a prize catch for the Sunday talk shows. But when the White House offered Condoleezza Rice for appearances eight days ago, after a week focused on Iraq, two programs took the unusual step of turning her down.”--Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post, 9/23/07

      By early 2007, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had become so irrelevant that, after co-authoring an opinion piece about the role that public/private partnerships could play in rebuilding of war-torn Lebanon, the State Department could not find anyone willing to publish it.

 ·        “I kept hearing the same thing. There’s no news in this. The piece was littered with glowing references to President Bush’s wise leadership. It read like a campaign document.”--Price Floyd, (then) State Department director of media affairs, quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle, 7/22/07

      This is just another indication of the kind of loyalty that would make Condoleezza Rice the perfect Vice President. For over seven years, she has worked with the worst President in U.S. history, without uttering so much as a word of criticism toward him. Instead Condi has covered for President Bush, lied for him, and continues to defend him--despite the fact that he has screwed up everything he has touched. Condi is always there to articulate the lies and distort the truth--the way President Bush would like to do, if he were able to speak coherently.

      What more could Republican Presidential candidate John McCain ask for in a Vice President than Condi’s pure, unadulterated, deaf, dumb and blind loyalty to the President and her ability to overlook mistake after mistake after mistake, without batting an eye? From what we have heard from Senator McCain on the campaign trail so far, he needs someone like Condi.

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