Condoleezza Rice is the GOP’s white whale. http://t.co/zj80tKyk18 pic.twitter.com/gxZgfvECHd
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) February 24, 2015
The Washington Post article, by Nia-Malika Henderson, is perfectly reasonable:
The ‘Draft Condoleezza Rice for [fill in the blank office]’ movement will never ever die. And with an open Senate seat in California in 2016, the unquenchable desire among Republicans for candidate Rice has an actual office that she could run for in sight…
Based on this (name recognition) poll, which shows Rice leading current California Attorney General and declared Senate candidate Kamala Harris in terms of peoples’ “inclination” to vote, the Conservative Action Fund launched yet another attempt to get Rice to run. The Black Conservative Fund has also joined the efforts…
Obviously, lots of these groups that have nothing to do with actual candidates are really only in business for themselves. And Rice, who remains a rarity as one of the most high-profile black Republicans in the country, will always be good for business–even though her every move suggests that she would rather spend time on the links and in the classroom rather than glad-handing for votes. A pile of signatures and web site won’t convince her otherwise.
And yet, from the responses to Cillizza, I think there’s a lot more people reading his tweet than will bother reading her words. Speaking of microagressions.
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Apart from a round of “I can deal with my enemies, Goddess protect me from my allies”, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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