Unelectable – by Republicans: Last week, we predicted that John McCain would be appointed as vice president if Dick Cheney resigns. Since then, we have covered chatter in the Capitol that Bush would likely pick Condoleeza Rice as his new VP.
We’ll stick with our McCain prediction for this simple reason: Bush won’t have a say in the matter. The Old White Guys who actually run the Republican Party won’t give him a choice. Bush is the lamest of lame ducks. He will either accept their pick for VP or they will withdraw their support for him – essentially what their predecessors did to President Nixon in 1974.
The OWG won’t want Condi because if Bush were be forced to resign (or if he croaks), obviously, she would become president. Two problems with that, from the OWG perspective: One, she’s a woman; and, two, she’s black.
A recent Marist College/WNBC pol found that only 26 percent of voters said they would vote for woman for president, regardless of whether she were a Democrat or a Republican. Another 28 percent said they would never vote for a woman, period. (Since the poll is out of New York, we’re sure the poll-takers were assuming the female candidate to be white. Who knows how the numbers would have skewed had they been asked about voting for a generic black female candidate.)
Race is an even more determinative factor for Republicans than gender. Great swaths of GOP voters are either proud racists or the secret muttering kind, so the idea of having Condi becoming president due to the sudden permanent unavailability of Mr. Bush, well, that dawg won’t hunt in ‘Bama, if you get my drift.
The GOP’s OWG will install McCain, or someone like him – Sen. Chuck Hagel, perhaps, because he is electable. He has appeal to Independents, liberal Republicans and even some conservatives.
And besides the much-heralded Alabama OWGs, those neo-Nazis in broadminded Ohio would object too.
Sad that race and gender still blind people, even if Condi would be totally inadequate to the job of either Veep or Prez. Kinda underlines my contention that, despite the year, we’re still in the middle ages, if not slowly sliding back into the dark ages.
I can’t actually believe I’m reading this horseshit that passes for analysis. You guys don’t hang around Republicans, don’t know about us, and don’t have standing to even judge who we are.
Oh, the “old white guys” in the Republican Party? They’re the ones who promoted Condi in the first place.
Oh, by the way, did you see how loudly Condi got cheered by those Ku Kluxers in Bryant stadium at the Alabama game? I guess that was before the cross burning.
Learn something about what you comment about before you make a fuckwit of yourself.
This troll is angry. What could be disturbing it?