Condoleezza says she is not interested in running for VP. However, many are interested in her as VP!

Condoleezza Rice, in response to a question about running for VP she said, "I have always said that the one thing that I have not seen myself doing is running for elected office in the United States."

I personally think she should be considered strongly for the position.  I have further research to do before making a full commitment, however, at this point in time, I think she would make a strong running mate for Senator McCain.  She has foreign policy experience, she is extremely intelligent and she has a good base of conservative core values. 

She is from Birmingham, Alabama and grew up during the peak of the civil rights movement.  Her father had her use their home facilities instead of the undignified "colored" facilities in town.  He encouraged her work hard and raise herself above the racial ignorance of the time.  Speaking about her parents she said, "they refused to allow the limits and injustices of their time to limit our horizons."

Her father Rev. John Wesly Rice Jr., a Presbyterian Minister and a guidance counselor at Ullman High School , instilled in his daughter and students that black people would have to prove themselves worthy of advancement, and would simply have to be "twice as good" to overcome injustices built into the system.  Rice said “My parents were very strategic, I was going to be so well prepared, and I was going to do all of these things that were revered in white society so well, that I would be armored somehow from racism. I would be able to confront white society on its own terms.”

A former Democrat who turned Republican in 1984, Rice is a proponent of gun rights, stating her father would have been defensiveless at a time when the KKK was committing violent crimes towards blacks.

I think she is a strong woman and compliments John McCain.  I guess there would be a gap for economic expertise, but then again, if I were President, I wouldn't be counting on my VP as my economic advisor.  However, to her credit as Stanford University's Provost, Rice was responsible for managing the university's multi-billion dollar budget. The school at that time was running a deficit of $20 million. When Rice took office, she promised that the budget deficit would be balanced within "two years." Coit Blacker, Stanford's deputy director of the Institute for International Studies, said there "was a sort of conventional wisdom that said it couldn't be done ... that [the deficit] was structural, that we just had to live with it." Two years later, Rice announced that the deficit had been eliminated and the university was holding a record surplus of over $14.5 million.

Ok, the only red flag for me, for any politician, is their stand on abortion.  While Rice morally agrees with proponents of anti-abortion and certainly disagrees with late-term abortion, she says she would not want the federal government "forcing its views on one side or the other."  Abortion is an absolute deal breaker for me.  So in this respect, I need to get a more candid view on this subject.

Oh, and one more thing.  I wasn't even thinking about the obvious.  Those on the left may like the fact that she is a black woman!  However, while that is an interesting fact, I think she would make a good VP for all the other qualities she has.  Read more about her on the wiki.

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