RICE FOR PRESIDENT? | 2006-01-14
Congoleza, to no one's surprise, is being touted for president by Republicans.
Let me make you a few predictions about that.
Republicans will go absolutely into their glory at the idea of a black Republicans candidate, the way they always do.
As I keep saying (article below), there is nobody as deliriously happy as a respectable cosnervative who is outliberaling liberals. I have seen drug addicts after a huge fix who were not as high as Republicans were when they were talking about Powell for president.
Congoleza will play with them, but she, like Powell, has the persepective her dark skin gives her. She has not spent her entire political and academic life trying to prove to everybody else, and especially herself, that she is not a racist the way respectable conservatives have.
Powell said his wife convinced him of what he himself realized: if he were elected, he would have a better than fifty percent chance of being assasinated.
Not by a racist white. By a black or a Hispanic who believed he was a traitor, which is what their owners would tell them.