The Condi Boomlet

So, there is a boomlet on Condoleeza Rice for Vice President (Republican).  My wife and I differ on this.  She is against Condi because she thinks she lacks the needed aggression for the job.  I like Ms Rice for the job because she is experienced and smart and doesn't talk down to people and she was, when an Intern on the Joint Staff, the best dressed woman in the Pentagon.  I have talked with her, standing in the Tenth Corridor of the Pentagon.  For not many people can I tell you where I held a conversation.

The Althouse blog looked at this yesterday, and discussed possible reasons for floating her name at this time.

1. Slow News Week
2. Offset Romney at NAACP Conf
3. Arguing Rob Portman vs Tim Pawlenty is boring
4. "Send the Obama campaign into a tizzy."
5. MY FAVORITE—"Somebody trying to make money on Intrade?"

Regarding number Four, Professor Althouse asks "Will they have to worry that she's more authentically black — American black — than Barack Obama?"  Shouldn't "Black" be capitalized?  [I wish this was the post-racial world some of us thought the Obama Presidency might usher in.]

Here is the view from the Anchoress, who thinks that she would be a major problem for the Democrats.

Let’s be frank. Condoleeza Rice is as qualified as anyone to be Vice President and would be a damn sight less buffoonish in the office than Joe Biden.  She is a graceful diplomat, a fine academic; she is knowledgeable, savvy, internationally experienced; with Putin ascending, her formidable understanding of Russia and the Russian mind and history could be invaluable.  The troops love her and would accept her as Commander-in-Chief.  In fact, Ms. Rice is a good deal more qualified to be president than perhaps either Mr. Romney — for all his business experience — or Mr. Obama, who nearly four years into the gig still seems not to have a handle on the office, its limits or its nuances, and who looks, increasingly, like a man who wishes it would all go away and let him play golf.

But, as Ms Elizabeth Scalia points out, she is a "woman" and the chance of her becoming the first woman president destroys the Democratic Party narrative arc.

Regards  —  Cliff