If Condi Race Ran?

[Progressive]

Explain...what would her candidacy be like?

[dudeabides]

Let me first of all say that personally, it would be a very close call for me to choose between Jeb Bush and Condi Rice. She is smart, accomplished, a decisive leader, and she would have an easier time in a general election than anyone running right now.

She would hurt John Kasich most because those not supporting Bush looking for a center-right candidate would have her. She'd also take plenty of votes away from Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, and Jeb Bush. She'd even take advisers and perhaps donors away from Bush.

I also think she would take votes away from Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson. Let's remember that despite serving as Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, she also has never held elective office and would make the case that she's a political outsider.

The far right would never support her, but they also didn't support Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush Sr, Ford, you get the picture. She'd probably be the front-runner or at the very least, the runner-up to Trump and eventually, Bush's main challenger for the nomination.

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Yes, actually. She's exactly what the GOP needs from a demographic perspective (black/female), has a fairly good record in the Bush Admin, and has pretty popular positions among Republicans (not too moderate and not too far-right).

The question is - why isn't she running?

[Statilius the Epicurean]

She's pro-choice, so that destroys her candidacy.

[Progressive]

I just think the GOP wants big, bold, and outsider. Trump happens to fit that mold but so would Rice.

[Progressive]

She's pro-choice, so that destroys her candidacy.

I could easily see her having 'evolved,' especially post-PP videos.

[BM]

She has no interest, doesn't have bigoted enough social views for the party, and is even more tied to the Bush presidency than Jeb.

She'd be destroyed.

[dudeabides]

She has no interest, doesn't have bigoted enough social views for the party, and is even more tied to the Bush presidency than Jeb.

She'd be destroyed.

She will be tied to the Bush foreign policy, not his domestic policy. The only reason Hillary Clinton is tied to Obama's domestic policies is because after she left as Secretary of State, she embraced his policies AND we know where she stands on the economy given her record in the U.S. Senate. Condi Rice never held public office and can therefore express her views on domestic issues for the first time.

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She's pro-choice, so that destroys her candidacy.

I could easily see her having 'evolved,' especially post-PP videos.

This, and I'm pretty sure that during the Bush years she took more of a non-confrontational POV, so she could probably do that again.

[eric82oslo]

She should have chosen Nicky Haley as her running mate. That way she could have run on a sticky rice ticket.

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She should have chosen Nicky Haley as her running mate. That way she could have run on a sticky rice ticket.

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[yankeesfan]

Just imagine the race if Condi Race ran.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Maybe, but only if she ran as a pro-life candidate.

[MisSkeptic]

If Condoleezza Rice was running for president this election I wouldn't be surprised she would be more popular than the likes of Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, and majority of the other candidates. When I mentioned both Carson and Fiorina I wanted to bring up that she's a black female conservative who can really spearhead the competition; while presenting a non-white male alternative for the Republicans. 

[ag]

I could see her getting 2% in a few polls. May be even a couple of weeks closer to 5%. She would drop out right after NH, having come fourth there.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

She doesnt want it, it will expose her family life, she left politics altogether.

She is more of a Susan Rice politican.

[Maxwell]

Of course she wouldn't be the frontrunner, and anyone who thinks so doesn't understand the basics of GOP politics at the moment. She would be running a Huntsman-esqe campaign at best, and at worse, she'd be Pataki level.