Condi Rice? You Mean THAT Condi Rice?
Okay, so the woman who did not think “Bin Laden determine to strike within the US,” was even close to being a warning might be Vice President?
What’s she supposed to bring to the ticket? More unpersonality? Such a liar that she makes Mitt Romney look honest? Another war or two? Fond memories of the Bush foreign policy? True confessions about that whole George W Bush being her “husband” slip of the tongue?
Although I admit that watching Joe Biden eat her lunch at a debate would be more fun than recess in heaven, the thought of the first woman to hold the highest office in the land being Condi Rice makes my butt itch.
Anybody got any worse ideas? Literally, is there any human on earth who could help the Romney ticket? I mean living person – Mother Teresa is not available.
And don’t say Jeb Bush. His last name is BUSH, forpetesake.
dear Juanita, do you want us to come up with a worse candidate or someone who could actually help romney?
i guess we could do both. but don’t forget, it’s friday the 13th
1Penelope, let’s shoot for both, or either, or combined, or with a cherry on top. I’m easy, girlfriend.
2Of course, Cheney just endorsed Romney, saying he would win on his foreign policy credibility. Sounds like the Bushies want their “Be a big guy, start another war” foreign policy back.
3“Literally, is there any human on earth who could help the Romney ticket?”
Do you mean help that ticket win? Or, help that ticket get into heaven? Or, help that ticket ensure 4 more years for Prsident O’Bama?
4Beezlebub
5After listening to Joe Biden’s speech at the NAACP convention yesterday, I’m convinced he will eat anybody’s lunch in the debate. He is the sweetest pit bull I ever knew.
6Picking Condi as Mitt’s running mate was never going to happen. Racisim is too much a part of his appeal to the red-neck, $20,000 a year millionaires who make up an enormous part of his base. Those folks would have a fit if he picks a VP who is black, educated, and an uppity woman.
7One word, say it with me – Sarahhhhhh…..
8Uncle Dave is correct. Besides, these people only like women who say and do what they want them to do (let us not go there in deference to Juanita’s Mama), the moment a woman makes a noise about wanting to step to the forefront they shut her down: Bachman, etal. In spite of their flirtation with the Caribou Barbie aka the dominatrix librarian with no brains, they still had trouble swallowing a woman in the Whitehouse.
All the talk about the reasons they hate “that woman,” you know the B**** Hillary centered around their perception that she was unqualified, that she lacked experience, that she just wanted to be President so she could be the first woman President, etc. was just a disguise for she is a woman!
How do we know this? Well there is their platform, and their public statements (too numerous to mention) but I think the most telling thing is the fact that every damn criticism they ever lobbed at Hillary could be legitimately applied to Romney!
So Condi will not be VP. Why? Because Romney is not McCain, he doesn’t have the balls.
9thanks Juanita!
From my perspective here, a worse pick than Condi would be Palin. palin would ensure he died within about 60 days so she could take control.
As for someone who could help mitt? Ron Paul. But Paul is too much into power himself to accept, so we’re safe!!!
My thoughts.
Oh, and if he picks chris christy, that’s two bullies for the price of one. look out world!
10Absolutely agree Uncle Dave…There is no way in hell Rice is being veep-vetted and you got the reasons correct, her talent on the keyboard notwithstanding. I have an idea the republicans have already picked their goat…we just don’t know its name yet.
11p.s.
12I really like that, “$20,000 a year millionaire.”
Just wish I had thought of it first.
Gramiam, you really nailed it calling Joe the sweetest pit bull…..I adore Joe Biden and that is the best description I’ver seen – fits to a T!!!
13Condi is just a diversion to get the press off of the Bain issue.
14I could root for Cheney for veep. Maybe he and Willard should retire to the Armstrong Ranch, do some skeet shooting, and cut a deal. Or not.
15Or, what aboot Dan Quayle? But to get maximum impact you need a Bush running with a Quayle. “Bird in the hand” etc etc
Or what about Joe Lieberman?
Or even Lindsey Graham?
Or back to Alaska and Lisa Murkowski??
See that’s the problem with the Reps. The faces haven’t changed that much since 1980.
Dick Cheney…. he’s tan, he’s rested, he’s got a new heart… and he clearly doesn’t give a flying horse’s patootie about what anyone thinks.
16I’m just repeating what I saw elsewhere — The platform for the Gee-Oh-Pee might turn out to be:
“The Wimp and The Blimp”, aka, Mittens and Chrissie.
And, as nasty as Chrissie is, that gives the Dems a LOT to talk about.
Fer example:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/chris-christie-jersey-shore_n_1654583.html
Chrissie is a big (oh yeah), obnoxious blowhard — as long as he has an audience and can post it on YouTube. But I’d RILLY love to see him follow through with his threats and verbal attacks against someone just talking to him out in public, and watch the jerk go up against a healthy, strong, PROGRESSIVE, Marine-type guy about 6’6″, who doesn’t back down.
If it ever happens, I HOPE THAT IT’S ALL CAUGHT ON TAPE when the big jassack gets in the manly man’s face and then, confused and surprised, gets put in his place.
Yeah, that Turdly Wonder from NJ bugs me, just a little….
17Whoever is anointed by Romney will be a gift to our efforts to soundly beat the snot out of that ticket in November. For one thing, any person who accepts the nomination has imbibed a Big Gulp sized portion of the Kool-Aid. Nobody in his sane mind would put himself/herself in that position.
18I have a friend who wants to see Rick Perry as the VP choice!
I’m not sure how that much smugness could fit into one room.
19I’m pulling for Condi. When I hear Steve Earle on the Revolution album sing about Condi, i almost like her.
If you have not heard it, go to You Tube and listen to “Condi Condi”.
20Let’s not forget: Mitt Romney was 31 years old in 1978, when, according to the Broadway musical “Book of Mormon”, “God changed his mind about black people.”
That’s 31 years in the LDS, where they believed there was something sub-human about people of color. Until they didn’t.
Do you think he’s flip-flopped on that issue, too?
21The Condi story is an attempt by the Romney campaign to distract people from the Bain story. There is no way that the GOP would have a woman on the ticket after Palin. Plus a large percentage of the base is racist and Romney is already in danger of losing these votes due to the fact that Romney is not really a christian.
22I nominate esteemed former State Representative Arlene Wohlgemuth.
An anti-abortion extremist of the first order, she has also characterised the State Children’s Health Insurance Program as an infringement of civil rights. As a representative, she sponsored legislation that raised eligibility standards for participation in the program from 100 percent below the federal poverty level to 200 percent below federal poverty level. She has a mean streak, too, having once thrown a hissy-fit that killed 52 bills in the House with a single shot because the vote on hers was postponed a day. She is rabid in her opposition to Obama and ObamaCares. She is at least as loo-loo as Cruz, and she loves the smell of money.
Perfect for Mittens.
23He should pick the Wasilla Snowbilly, again. She beat him out last time and now he is on top. Revenge is a dish best served cold and what is colder than Alaska?
24OMFG @Timbo! I think we have a winner! Here is a politician who has never said “Yes” once in her political life. Impeccable extremist Texas conservative credentials. Probably has the IQ of a Pet Rock and the engaging personality of a foothold trap. WOW!
25From what little I know about Mormonism, Mittens is NOT going to pick *ANY* woman for Veep. It’s just not gonna happen.
Think about how many women are actually top leaders in Mitten’s church. Go ahead; I’ll wait.
And, what do all those Mormons think *IS* a woman’s place in Mitten’s church, anywho?
And if he DID pick a woman to run on his ticket, then that would truly bug all his redneck-and-bagger constituency, also and too, as well.
Nope. No woman will be anointed to run as Mittens’ vice-president.
That’s my theory, anyway.
26Mittens could pick a woman, but it has to be the right one. Janis Lane for VP!
27I think that his most impressive surrogate so far, the one who effortlessly has embodied the fey willful disconnect of the one percent, the one who has been most effective on the attack against Obama, the one who has most effectively disdained women’s issue without appearing sexist, the one who has never been inside the Belfway, the one who can best defend the foreign tax shelters, and the one who clearly leads even better than Romney does, while being almost immune to criticism, is also fortunately for him the only one who can’t be compelled to testify against him…his wife, Ann Romney. Clearly she’s the stronger of the two…notice it was she who drove the jet ski in those photos, it’s HER name on the blind trusg and it was she who leapt to his defense once a week for the past several months.
If Romney wants to find his own Dick, he has to ask his wife.
(Cheney, you dirty-minded people!)
28Worse than Condi? Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Sharon Angle, Christine “I am not a witch” McDonnell, and that’s just off the top of my head.
Is there anyone who could help Romney? … … … … sorry, can’t think of a one.
29Mittens only pick would be your South Texas home girl Kay Bailey. Wouldn’t that be fun?
30Oh Timbo what an excellent suggestion! Please forward the name of this paragon of virtue to the Romney camp!
31Oh, Timbo and Sgt Mike!
32Wohlgemuth would be perfect! She said, in public at a committee hearing while a state representative, that she didn’t believe in compromising. It was her way or the highway. Then she pushed forward with HB 2292 in 2003 to reorganize the health and human services agencies and foist the privatization of fiscal eligibility determinations, human resources, and other processes; that thoroughly messed things up for years. We’re still trying to fix the formerly well-functioning processes that practically ground to a halt with those move.
On a more serious note, Condi is a pro-choice, black, single, childless, academic career woman. If Romney wants to lose all 50 states in November by depressing the turnout of his base, Condi would be the perfect pick.
33I grew up in Utah and still have friends there. Regardless of the hype put out by the Mormon Church, polygamy is still practiced in the church. The only crime is getting caught.
That being said, Condi just might be able to share Mitt with Ann. Just think, the first VP/First Lady in history.
34Ideally, a presidential candidate and his or her running mate should be a highly compatible team, with the same goals and aspirations for America and, above all, the same ethical standards. One choice stands out for Willard:
Bernie Madoff
35Earlier today, I saw a report that suggested that the Romney campaign leaked this story to divert attention from the unpleasantness associated with the questions about the SEC filings which seem to be at odds with what he said about when he left Bain and ran for governor. And the fallout from this trip to the Hamptons (the Nail Ladies dontcha know) also seems to be getting some traction so the Romney campaign wants to get the notoriously short-attention span of the news media looking somewhere else.
Next week they’ll be shouting “LOOK! There goes Haley’s Comet!”
36Rand Paul? He’s the right sex, the right religion, the right race, and all those who can’t vote for his daddy for Prez would be swooning, yes?
37David Copperfield. He has a knack with elephants.
38I agree with the assessment that the Condi balloon is a diversion, but I wanted to pass along a bit of information about the way deep country regressive/conservatives think, at least around my little town. A couple of days ago a rightwing friend of mine posted on Facebook how he loves Herman Cain, almost as much as he loves Allen West. How sick is that? And all his likeminded friends eagerly agreed. They don’t hate blacks and wimmin, they just hate ones they don’t own–er, who have minds of their own. Condi wasn’t exactly independent-minded in the Bush administration. She might very well be acceptable. It’s a way of insisting that they’re not racist, WE are. Goes along with the double reverse they put on everything–Republican adulterers getting the vapors over a Democrat’s adultery, Republican liars redfacedly accusing Democrats of lying, and so on.
39To keep from alienating those who cannot accept females, people of color, or intelligence, the only choice is Donald Trump. Double down on the rich card, add birtherism and a rivalry that should keep Jon Stewart in business for months.
40It probably wouldn’t help him, but Christine “I’m not a witch, I’m a lady bug” O’Donnell would be fun.
41Think outside the box: Joe Lieberman (CT) …..
42“some say” when Condi tells a lie the gap between her front teeth grows.
43Hey guys n’ gals,
Might I humbly suggest Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney’s offspring? Might make for some interesting commentary from both Rush Limbaugh AND Rachel Maddow….
44My crystal ball says lil’ old Liz. Who else to pickup where daddy left off? Also too, gotta keep her ‘business’ feeding from the gov’t teat.
45These are some of the most fun comments ever.
I understand Mitt will be appearing on this Friday the 13th evening news shows (traditional “dump the bad news” Friday night) to ‘splain how he was the sole CEO/owner/etc. of Bain but knew nothing of Bain’s practices of off-shoring etc. not to mention where they money was going.
“Mitt–you got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.”
46Eunice “Lovey” Wentworth Howell (The Gilligan’s Island character, for those of you unfamiliar.)
She’s rich, clueless, and has an utter disdain for common folk. Her political positions – whatever they are – are SURE to coincide with something Romney believed at some point. And she has more substance than Sarah.
47I don’t think Mitt is actually vetting anyone. More likely his team is begging. Seriously, who would want to run with this clown? How do you defend the indifensible?
48Don’t wanna harsh your buzz, JJ, but we’re talking MITT ROMNEY here. The man has never thrown a Hail Mary pass in his life and he’s not gonna start now. (He’s richer than all of us combined, so he knows better, doncha know.) It’ll be Pawlenty or Portman: two of the most boring, miquetoast people available. No wimmens, no gays, none of those “ethnic” types, either. Nobody who could possibly even make a small dent in the shadow that is Mittens. I’m just hoping for some excitement at the GOP convention from of them who are starting to get a wee bit anxious at the obvious faults of their candidate.
49Condi would provide one plus for a Romney campaign. She would make him seem personable in comparison.
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