Rice for GOP VP?

[wisconsin]

She is a HELL of a lot more qualified than either Clinton or Obama!  In fact, I'd vote for Condi over McCain without a moment's hesitation. She is very strong on the 2nd Amendment, telling about her father who defended the family from Klan attacks during the 50's with a gun.   

Say what you will .But for reasons I can't really explain. I trust Condi a whole lot more than McCain. Thats just my opinion so don't burn me on this one. Maybe its the way she handles herself.

[tombogan03884]

She is a HELL of a lot more qualified than either Clinton or Obama!  In fact, I'd vote for Condi over McCain without a moment's hesitation. She is very strong on the 2nd Amendment, telling about her father who defended the family from Klan attacks during the 50's with a gun.  

I'll second THAT nomination ! Wisconsin, I don't think you need to worry about getting burned, not at all 

[saltydogbk]

Condi would be the best out of what we have  "left"

[Jkwas]

Exactly what are her qualifications?  She has never been accountable to the american people and only held appointed positions carrying out administration policy.   I checked her resume and she has either been an academic or advisor her whole career. 
She's probably a fine person, but what are her management skills?
I don't know about this one.

[Outlaw]

If any of them had any management skills we wouldn't be in this S*%t hole mess we're in now with Iraq, gas prices, economy, etc.

[Sponsor]

[Michael Bane]

I'd get behind a McCain/Condi ticket, although I believe she's already said she wouldn't take a VP slot...she has great Second Amendment credentials...

mb

[DDMac]

I have heard absolutely nothing since the initial speculation about Rice. Perhaps she "just said, NO!' Her main asset, beyond intellectual accomplishment, and dealing regularly with peace initiatives between people who pray for the other's violent demise, is simply that no one owns her. Now, wouldn't that put the curl on your Frosty! Someone who would be true to conservative ideals without the baggage of political debt. Wow!

Mac.

[Marshal Halloway]

As you may remember, Rice talked about the 2nd amendment in an interview with Larry King Aired May 11, 2005.

Here's a transcript:

KING: We have a Second Amendment. People can own guns. By the way, what do you think about gun control?

RICE: The way I come out of my own personal experience, in which in Birmingham, Alabama, my father and his friends defended our community in 1962 and 1963 against White Knight Riders by going to the head of the community, the head of the cul-de-sac, and sitting there, armed. And so I'm very concerned about any abridgement of the Second Amendment.

I'll tell you that I know that if Bull Conner had had lists of -- of registered weapons, I don't think my father and his friends would have been sitting at the head of the community, defending the community.

KING: So you would not change the Second Amendment? You would not...

RICE: I also don't think we get to pick and choose from the Constitution. The Second Amendment is as important as the First Amendment.

KING: But doesn't having the guns, while it's protection, also leads to people killing people?

RICE: Well, obviously, the sources of violence are many, and we need to -- to get at the source of the violence. Obviously, I'm very much in favor of things like background checks, and you know, controlling it at gun shows. And there are lots of things we can do.

But we have to be very careful when we start abridging rights that our Founding Fathers thought very important. On this one, I think that they understood that there might be circumstances that people like my father experienced in Birmingham, Alabama, when in fact, the police weren't going to protect you.

KING: Did you see him take the gun?

RICE: Oh, absolutely. Every -- every night he and his -- he and his friends kind of organized a little brigade.

KING: How old were you?

RICE: I was 8. Eight years old.

KING: You remember that?

RICE: I remember it very, very well.

KING: Did you understand it? And 8-year-old? Why?

RICE: I -- I understood that something was deeply wrong in Birmingham, Alabama. When I didn't have a white classmate until we moved to Denver, Colorado. I knew that these were separate societies. Our parents -- I grew up in a very nice, sheltered little middle class community in Birmingham. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a minister and a high school guidance counselor. And I'm still friends with a lot of the kids from that community.

And we recognized that we had very special circumstances. Our parents told us. All right. Maybe that you can't have a hamburger at the Woolworth's lunch counter. And it may be that you can't go to this amusement park, Kiddieland. But don't worry. You could do anything you want. Your horizons should be limitless in America. And we believed it.

[jaybet]

Two observations...
Maybe she's not so bad after all.
and
Larry King is STILL a horse's ass.

[clayflingythingy]

Sounds as if she would support "closing the gun show loophole" the way I read the transcript.

How is JC Watts on the 2A? or Michael Steele?